Thank you,

That's California for welcome to the May 26th 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 PolicyCenter.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 and the meaning of life. And of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment

firm, the Bonson Group. Hello, David. Hello, Will. Happy Memorial Day. Same to you. Did you do

anything thrilling yesterday, Indy 500, Pacers, Knicks? I did watch Pacers Nix and I'm going to admit something.

Because remember, the one thing, I've said this many times, the one thing that I

like about California more than New York is the sports times on television. Because, you know,

I'm a very early morning guy. And some of these games that aren't getting done to like 11, 11.30 at

night, it's past my bedtime.

And also, I've been so just borderline depressed. I mean, the Knicks had the word, it was the worst choke in NBA history.

You know, up by 14 with about two minutes to go in game one of the Eastern Conference Finals,

up by nine with like 40-something seconds.

And Indiana hit like six three-pointers

in the last two minutes,

and the Knicks missed two free throws down the stretch.

Then Indiana hit a shot at the buzzer

to go into overtime and beat them.

So game one was depressing in Madison square

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