Bill explains how to properly watch WKRP in Cincinnati on Thanksgiving, Matt marvels at Biden’s cabinet picks, they discuss the meaning of appointing John Kerry as climate envoy, and both dare to look at 2024 GOP presidential polls.

Would Alex P. Keaton vote for Trump? ... Matt: The Republicans have somehow gotten even worse post-election ... Biden the centrist vs. the AOC left ... Will the media move on from Trump? ... What Trump's improved performance with minorities means for the GOP ... Matt: I hate populism ... Gaming out the Georgia special elections ...

Reminiscing about TV theme songs of yore ... Can the GOP quit Trump? ... Gaming out how Biden would deal with a GOP Senate ... The political consequences of Biden's reasonableness ... Did America vote for gridlock? ... The Catch-22 of Trump ...

Bill promised that Biden would win. Does he have to turn in his pundit license? ... Matt: We have been ill-served by the media and the pollsters ... Trump's attempt to shut down the count ... Bill eats crow on the Senate ... Why did the states diverge so much? ... Is Trumpism here to stay? ... Hear more on the DMZoom! ...

What are the odds that Trump wins? Bill says zero. ... Why Matt is embracing epistemic humility ... Florida red, Arizona blue? ... Reviewing the Supreme Court's recent voting rulings ... Bill: We may learn something huge about Amy Coney Barrett on Monday ... Some time off from the culture war? ... Bill predicts Democrats will win back the Senate ... Matt's prediction: Lindsey Graham will lose ...

Glenn critiques attempts to make race a part of academic hiring ... “Optics equality” and the denial of group differences ... Improving low-income primary schools ... Topics on which you can’t challenge the consensus ... Glenn’s letter denouncing his own university’s president over BLM ... Can academics “cite inclusively”? ... Will online education disrupt colleges? ... Advice for a nontenured professor with heterodox views ... What should a university administrator do? ... Audience Q&A ...

Dan's essay, "How President Trump Ruined Political Comedy" ... Why so many Trump-era Daily Show–style shows have failed ... Trump the insult comic ... Dan: The way liberals and conservatives understand comedy has changed ... Stephen Colbert and Steven Crowder's different varieties of racial humor ... Trump's clownishness vs. Obama's dignity ... Remember when Trump gave a medal to a hero dog? Or was that just a joke? ... Cuties, QAnon, and the return of conservative moralizing ... What might comedy look like during a Biden presidency? ...

Mickey’s beef with Jeffrey Toobin ... Reviewing the final presidential debate ... Parsing the Hunter Biden emails ... The case against Joe Biden (and the case against the case) ... Three models of media scandal suppression ... Maybe Rudy Giuliani is just a glitch in the Matrix ... Could the pandemic actually kill 200,000 more people this year? ... Mickey sort of almost finally says he’s voting for Trump ...

Bill’s new book, The Death of the Artist ... Why the "long tail" thesis was wrong ... How did the early dream of the Internet die? ... Blockbuster consolidation in fine art ... Luck and privilege ... Is art school a pyramid scheme? ... What is to be done? Bill has some thoughts ... Will the pandemic finish off the arts? ... Wokism as a moral figleaf for careerist college students ...

Bill’s encounter with Sacha Baron Cohen ... Why isn’t Mitch McConnell trying to pass a stimulus bill? ... Remembrance of skewed polls past ... Biden’s bipartisan bona fides ... The two Joe Bidens ... Debate advice for Trump ... So does Matt support Biden or what? ...