Bienvenidos. That's California for welcome to the April 2nd edition of National Reviews Radio Free California podcast.

I'm Will Swain, president of the California Policy

Center. You can find my colleagues and me at California Policy Center.org. You can find my friend

and co-host David Bonson right here. He's an economist, the host of the Capital Record podcast,

the author of full-time, work in the meaning of life, and of course he's founder of the now

10-year-old investment firm, the Bonson Group. Hello, David, and happy anniversary.

Well, yeah, 10 years as our independence, like our 1776, because much like the colonies,

we existed before 10 years ago, but we were under the man, under King George III actually King George Morgan of

Stanley and you know that was that was a great experience there great time so the

Bonson Group as a brand existed but as a business we're 10 years old today and this studio

would not exist if it were not for that evolution in our business and professional life,

nor would this podcast exist.

Yeah.

Because Morgan would not tolerate me going on air.

As a representative of the firm, I was a managing director at Morgan, and me coming on and

saying the utterly shocking things, or just you saying what you say about Scott Weiner.

I mean, I would just, if Morgan, I'd

have to go defend him. I'd be, I had the pro monkey pox position. Oh my gosh, the pro monkey pox

position. I won't say anything more. You know, what's also fun is that we get to sit in an office

where I'm dressed

like a rancher and you and Brian are engineer, Brian Tong, both look like English country nobleman.

I was going to say that you're dressed like a rancher and we dress like adults, but English nobleman,

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