Episode 378: The Call Is Coming from Inside the Statehouse

National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

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Politics, News, National Review, Conservatism, Government, California, Conservative

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

JD Vance’s speech last week at the Munich Security Conference provides the theme of this week’s episode, tracking the ways in which California’s political establishment attacks freedom in order to preserve it. Bonus! Attorneys Julie Hamill and Jeff Schwab discuss California Policy Center’s lawsuit to block Newsom’s attempt to criminalize employer speech. Music by Metalachi.

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0:00.0	Bienvenitos. That's California for welcome to the February 17th edition of National Reviews, Radio Free California podcast.
0:20.1	I'm Will Swain, president of the California Policy Center.
0:23.3	You can find my colleagues and me at California PolicyCenter.org. You can find my friend and co-host,
0:28.3	David Bonson, right here. He's an economist, the host of the Capitol Record podcast, author of the
0:33.1	book full-time, work and the meaning of life. And of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment
0:37.2	firm, the Bonson Group. Hello, David. Hello, Will. Happy President's Day. Same to you, man.
0:43.2	All of them, I suppose, huh? I like that. I want to talk about one of those presidents here in just a
0:48.2	moment, Franklin, Delano Roosevelt. But first, the weather report. It looks beautiful and sunny
0:54.0	in the window behind you in New York City. It must be balmy.
0:59.5	Look, it's chilly outside. It's windy, but it is very sunny and very pretty. I love cold blue sky days.
1:08.0	Over the weekend, I flew back from Phoenix, very early Saturday morning. I'd been out
1:12.1	at our Phoenix office working a few days, and then it rained all of Saturday and Sunday and
1:18.0	snow came down. And, you know, first you kind of like the snow and everything, but then the gray
1:22.5	and the rain, it got a little old yesterday. And then to wake up today to this doesn't get any better.
1:29.4	It looks lovely. Mrs. Swaymanman i drove up to california central coast to hang out with friends for a couple of days over the
1:33.9	weekend in uh san lewis obispo county what a great town by the way um i you know i i do love a
1:40.8	university town despite the craziness that sometimes goes on at universities.
1:44.5	I've just, you know, the park like campuses, the young people, the energy, I just love it.
1:50.1	And, but it was boring, buckets of rain. And by the time we returned on Saturday, the freeway
1:57.6	was somewhat crowded, remarkably, for a Saturday way up there on the 101 and it turned
2:02.6	out it was because predictably you had the palisades mudflots coming down onto PCH and so
2:10.1	Pacific Coast Highway was blocked from you know mostly from Malibu down to Santa Monica so
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