Bienvenitos. That's California for welcome to the August 22nd 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 Policy Center.org. You can find my friend and co-host, David Bonson right here. He's an economist, the host of the Capital Record podcast, and author of the book, full-time, work in the meaning of life. And of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment firm, the Bonson Group. Hello, David. Hello, Will. How are you, sir? I'm good. We're recording this on Friday,

August 22nd. It's a very busy day, but this will probably not be available to listeners until next week. And by then, this will be history. So let's talk about this in the past tense. Here's

what happened in the world.

We have so many things to get to, David, but I'd like to start with a story on which you have an

uncanny intimacy with, a detailed familiarity. And that is the probation hearings of Eric and Lyle

Menendez, the headline out of yesterday's

probation hearing, Eric Menendez, to remain in prison after decision by California Parole Board.

His brother is his case is being heard today.

So as we speak, they're apparently already undergoing that hearing.

So what's the deal here? And I'm going to

guess you generally affirm the Probation Board's decision. I affirm the decision. I do not

affirm the reason. And the long article in the early times, I hope you'll put in the show notes

so people could read. It essentially looks to me like they said, hey uh you were convicted of double homicide and sentenced

to life in prison with no chance of parole so why are we having a parole hearing for people

sentenced to no chance of parole we could change a sentence but that's what they were sentenced to

so it already drives me bonkers then Then you add to that, the layer that, well, the reason we want to re-look at this is because, you know, it looks, you know, they really had some bad parents, which is just simply untrue. Now, when I say didn't have bad parents, maybe the dad was mean or yelled at them at soccer games or something. There's some of those stories are out there, and we've had to look into that. It's pretty heavy. He kind of asked his son to run faster and get better grades at Princeton. Bad dad. The word is that they were going to cut him out of the will because he was failing out of Princeton and the dad was mad. I don't know if the dad was abrasive guy or not.

I can't stand people that talk ill of the dead with no evidence.

And nobody in these people's lives believed they were molested.

Nobody.

There was no evidence.

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