01:00 LA fires represent the failure of liberal governance, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=158603
04:00 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom’s Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ35G6XI8Uw
08:00 LAT: Amid dangerous winds in 2011, LAFD engines stood ready. That didn’t happen this time, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-18/amid-dangerous-winds-in-2011-lafd-engines-stood-ready-in-the-palisades-that-didnt-happen-this-time
23:00 Tiktok is back
44:00 Kip discusses oral loving
47:00 Kip’s repetitive concerns regarding America’s economy
49:00 The more charismatic the public speaker, the more likely they are cold in person
55:00 The degeneracy of modern American culture
1:57:30 Elliott Blatt joins to discuss creating incentives for pro-social behavior and disincentives for bad behavior
2:04:00 Muslim terror diminished under President Trump’s first term
2:07:00 I was in Munich for the 1972 Munich Olympics
2:35:10 Mark Halperin on the New York Times pathetic coverage of Joe Biden’s decline of mental acuity
2:43:00 Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Samuel Mohilever (Part 7) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re-r1y264TU
2:47:45 Zionist antisemitism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_antisemitism
3:10:00 The Langer dispute, https://www.koltorah.org/halachah/great-controversy-in-israeli-batei-din-the-langer-case-by-benzion-rotblat-21
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