Vienveni of us. That's California for welcome to the February 25th edition of National Reviews, Radio Free California Podcast.

I'm Will Swam. I'm CEO 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. He's an economist. He's host of the Capital Record podcast, the author of the book, full-time, work in the meaning of life. And of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment firm, the Bunsen Group. Good morning, David. Good morning. How are you, sir? I'm good. It's supposed to be

low 70s here today and looks like it's going to be about the same out there in New York and sunny and clear and

warm, right? Well, it is very sunny and very clear, but it is cold. We had quite a blizzard on Monday, and it caused many

thousands of flights to get canceled, including mine, which is first time it's ever happened to me,

ever. Flying about 120 times a year for the last 10 years, I've had one flight canceled. I've had a

couple late flights, but I mean,

sure, I've been lucky. My son is still stranded in Scotland. He's been out there for a school

trip, and they've been there for five extra days now. They're supposed to get back from

London tomorrow, but there's still a backlog of previously canceled flights having to work through

to get in. And so it's kind of a mess. They could see this one coming from a long way off.

You texted me, I don't know, Wednesday, Thursday of last week and said, no studio next week.

My flight was just canceled. No, no, I texted you on Saturday. Was it Saturday? Yeah, no, that's all

a blur. Sorry about that. By the way, are you, texted you on Saturday. Was it Saturday? Yeah, no, it's all the blur.

Sorry about that.

By the way, when you're off by three days about it, is there, is everything okay?

Are you all right?

See, that's how I know you love me.

You know that are you just concerned for a homeless guy.

I'm sorry, a person experiencing homelessness.

So, David, there's lots to get to later in the show.

I've got a recorded conversation, a conversation I talked, I recorded yesterday.

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