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National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

Episode 439: Newsom’s House of Card Sharks

National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

National Review

Politics, News, National Review, Conservatism, Government, California, Conservative

4.8708 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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0:00.0

Be envenitos. That's California for welcome to the April 7th edition of National Review's

0:17.3

Radio Free California Podcast. I'm Will Swame, CEO of the California Policy Center. You can find my colleagues and me at California Policy Center.org. You can find my friend and co-host David Bonson right here. He's an economist, host of the Capital Record podcast, author of the book full-time, work in the meaning of life, take a deep breath. And of course, he's founder of the eponymous investment firm, the Bonson Group. Hello, David.

0:38.3

Hello, Will.

0:39.0

How are you, my friend?

0:40.1

So good.

0:40.7

David, let's get to some headlines real fast.

0:43.7

You should have these in your inbox.

0:47.1

I'm going to get to the history here in just a moment, but really did want to touch on a couple of headlines here.

0:52.8

One of which is that the UCLA Bruins beat that other

0:58.2

USC. This is the women's team I'm talking about in March Madness. The women's basketball team

1:02.1

out of UCLA beat the other USC. That's the University of South Carolina, 79 to 51. And David,

1:08.9

you and I disagree on these kinds of things, I think, but anytime a

1:11.6

California team goes to war against the team from outside the state, I drop all internal hostility,

1:17.6

and I back the Californians, and man, they just whooped South Carolina. And I know you're a huge

1:23.5

fan of Lady Basketball. So feedback? Well, I couldn't give a rats you know what and i think

1:30.6

that this is the biggest trolling you've ever done and if there's another story like this in a future

1:36.4

episode it might be my last episode and by the way i will say this i care about women's basketball

1:43.3

about as much as everyone else listening right now, and about as much as you do, too, you fake wokester. I actually watched the game. No, you didn't. I did. Well, I watched the highlights of the game. I watched 20 minutes of the game, the 20-minute highlight on YouTube. It was terrific. So go you, Bruins.

2:02.6

Whatever makes you feel good. You're such an incredible equal rights title nine advocate.

2:08.5

It's not that. I love my state, brother. And then I have been so fascinated by the Artemis 2,

2:15.6

NASA shot, you know, the trip around the moon.

2:18.3

When I was a little.

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