B.N. Vinnie, that's California for welcome to the January 27th edition of National Reviews,

Radio Free California Podcast. I'm Will Swame. I'm CEO of the California Policy Center. You can find my colleagues and me at California PolicyCenter.org, and you can find my friend and co-host, David Bonson, right here in the studio. He's an economist, the host of the Capital Record podcast. That's another one, our competition. The author of the book, Full Time, work in the Meaning of Life. And of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment from the Bonson group hello David hello Will I

got some emails from you this morning there was the the normal for listeners

will always sends because he works so hard on this podcast a very exhaustive list

to topics and then he updates. And then he updates it.

And then he updates it again.

And then I just start deleting like crazy and then I'm sitting here talking to

Well.

The world doesn't stop merely because I submit a run list.

There have been times where it was my fault because you've sent a list and then I find a story that I text to you and you're like, oh, we've got to add this.

Twice in 10 years? Yeah. I don't know. No, for the most part, it's just. No, you get your stories to me like on Saturday and Sunday. Usually. I think it's your reading time, it seems. There's more of it, yeah. And I'm only sending you California specific stuff. and you know sometimes

you got to stretch to find some California stuff

you've because you're in sack

B I'm only sending you California-specific stuff. And, you know, sometimes you got a stretch

to find some California stuff. You, you, because you're in SACB, San Francisco Chronicle,

now what are your take, what is your take on this new California Post deal?

I am, I'm really thrilled. First of all, as a, you know, as a conservative, as a journalist,

I think more newspapering is good for

California and and no matter how much money they lose well you know the guy I'm just kidding

Ruben Murdoch may have a few billion he can afford to lose you know that is that's

like a Bernie Sanders line how so he has a few billion he can lose I mean know a lot of billionaires, and most of them don't like to lose money in perpetuity. But so in other words, the fact that someone has a billion, or in Rupert's case many more, doesn't mean they want to lose money. I don't think he did it for the missional cause of saving California.

No, I think he sees a legit opportunity here. And the opportunity is created by, I mean,

...