California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics

Booking Overview

This is a California politics analysis show focused on state and local policy, elections, ballot measures, taxation, and government accountability, with mostly host-led episodes and occasional interviews or roundtables featuring political officials and candidates. Credible pitches include California elected officials, candidates, party leaders, campaign participants, and policy experts with direct knowledge of the issues under discussion; booking difficulty is likely medium because guests need relevant California political experience but need not be nationally prominent.

Metrics

Episodes: 382

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.1/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Listener location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

californiaunderground@protonmail.com

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

California political candidates, elected officials, party leaders, campaign participants, and policy experts with direct knowledge of state or local issues

Required Achievements:

Leadership of a California political organization, Direct involvement in California elections, ballot measures, or public policy

Recent Guest Discussions

Will O'Neill - California Voter Identification And Citizenship Verification, Proposition 39, And Proposition 5 Recall Reform

Recent Topics

Politics, California Politics, Elections, Public Policy, Government Accountability

Episodes

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California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics

The Debate Breakdown: What Becerra Didn't Answer

October 07, 2026

play-by-play of the CNN debate between Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton, candidates for California governor. Phil goes through the debate exchange by exchange, tracking whether each answer included something checkable, whether it ended at Trump, and whether the question was answered. Hilton's numbers get checked too. This is Phil's opinion, with the documents behind it.Nothing here is a voting recommendation. Check the documents and decide for yourself.For Phil's book on California...

Bonta Caves to Newsom on Paramount Deal

October 01, 2026

California's Attorney General sued to block a $111 billion media merger — then settled it after Newsom, Bass, and Becerra personally pushed him to fold. The deal is being sold as a win for California jobs. It doesn't actually require a single one of those jobs to be in California.This episode: the fine print behind the Paramount-Warner Bros. settlement and what it really protects; why Nithya Raman's 11-point lead over Karen Bass sits next to a City Council vote against LAPD Olympi...

Ghost Homeless: LA's $118M Fraud, the Rail Nightclub, and California's AI Land Grab

September 23, 2026

Three stories this week, one pattern: public money and public land moving to insiders through systems with almost no oversight.First — a Los Angeles nonprofit took in $118 million in public funds to house homeless people. Prosecutors say $12 million of it went to a nightclub, luxury travel, and vintage cars. But the detail that doesn't make the headline: some of the people the system reported as "housed" were fabricated. Fake welcome letters, forged sign-in sheets, ghost clients...

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