Episode 391: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Banality
National Review's Radio Free California Podcast
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4.8 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Behanvenitos, that's California for welcome to the May 20th edition of National Reviews, Radio Free California Podcast, |
| 0:18.6 | and a special happy birthday wish to listeners, Andrew, and Dave, today, May 20th. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm Will Swain, President of the California Policy Center. You can find my colleagues and me at |
| 0:28.7 | California PolicyCenter.org. You can find my friend and co-host, David Bonson, right here. He's an economist, |
| 0:33.8 | the host of the Capitol Record podcast. He's author of the book Full Time, Work and the Meaning of Life. |
| 0:38.9 | And, of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment firm, the Bonson Group. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello, David. |
| 0:43.4 | Hello, Will. |
| 0:44.2 | How are you, sir? |
| 0:45.4 | I'm good, man. |
| 0:46.4 | It's lovely out here. |
| 0:48.3 | Looks like it's lovely in New York. |
| 0:50.2 | And I saw the picture you sent to a bunch of our friends and me. I guess I will include myself and |
| 0:56.1 | your friends. And you at the Knicks game last week. Is that right? I went to a couple. I was there for |
| 1:02.5 | game three with my son where after New York had stolen both games in Boston, there was a lot of hope |
| 1:10.4 | they'd come back and beat them game three and get |
| 1:12.7 | ready for a sweep. They ended up losing game three, but then winning game four. And I got to watch |
| 1:20.8 | the second half of game four, but I had a dinner meeting that night so it couldn't go to the game. |
| 1:26.0 | Then they go to Boston for game five and lose. |
| 1:29.3 | So then you start to say okay are they going to be all right here. |
| 1:33.3 | They come back to New York for game six up three to two, haven't been to the conference finals since 1999. |
| 1:41.3 | And I go on Friday night with my good friend Mark Halprin of Two-Way for those who have not |
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