Bienvinidos, that's California for welcome to the June 17th 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 Policy Center.org. David Bonson's

traveling today and in his place is the inimitable other will, Will O'Neill, that's right, two

wills here at once, one of whom served as mayor of Newport Beach two times and is now the chairman

of the Republican Party of Orange County. Welcome, Will. Thank you very much. Always a pleasure to have you here. Later in the show, I'll be

talking with our attorney. That's Julie Hamill, about California's response to the Trump administration's

promise to defund California schools if they continue allowing boys to compete in girls' sports.

And then we'll hear from Lance Christensen on the state's looming budget crisis.

Will, where would you like to start?

We've got June 19th coming up.

Are you a celebrant?

Do you mark the day?

I don't, but I actually think that that's one of those days.

People probably should.

I mean, it's, yeah, the history on that has been celebrated by Republicans

in Texas for quite some time. And so it's one of those days that probably is trying to be

redefined right now by people on the far left, but ending slavery is always a good thing.

Yes, I agree. The guy who was the architect of that slavery ending war was martyred for it, of course.

I'm speaking about Abraham Lincoln.

And I was reading the California Reparations Commission's report on why we ought to have,

you know, trying to establish the,

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