Bienvenitos. That's California for welcome to the April 15th edition of National Review's Radio Free California podcast. I'm Will Swain, 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. He's 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. How are you, my friend?

I'm good. I feel like ever

since our last podcast, I have been racing to keep up with breaking news on the, I can see Eric

Swalwell story most of all. So many stories every week, so good. I mean, one week, I should

just list all the stories that didn't make it first. They're just so many good ones. How have you been?

I've been really good, really good. But I will tell you that a week ago Sunday, it was 21 degrees in New York City on my morning run,

and yesterday it was 85 degrees.

Climate change.

Yeah, I don't think that California, like where we're at Orange County,

I don't think you would see, well, let's see, Heidelow. In the whole year, I'd think you

might get 40 degrees bandwidth. That's more than normal one. Yeah, certainly. But to have 60 degree

bandwidth or 64 degree bandwidth in like a week is crazy. But it's got to be lovely right now, springtime.

Yeah, well, the spring days, and of course they call it fake spring in New York because they've had

spring and then it went back to winter and so forth. And so it kind of goes back and forth. But the

spring days that are spring e are just lovely. Well, we've got this, you know, down in Southern California, at least,

love to hear from our friends up in the north. But down here, we had some rain early this week,

Monday, followed by the most gorgeous like Simpsons family sky, you know, blue, puffy, white clouds,

a breeze, golden light around five o'clock in the afternoon.

I was just lovely.

And I am just always so excited by, I don't know, rain especially, just always strikes me as

there is a gift from God.

It is free.

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