Welcome to us.

Welcome to the March 20th edition of National Review's Radio Free California podcast.

I'm Will Swain, president of the California Policy

Center. You can find my colleagues and me at California PolicyCenter.org. Funny how it works out

that way. You can find my friend and co-host David Bonson right here. He's an economist, the host of

the Capitol Record podcast, author of full-time work in the meaning of life. And of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment

firm, the Bonson Group. Hello, David. Hello, Will. Good to be with you from our nation's capital.

Yes, and you are there with our friends from National Review. I am. We had a board meeting yesterday

afternoon. I spoke at a church in Virginia last night on my book full-time and the meaning of work.

And now National Review is doing their ideas summit all day, today, and tomorrow.

I'm speaking this afternoon on a panel on religious liberty and a panel tomorrow on the economy,

alongside the great Amity Schles and the great

Pat Toomey, former senator in Pennsylvania. So it's a wonderful event with wonderful people,

and I wish you were here. Yeah, I wish I could be there too. Hey, are we going to acting this year?

You're crazy if you don't go. I'm speaking and I will host you, my friend. Please.

Always such a pleasure. It's like going back to school for a brief spurt, but it's all fun and really, I don't know, just remarkable, refreshing to hear the great ideas from all over the world at Acton Institute.

So we'll catch up on that in a moment.

But David, there is so much going on right here in California.

I was up to my classic.

You'll see that I think I've sent you at least two iterations of the run list.

That's down now to about 12 items from 47, I think I had just yesterday. So lots of things having to go by the byway.

But I wanted to point out something that's happening here in California. Here's from the San Francisco

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