Be envenitos. That's California for welcome to the October 14th 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, right over there across the table. He's an economist, the host of the Capitol Record podcast. He's author of the book, full-time, work and the meaning of life. And, of course, He's founder of the eponymous investment from the Bonson Group.

Hello, David.

Hello, Will.

How are you, sir?

I am frenetic. I'm good.

Great USC victory over Michigan. But you have some reservations yet about our guys.

Well, I have, yeah, I mean, look, the defense looked phenomenal on Saturday. I was at the game and I love

being on a stay at the game all the way through, uh, enjoying every moment. And what an incredible energy

in the Coliseum on Saturday night. I had my oldest son there with me and that's always really special.

And, um, he is also a wonderful trojan who embodies

the fight on spirit the um the michigan team didn't look that good to me that that true freshman

quarterback who i think they're paying 12 million dollars through nil didn't look great but he's a very

athletic kid and he's a true freshman,

so we'll see what happens there. The story of the night, though, is that USC's number three,

four, and six running backs were already injured, and our number one and two running backs,

both of whom could probably start for almost every

team in the country, both went down in the first half with game-ending injuries, and it appears

Eli Sanders is going to be out the rest of the year.

And we don't know yet for William and Jordan, how long he'll be out.

They put in a walk-in, a walk-on, running back.

No scholarship.

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