All Episodes
The Drain — 87 episodes
Socialists humiliate NYC Democrats, with Peter Lucas
*Preview* Solo en Sivar
Ballot dump: no votes refused
*Special* Prattlefornia: how the Left is faring this election
Getting out the meemaw vote, with Robin Epley
*UNLOCKED* The curious federal case of Sean "Baby" Loloee
*Preview* Busting the trust
Heidi Hall for Congress (with Heidi Hall)
*Preview* Yogi Becerra
CSUEU President Catherine Hutchinson's baffling union-busting bullshit
Building a Bitter California (or, the battle of the billionaires)
*Preview* The curious federal case of Sean "Baby" Loloee
"I see a broken California!" (Rafael Hernandez for governor?)
Swal's well that ends swell ?
*Preview* The Sacramento Bee stings Doris Matsui
California's presidential hopefuls and the perfidious Turk
*Preview* The Drain🕳️'s official 'Why?' Combinator Challenge
California's broken representative democracy, with Caledon Myers of the ProRep Coalition
*Preview* Show hole (Hole show)
Drainiversary episode!
*Preview* LEAVE. BRITNEY. ALONE.
Connie Chan for Congress (with Connie Chan)
*Preview* Eric Swalwangelou
Open the schools, with "Tommy"
Kevin Kiley needs a home
Mayors gone wild/corporate/AWOL
*Preview* Last of the Mujicas
Nothing new under the California sun
Ro Khanna outshines Newsom on ICE, billionaire tax
*Preview* The state of Gavin Newsom's presidential prospects
California's response (and oil ties) to the kidnapping of ~Venezuenian~ president Nicolás Maduro
California says f*ck ICE, and Sacramento's lay of the legislative land
The Drain's🕳️ unimpeachable 2026 Hot or Not rundown
San Francisco's drone wars
*Preview* Wall Street shorts AI, and the murder-suicide case targeting OpenAI
The California GOP's death rattle
*Preview* Cooking the books in CA homeless counts
The Murdoch family's power grab in the city of Little Angels
UNLOCKED - Backpage, the fall of alt weeklies, and how Kamala Harris caused a suicide
*Preview* Timeshare grifter Cloobeck backs Swalwell for governor; Maviglio's legal defense fundraiser; Progressive Connie Chan joins race for Pelosi's seat
Lady Bird Boys, with Peter Lucas
*Preview* Berkeley boots Turning Point USA
Federal charges against Newsom and Becerra's former chiefs of staff, and SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's animal house bungle
San Francisco musical chairs, with the 48 Hills crew (Tim Redmond and Marke B.)
043 - AHNOLD goes AWOL, and Gavin's email collection scheme
042 - ICE operations heat up, plus a California potpourri of updates
*Preview* 041 - Graham Platner face-plants
040 - California's CARE Court failures, and MAGA Huntington Beach's soon-to-be progressive congressman
*Preview* 039 - USC v. Donald Trump
038 - Katie Porter's crash-outs, and Dr. Pan eyes a congressional seat
*Preview* 037 - The ultimate man-cave grift
036 - California's conversion therapy loophole, and Governor Newsom is grilled by ConnorEatsPants on Fortnite Friday
*Preview* 035 - Governor Newscum takes on economic nihilism and gamer culture
034 - The progressive push to oust California's neoliberal Congress members
*Preview* 033 - SMUD narcs on its California customers
032 - Chuck remembrance and Newsom bills
031 - California blue (a redistricting story)
030 - Have It Your Way (with Josh Rosa of Better Ballot Sacramento)
029 - A new poll on California sovereignty, with Coyote Marin
*Preview* 028 - Rogue benches in San Francisco
027 - Large Gorgeous William and the Golden State
*Preview* 026 - The Latino Vote on the leftist playbook
025 - Do not come-dani: Islamophobia hits the California legislature, plus Zohran's win
*Preview* The Plug 024 - Asm. Carl DeMaio's anti-trans diatribe interrupted by Democratic birthdays
The Drain 023 - Billionaire, crypto, and Zionist funding for California Democrats
*Preview* The Plug 022 - Mr. 1950 Seduces the Sandwich Caller Live on Air
The Drain 021 - Californians naming and shaming ICE agents; how state Dems in Congress are handling Israel-Iran; CA budget watch updates
The Drain 019 - The inexorable march toward a Musk-Newsom alliance
*Preview* The Plug 018 - Rep. Ro Khanna's ill-advised 2028 presidential trial balloon
The Drain 017 - The RICO case against the Stop Cop City 61, with Priscilla Grim
*Preview* The Plug 016 - Drugs abroad
The Drain 015 - Newsom's California budget: Prison closures, Ozempic cuts, Hollywood tax credits, and ending Medi-Cal for undocumented residents
*Preview* The Plug 014 - Backpage, the fall of alt weeklies, and how Kamala Harris caused a suicide
The Drain 013 - Assemblymember Maggy Krell's bad-faith sex trafficking bill
*Preview* The Plug 012 - Qué Hilaria
The Drain 011 - AI in CA
The Drain 010 - California Independence, with Coyote Marin of the Independent California Institute
The Drain 009 - On Nayib Bukele's "tropical gulag" and El Salvador
The Drain 008 - Kamala Harris eyes the Governor's Mansion
The Drain 007 - There Will Be Jakes, with Hesse Deni
The Drain 006 - "Poverty porn" peddlers and the billionaires who love them, with Marke B.
The Drain 005 - Bluer skies
*Preview* The Drain 004 - UC students under attack (Part 2/2)
The Drain 003 - UC students under attack (Part 1/2)
The Drain 002 - A #Resistance in entropy
The Drain 001 - Kirk cucks Newsom
The Drain 000 - Introductions with Kempa and Sweet Palma