01:00 Power went out so I talked to people IRL
05:30 Matt Continetti on the California inferno and the rebuild of the rules regime at Meta, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t42Qzg2QRI
08:00 Rick Caruso: There’s no water in the Palisades, https://www.foxla.com/video/1573156
39:40 Mark Halperin: Biden’s decline is one of the biggest scandals in media history, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBulWDSCRi8
44:00 NR: Mayor Out of the Country as Los Angeles Burns, Residents Plead for Help, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/mayor-out-of-the-country-as-los-angeles-burns-residents-plead-for-help/
57:00 JF GARIEPY ON THE RUN FOR MURDER!, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y3jLpPpaPk
1:19:00 Mark Halperin: Trump Transition, Democrat Realignment, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXXlZPaC3To
2:02:00 The Paranoid Style Of Adam Curtis, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139331
2:13:00 WSJ: It’s Called a Premortem—and It’s the Most Productive Thing You’ll Do All Year, https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/new-years-resolutions-ron-shaich-cava-panera-c0fb7922
2:37:00 The next prime minister of Canada: How do you like them apples?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_1BJUi2Z04
2:39:40 ‘I’m not going to allow you to interrupt me’: Pierre Poilievre has terse exchange while taking questions, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjDCf3Wv-_U
3:30:30 25 Ways To Improve Your Mental Health In 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8gkwkb-26M
4:10:00 My miserable Seventh-Day Adventist childhood, https://www.lukeford.net/luke_ford/bio/l1.html
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