Episode 32: The Hermit Kingdom of California

A demonstrator carries a sign in a picket line in support of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers strike, outside Lake Merritt Station in Oakland, California, October 18, 2013. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)

Episode 201: Newsom’s Cabo Controversy

December 2, 2021

French Laundry, the Getty Wedding, and now a family vacation in a Mexican resort remind us that our governor is auditorily challenged where political tone is involved.

Episode 200: Mobbery in San Francisco

November 23, 2021

Mobs of thieves rob Bay Area stores, but California’s conservative counties are peaceful.

Episode 199: A Fast-Food Dictatorship of the Proletariat

November 17, 2021

Lorena Gonzalez, author of the infamous A.B. 5, is at it again, this time with an effort to unionize fast-food workers by extraordinary means.

Episode 198: French Laundry 2: The Getty Afterparty!

November 10, 2021

Governor Newsom canceled his flight to Glasgow’s climate meet-up and then appeared at the lavish wedding of oil-heiress Ivy Getty — and then magically makes natural gas ‘carbon neutral.’

Episode 197: ‘Punching the Golden Goose in the Mouth’

November 5, 2021

San Francisco finds new and interesting ways to kill people and opportunities, and Xavier Becerra takes California’s most lethal drug policies national on the Joe Biden Medicine Show.

Episode 196: The Ghost in California’s Political Machine

October 28, 2021

In this special Halloween edition of RFC, David and Will consider the materialization of Psychomagnotheric Slime throughout California politics

Episode 195: Profiles in (Executive) Courage

October 21, 2021

Netflix execs handle/mishandle an employee walkout over the streaming service’s latest Dave Chappelle special.

Episode 194: Mind If We Smoke?

October 14, 2021

Government mismanagement of California’s forests is making Americans everywhere sick.

Episode 193: Oil, Academic Toil, and FBI Trouble

October 7, 2021

U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland pours gasoline on the fire of public debate around masks, vaccines, and racial reckoning in the nation’s public schools.

Episode 192: Gavin Newsom’s Theater of Pain

September 28, 2021

Governor Newsom uses communities incinerated by wildfire to promote climate-change policies that will do little to mitigate the impact of decades of bad forest management.