Joe Hernandez is an NPR "reporter" whose stories get picked up by lots of NPR affiliate stations. This one happened to be picked up by NPR in Boise. He is not confusing Idaho and California, although both end in "a" and that can be confusing to radical idiots.
Here's Joe, true believer...
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