Be Invenitos. That's California for welcome to the December 17th edition of National Review's Radio Free California podcast. I'm Will Swame. I'm with the California Policy Center and you can find my colleagues and me at, get this, California Policy Center.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 and the Meaning of Life. And of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment firm, the Bonson Group. Hello, David. Hello, Will. Good to be with you. And with you. Lots to get to.

I want to start with, I mentioned the book, full time, work in the meaning of life. And it's interesting

that last week you recorded something for the Dividend Cafe that was, I thought, really just super important to

understanding who you are and how that book came to be in some respects. But of course,

it's larger than just your dad inspiring your book. It's that you describe in great detail

your memory of your dad on the 30th anniversary of his death.

So maybe you could talk to us about that, David.

Your dad's influence, your dad's how your dad helps shape,

not just your view of work and the meaning of life,

but how the meaning of life shapes work.

Maybe you can just give us a quick overview.

Well, of course, I'll put this in the show notes and people can go listen to it for themselves,

but it is a really great piece of memorial writing.

So hit us.

Well, I appreciate that.

There's two things, I guess, I direct people to.

The piece you site is at diviningcafe.com. there's two things I guess I direct people to the the PSU site was it

dividend cafe.com and it was a pretty long article about the way in which dad

impacted my work life my belief system and and and how the need to have first

principles which you and I talk a lot about on this podcast

and how we want it to be a very important part of the way we view, you know, politics or

social theory, political application, you know, to do so out of first things. And so I got all that

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