00:00 LA slammed by Covid patients, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-04/los-angeles-hospitals-cannot-keep-up-covid-19-surge-illness
22:00 Mediocre White Male joins
34:00 Golem XIV, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV
1:25:00 Jonathan Bowden, ‘Wyndham Lewis A British Modernist Life’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucNuwO_iM4Q
1:28:00 Do hospitals get paid extra for Covid diagnoses? https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/
1:29:00 USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/
1:32:00 Jaw-Dropping New CDC Figures Suggest True U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Approaching Half a Million, https://www.mediaite.com/news/jaw-dropping-new-cdc-figures-suggest-true-u-s-coronavirus-death-toll-approaching-half-a-million/
1:37:00 The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136235
1:42:00 Babs camps out in a cemetery
1:56:00 My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir, https://www.amazon.com/My-Kitchen-Wars-Memoir-Table/dp/0803220979
2:02:00 Babs & Bloodsports
2:08:00 Bunyip, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip
2:47:00 Is Empathy a Good or Bad Thing?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR6QDTW-ceQ
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