376: Will Swaim—An Unholy Incubator

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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The President of the California Policy Center, host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast, and watchdog journalist warns about the new federal regulation that effectively makes CA-AB5 national and ends independent contractor status as we know it. As goes California, so goes the nation—from a $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers to rampant homelessness, crime, and reparations—the recovering communist dissects examples of what’s happening in the Golden State and yet to come nationally.

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0:00.0	And here we go again with another episode of the way I heard it.
0:06.9	This is number 376.
0:09.7	And Chuck, I don't know if you've heard this.
0:11.8	Right on the border of being official, we're changing the slogan of California from the golden state to an unholy incubator.
0:21.6	And which happens to be the title of this episode.
0:27.1	Actually, it's all backwards.
0:28.5	It is called an unholy incubator this episode.
0:31.2	Who knows?
0:31.8	Maybe it will become the motto or the slogan for California because that's what I'm
0:35.9	afraid my adoptive home has become.
0:39.0	Fans of this podcast know that Will Swame has been on before to help stop the
0:45.9	encroachment of this horrible assembly bill called AB5, which turned into this horrible
0:52.7	proposition before Congress called the Pro Act, which just
0:56.8	became law yesterday. Correction. The Pro Act hasn't become law. On March 15th, the Federal
1:04.8	government implemented regulations that essentially make the Pro Act. Without making it a law, they've made it active.
1:14.3	Rose by any other name, this really bad idea is about to impact 70 million freelancers.
1:22.7	So now really the goal is to try and get it reversed. People are going to start to see what's going
1:28.4	on here and they're not going to like it. They're not going to like it at all. So I wanted to at least
1:34.2	kind of close the loop on that. So Will Swame is back with us to try and figure out what to do. But of
1:40.8	course, he's Will Swain. So we talk about a lot of other stuff too. And it's actually
1:45.0	a really fun conversation. In fact, Chuck, I know we normally don't do this, but I think we
1:49.0	should begin the podcast before it actually begins so people can be treated to a minute or two
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