Podcast Episodes

Episode 417: Laundering Lunacy

Episode 417

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 a…

Published on 2 hours ago

Episode 416: Prop. Fiddy (Emergency Episode!)

Episode 416

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 Pe…

Published on 4 days, 5 hours ago

Episode 415: Shafting Shafter

Episode 415

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 ot…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Episode 414: Did the New York Times Just End Scott Wiener?

Episode 414

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-traffickin…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Episode 413: Newsom 2028!

Episode 413

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 …

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Episode 412: Porter Potty

Episode 412

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.

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Published on 4 weeks ago

Episode 411: The Kamala Kleanup Kontinues

Episode 411

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.

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Published on 1 month ago

Episode 410: Like Phonics Rising from the Ashes

Episode 410

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…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Episode 409: The Week in California in a Single Sentence

Episode 409

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 …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Episode 408: Despite Kirk’s Killing, Newsom Cranks Up the Rhetoric to 11

Episode 408

Gavin Newsom said all the right things about Charlie Kirk, but returned immediately to form with his claims that Donald Trump has unleashed his “private police force” in a campaign of “racial terror”…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago