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National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast

National Review

A show about the perilous state of the Golden State—and what that means for you, wherever you live. California is the hothouse lab of the Left, the nation-state creating the statist policies, art, and lifestyles of the future – and generating the political dollars to make them a reality in a community near you. Hosts Will Swaim (California Policy Center) and David Bahnsen (The Bahnsen Group, Fox Business News commentator, conservative activist) beam this weekly show internationally, from mostly

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01:53:18

Episode 428: Minnesota and the Battle of Century City

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2026/01/27

In Minneapolis, Trump walked into a trap designed by California union activists and perfected in their bloody showdown with the Los Angeles Police Department in 1990: Provoke law enforcement into violent behavior, broadcast the images, and win political concessions. In other news: Trump uses his bully pulpit to beat up Newsom on gasoline prices and wildfire relief. The Atlantic concludes Newsom’s record of failed governance won’t work with a national audience. Bonus tracks! Lance Christensen reviews

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00:56:26

Episode 427: Tower of Babble

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2026/01/23

Governor Newsom traveled to Davos for a verbal death-match with President Trump before an audience of shocked political leaders, business execs, and economists. Back in California, Team Newsom attempts to spin a disastrous homelessness report. Will and David take a moment to celebrate R&B great Johnny Otis, born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes in Vallejo, Calif., in 1921. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow

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01:42:05

Episode 426: Newsom’s On-Again, Off-Again Wall Street...

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2026/01/14

In his annual State of the State address, Governor Gavin Newsom blamed “private equity firms in Manhattan” for the state’s housing crisis, and then credited the rise in tech stocks with saving the state budget. In other news: Julie Su is now New York City’s problem, State Senator Scott Wiener wants San Francisco to confiscate Pacific Gas & Electric because the city has done so well with the open-air drug trade, and California AG Rob Bonta is on a losing streak in federal court. Bonus! Finance

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00:57:33

Episode 425: The White House Is Newsom’s to Lose

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2026/01/08

California is in chaos: wildfires, unemployment fraud, a train to nowhere, high energy costs, lousy public education, and a California exodus that includes billionaires and working people piling their personal effects into U-Haul trailers bound for Texas. David and Will discuss why none of that will likely matter in 2028. Bonus! Will travels back nearly 500 years to the rise and fall of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo -- the first European to set foot in California and to be buried there. Music by

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00:29:58

Emergency Episode: Federal Judge Schools California...

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/12/23

California Justice Center attorney Emily Rae explains Judge Roger Benitez’s blistering rebuke of California policies that encourage school officials, including teachers, to lie to parents about students’ changing gender identity. Benitez on Monday said state AG Rob Bonta's defense of those policies has constitutional law “upside down.” The judge also ordered state officials to notify parents and guardians of their constitutional right to be informed -- and of teachers to inform them -- “when the

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01:32:55

Episode 423: The End of the Year As We Know It

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/12/23

In their annual Year in Review, David and Will consider Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump, TikTok, Sean Penn, Nathan Hochman, the Turtle Island Liberation Front, Karen Bass, Julie Hamill, the Oakland A’s, Nancy Pelosi, the Los Angeles Times, Kamala Harris, Ivanpah Solar, the SEIU, Prop 50, Leonardo DiCaprio, the Beach Boys, Julie Su, One Battle After Another, fire, AB 218, Larry Ellison, homeless people, Lyle Menendez, Bill Essayli, Zizians, ExxonMobil, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Wiener Watch, Brian Wilson,

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00:57:34

Episode 422: ‘I See Trans Kids’

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/12/17

In March, Gavin Newsom told the late Charlie Kirk that male athletes competing against females is “deeply unfair.” This week, on Ezra Klein's podcast, he told a very different story. Will and David discuss the great movies and misguided politics of the late Rob Reiner, and the role of Greg Bahnsen in David’s life. The FBI arrests four members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front who hoped to bomb multiple Los Angeles targets on New Year's Eve. Music by Metalachi.Email

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01:03:18

Episode 421: Newsom to Dems: ‘Be More Normal’

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/12/09

Governor Gavin Newsom spent much of last week in New York City, criticizing Wall Street, Democrats, SEIU, and Trump at a New York Times books conference -- and then went begging for handouts in D.C. with predictable results. Back home in California, things got less normal. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:America 250: Presidential Message on the Anniversary of the Monroe DoctrineNewsom Warns

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00:53:45

Episode 420: The Noise Behind Newsom’s Very Quiet Week

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/12/03

California Governor Gavin Newsom did almost nothing this week. But if you listen carefully, you can hear the state budget crashing and his erstwhile allies beginning to rebel. Bonus! Two hundred and seven years ago this month, a French-born pirate attacked California and broke the back of the Spanish empire. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:Gov. Newsom orders Capitol flags to fly at half-staff

