01:00 NR: Mayor Karen Bass Partied While Her City Burned, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/mayor-karen-bass-partied-while-her-city-burned/
04:00 LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-14/firefighters-lafd-response-lack-of-staff-engines-pacific-palisades-fire
11:00 L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is Bad in a Crisis. Here’s Why, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp3_vkoM_yI
18:00 CNN: ‘Beyond the brink’: Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America, https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/us/la-fire-department-resourses-understaffed-invs/index.html
38:30 Hamas & Israel reach hostage deal
42:00 Paul Town on Mark Halperin’s show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXqmGicrzw
52:00 Reviewing Pete Hegseth’s performance at Senate hearing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VxLCYm30jo
1:07:20 John Podhoretz, Noah Rothman were theater kids, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSI4GkkFzKY
1:08:20 Pete Hegseth nomination for SecDef
1:14:00 Greg Gutfeld on LA’s fires
1:38:28 American Primeval, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/arts/television/american-primeval-history-books-movies.html
1:39:00 John Podhoretz recommends American Primeval, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_N7MY1eFqU
1:58:00 Kip joins to talk about the decline of the organization man
2:33:40 Mark Halperin on the Israel – Hamas deal, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ve5rdeJI9E
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