Bienvenitos. That's California for welcome to the December 2nd edition of National Review's Radio Free California podcast.

I'm Will Swain, president to the California Policy Center. Actually, I'm now CEO and I've got to change my notes. 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 Capitol Record podcast. He's 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? How was your Thanksgiving? Always better when USC beats the Bruins. Yeah. Usually, you know, we would be playing them before Thanksgiving. That's right. And then now with the kind of changes of rotation, there's been a lot of years where it's been the weekend of Thanksgiving.

Do you want to talk about the game?

Yeah.

Are we doing this right away? Yeah, I've got a history thing, but this kind of, this kind of counts as history. You know that, you know that this UCLA team is so bad. It's hard to even really feel good about this win. They were just awful. I couldn't believe how bad they were.

Even in this game.

Well, they played well in the first half.

They came out fighting a bit, and USC played sloppy in the first half, and we sat our two best players for the whole first quarter.

But I think that this quarterback that they raised all this NIL money for to bring out from Tennessee,

I would sue to get my money back.

Did you see that drive in the third quarter where he had two delay of games?

Yes.

No, they're just bad.

They're just badly coached, a bad team.

They only care about one game every year.

That's it.

It's been so long since they've been even decent. Now, look, I hate losing to them, but then all those Bruins come out of the woodwork to talk trash and everything, and then you don't hear from them in the rest of the year. Although I hear from them a lot when they're applying for jobs and stuff at my company, but I don't take them seriously't, um, take them seriously. And they go, well,

we're at basketball school, which is true. They have a lot of basketball championships. They last

won one in 1995, which was 30 years ago. But no, I don't take them seriously. And I'm glad we

won, but I don't get excited to beat Notre Dame. Yes. I hate losing DCLA, but I don't get excited to beat Notre Dame.

Yes.

I hate losing DCLA, but I don't really care about beating them.

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