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National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

Episode 396: Where All the Cholos At?

National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

National Review

Politics, News, National Review, Conservatism, Government, California, Conservative

4.8708 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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0:00.0

Bienvenidos, that's California for welcome to the July 1st edition of National Reviews, Radio Free California Podcasts.

0:19.1

I'm Will Swame, president of the California Policy

0:21.5

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

0:27.0

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

0:31.7

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

0:35.2

investment firm, the Bonson group hello david hello will

0:39.0

how are you my friend i'm good man uh hectic times you look like you're uh wearing beach wear is that

0:44.2

uh am i right about that no i'm not wearing beach wear just a polo shirt you look very sporty you

0:50.7

look really good thank you will that's so nice you to say.

0:59.9

You know, I always feel it. I just don't always say it. David, there is so much great stuff this week. It is an action-packed podcast ahead of us here. And I wanted to start with something

1:05.5

that I only just texted you. I'm so sorry about that. It's a list. I don't know if you followed this story, but the New York

1:12.6

Times just put out its list of the top 100 films of this century. And there's a few

1:18.6

California films in there. I wanted to note. And I try never to politicize these things, but there

1:24.7

is a bit of politics in here that you might expect, sort of just, you know, the politics of culture in identifying films that, as you get

1:32.3

closer to number one, they start at the countdown at 100 and they go down to one, obviously.

1:37.3

That's how you do those things.

1:38.7

Sorry about that.

1:40.3

But what was fascinating about it to me is as you get closer to one, the films are more

1:43.6

predictably kind of about class, race, ethnicity, social justice.

1:48.4

Not invariably.

1:49.7

There's some really great films in there.

1:52.1

And at 100 is the movie Super Bad, David?

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