Thank you, that's California, for welcome to the July 15th edition of National Review's Radio Free California podcast.

I'm Will Swain, president of the California Policy Center.

Breathe.

You can find my colleagues and me at California PolicyCenter.org.

You'd ordinarily find me here, of course, with our friend David Bonson.

But in his place is David's friend in mine, that John Lovitz of Limited Government, my friend,

John Fleischman. John is a veteran of California politics.

He's been involved in hundreds of campaigns at the national, state, and local level.

He's the founder and publisher. For many people, this is your high watermark, John Flash Report.

That's where I discovered John back in the, was it really 2000s? Is it possible?

It's entirely possible. Yeah. And you now today, this, I mean, as of what, four or five

months ago, you share your deep thought, speaking of John Lovitz. He didn't do that, but, you know,

SNL references at So Does It Matter.com. That's John's substack. John, welcome to the show.

I guess I need to give you some John Lovitz.

You think I put everything there?

So yeah, that's a ticket.

That's a ticket.

So.

Ah, nobody does it better.

So, yeah, I used to write prolifically on California policy and politics for years. and then, you know, we had kids, and I had to decide, could I be all things to all people?

And so focused on the home front. But one day I woke up and both of my kids are in high school and really don't prefer to hang out with their dad that much anyway.

So I started writing. So it's, yeah, it's www.

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