Bienvenitos. That's California for welcome to the October 1st 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 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, author of the book, full-time work and the meaning of life. And of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment from the Bunsen Group. Hello, David. Hello, Will. How are you, my friend? I'm great. Thank you. How's New York?

October 1 today recording. And it is just beautiful. Quintessential, fall weather, love it.

It was actually, as I was running in Central Park this morning, it was a little bit cold.

I had the most fascinating word there is you running. I didn't know you were a runner. See, I've

known you all this time and I did not know you go outside in the world and run. Every single

day in my life. Wow. Without exception. But thanks for taking an interest.

You're like a... By the way, well, you did know that because you've complimented me and asked me about 10 times about all the weight I've lost and every time I've told you about my workout routine.

So now I'm a little worried about... Have you been taking a lot of Tylenol?

There you go. It's got to be that.

Is that affecting your memory?

I'm sure it is.

It's a weird thing.

It's made me pregnant.

So we have a lot to get to.

Later in the show, I'm going to talk to Mark Jaffe about financial misdoings up in

the Capitol.

And I wanted to tell you, David, I don't know if I mentioned it. Did I tell you I was on NPR last week? You did not tell me on NPR last week.

Yeah, really fascinating. I was asked a couple of weeks ago if I'd like to come on their show.

They have a kind of a podcast called Left, Right, and Center. Rich Lowry is on it

frequently. And so they had me sitting in on the right. That sort of makes sense, I guess.

And on the left was a wonderful Atlantic writer whom I've actually admired for, I think, her

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