Episode 429: Gavin Newsom, the Therapeutic Candidate
National Review's Radio Free California Podcast
National Review
4.8 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Be envenitos, that's California for welcome to the February 3rd edition of National Review's |
| 0:17.4 | Radio Free California Podcast. I'm Will Swain, President of the California Policy Center, president or CEO. I mean, what's in its title? 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. He's the host of the Capital 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. Friend and co-host in that order. Yes, that's true. Did I say, I hope I say that. Yes, friend and co-good. Yeah, I should know that by now to 10 years. We have a lot to get to. I have, I have the- Are there any co are enemies of, like, high-profile podcast like ours? That would make a really great show. I mean, they're up in the upper echelon like ours. You know, you and me, Stephen A. Smith. Yes, those guys. No, but who are even the, like... Oh, the ones with more than one host, Because the biggest when you talk about like Ben Shapiro's solo, Candice Owens, a solo, Megan Kelly's solo on the political. But what's the left wing one that's huge? Pod saves America? A pod saves America is that one of them. Yeah, there's also... Who is that? Is that an old Obama guy or something? Yeah, there's also the Young Turks podcast. |
| 1:28.3 | Oh, that's more. |
| 1:28.9 | It was a YouTube. |
| 1:42.5 | There's your buddy Scaramucci who does one with... Yeah, but I don't think that's that big, is it? I don't know. His British one is big or something. Yeah, they've got a... This is one on American politics that he does with... I'm so embarrassed. I don't remember her name. He's huge in Belgium. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.1 | Well, we're huge in, was it Uganda? |
| 1:46.3 | Ryan, that was for you. |
| 1:45.1 | Did you ever see the singles? embarrassed. I don't remember her name. He's huge in Belgium. Yeah. Well, we're huge in, was it Uganda? |
| 1:47.6 | Ryan, that was for you. Did you ever see the singles? |
| 1:55.8 | Kira Sedgwick, Matt Dillon, 1992, maybe 93, grunge, Seattle, music. I like it already, though. Brilliant movie. What is it called? The Singles. I am ashamed. |
| 1:59.8 | Alice in Chains is heavily featured. |
| 2:02.6 | Actually, I think they perform, not as themselves, in the movie, but then Wood is one of the songs in the soundtrack. |
| 2:12.1 | But there's a line where their band is just flop and nobody can't sell tickets in a club in seattle he's all |
| 2:18.1 | huge in belgium yeah and so i've been saying that for well 34 years now were you ever in a |
| 2:23.2 | movie even just inadvertently a documentary oh i've been in a couple documentaries because i was in um oh gosh |
| 2:29.6 | what was it called i'm blanking all the sudden uh the romones, it was a supposedly, it was a little frothy |
| 2:35.6 | thing they recorded part of it at the Roxy up in Hollywood and I would have been 19 maybe. And they were |
| 2:41.9 | handing out free tickets at USC. So I go in with, naturally they hand one to me. I got a mohawk at a pier |
| 2:46.7 | steer, right? That's who they won in the audience for Ramon's show. And it turned into a riot when the fans realized the Ramones were lip-syncing the same song over and over again. And there were ashtrays being thrown to me. So that's not punk rock to do that? It was, yeah, I don't think it's even admirable if it's not punk rock. So you were in a documentary that the scene ended up turning into a riot |
| 3:07.6 | I was in a documentary about a riot because they did a feature on all of us that stormed the |
| 3:11.8 | Capitol on Jan 6 that was you yeah that was me I thought I saw it was me in the proud boys |
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