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00:40:02

Episode 419: Low-Energy Gavin Newsom

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/11/24

California Policy Center policy genius Edward Ring discusses California’s coming energy crisis -- and why he sees signs of hope. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:The Belem-to-Bakersfield pipelineNew drilling and more spilling? New oil and gas drilling threatens Central Coast Gas lines coming to CaliforniaOil extraction reduces methane seepageSilicon Valley’s growing anti-woke, pro-abundance

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01:20:56

Episode 418: Totally Consistent Lunatics

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/11/20

Gavin Newsom runs into Brazilian protestors in the Amazon, while back home his former chief of staff faces federal charges that she stole millions. The U.S. DOJ sues California over Prop 50; Harmeet Dhillon promises to investigate Berkeley’s anti-Turning Point USA protest; and why unions love environmentalists. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:Big Ten's $2.4 billion private capital plan paused

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00:56:12

Episode 417: Laundering Lunacy

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/11/11

Following his big Prop 50 win last week, Governor Gavin Newsom hit the road, denouncing the Democrats’ deal to end the federal shutdown, accepting the thanks of worshipful Democrats in Houston, and appearing as the highest-ranking American representative at the U.N.’s climate talks in Brazil. In other news, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and OpenAI’s Sam Altman say they feel bad about making so much money, Santa Barbara County officials stand bravely athwart common sense and yell stop, and a

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00:41:49

Episode 416: Prop. Fiddy (Emergency Episode!)

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/11/07

Jon Fleischman steps into this emergency episode to break down Governor Gavin Newsom's gangsta moves in pushing Proposition 50 over the finish line. In other news, we consider Representative Nancy Pelosi’s just-announced retirement, and the rise (again) of antisemitism. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:Jon Fleischman’s “So Does it Matter?” podcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See

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00:59:01

Episode 415: Shafting Shafter

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/11/03

More than $100 billion over budget and five years late, Governor Newsom’s high-speed rail project has settled on a new strategy: shortcuts -- including one through the middle of Shafter, Calif. In other news: The secret life of NYC’s David Bahnsen, Newsom tells ABC’s Jonathan Karl he’s a border hawk, we remember the 1947 flight of Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose, and what Ronald Reagan said about tariffs that Ronald Reagan Presidential Library officials can’t remember. Music by Metalachi.Email

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01:29:16

Episode 414: Did the New York Times Just End Scott...

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/10/28

State Senator Scott Wiener is angling for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat but a New York Times magazine investigation links Wiener’s 2022 “Safer Streets for All Act” to a boom in the sex-trafficking of children in California. In other news: Newsom matches Trump in the theatrical use of National Guardsmen, the Los Angeles school teacher who called for armed resistance to immigration enforcement, the “Wealth Tax” makes a California comeback, and how I Love Lucy changed television and the world

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01:05:51

Episode 413: Newsom 2028!

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/10/23

He is among the nation’s very worst governors, but Gavin Newsom is among America’s most skillful politicians — and has the inside track on the race for the White House. In other news, bombs bursting in air (at the Marine Corps' anniversary celebration starring JD Vance), the California Faculty Association is ready to fight fascists (but first wants to know if you're a Jew), Nancy Pelosi is still alive (and maybe not a fan of State Senator Scott Wiener), and the Pioneer League's Ballers bring a

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00:57:35

Episode 412: Porter Potty

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/10/14

David and Will consider gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter’s trouble with humans and the prospect of co-parenting your kids with Governor Gavin Newsom. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:How Berkeley Became the First City to Ditch Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples DaySonoma State president on leave for ‘insubordination’ after supporting anti-Israel boycott, divestmentA California Campus Brings

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01:02:54

Episode 411: The Kamala Kleanup Kontinues

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/10/09

California Democrats can now safely begin the work of tearing down Kamala Harris’s memory, beginning with her controversial bill to punish the parents of their truant kids. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific PalisadesGavin Newsom ends Kamala Harris' California anti-truancy lawKamala Harris was not a ‘progressive

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01:21:29

Episode 410: Like Phonics Rising from the Ashes

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/10/02

Facing a 40-year decline in reading scores, California lawmakers have concluded that it’s time to ask -- politely -- that the state’s K–12 teachers to return to phonics. Bonus: Marc Joffe talks about the deep meaning of Gavin Newsom’s repeated failure to produce accurate state financials. Music by Metalachi.Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:Will on NPR’s Left, Right & CenterTrump administration being asked to

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00:49:47

Episode 409: The Week in California in a Single Sentence

National Review"s Radio Free California Podcast ·

2025/09/24

Gavin Newsom appeared with Stephen Colbert to celebrate Jimmy Kimmel’s return to ABC programming, even as the governor works to silence California’s conservative voters in a redistricting initiative that (polling shows) is headed toward a slim victory on November 4 -- and despite Princeton University’s conclusion that the new electoral map earns Newsom an “F.” In other news, Will talks about the surprising origins of ABC’s 1950s deal to fund the construction of Disneyland in exchange for content,

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