California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics

The episode discusses rising Republican voter registrations in California, spending on Prop 50 ads, and SB 771's impact on free speech.

Host Phil and co-host interview Newport Beach Mayor Will O'Neill on the California Underground Podcast.

Hosts Phil and Camille explore political corruption in California, focusing on secretive spending and lack of oversight.

Eric Swalwell went from saying he would not drop out on Friday to resigning from Congress by Monday, after a San Francisco Chronicle report on a former staffer’s allegations and a new accuser’s press conference.

Philip opens a California Underground roundtable on the California governor’s race with Kyle Campbell and Susan Collins, with less than two months before the primary and uncertainty over who will reach the general election.

Phil introduces Tom Woodard on California Underground as a 2026 libertarian candidate for governor, with the episode opening on $24 billion spent on homelessness, the nation’s highest gas prices, and uncertainty about who will lead California next.

Screenwriter Jim Agnew discusses how California's policies have led to Hollywood's decline and the exodus of film production to other states like New Jersey.

Host Phil discusses hospice care fraud in California, the Sable offshore pipeline, and teacher layoffs due to lack of funding.

California Underground hosts Phil and Camille interview Elaine Culotti, a Pacific Palisades fire survivor and no-party-preference candidate for California governor, who argues that 41% of California voters are already NPP and that the state's $265 billion budget is existentially threatened by billionaire flight and NGO fraud.

California Underground hosts Phil and Camille interview Herb Morgan, a candidate for California State Controller who spent 39 years in finance including nine years at Cantor Fitzgerald under Howard Lutnick, on why the state controller is constitutionally more powerful than the governor in fiscal matters.

The episode discusses California's creative legal strategies against ICE and the entry of San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan into the gubernatorial race.

Assemblyman David Tangipa discusses the ongoing legal battle to overturn Prop 50 and addresses fraud, waste, and abuse in Sacramento.

The host discusses a potential Gavin Newsom vs.

Former Congressman Mike Garcia joins the California Underground Podcast to discuss redistricting and Proposition 50 ahead of the upcoming election.