In a surprising turn, Ryan agrees with Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on her stance against the city's teachers union voting to move to virtual learning online. With 1619 Project co-founder Nikole
Hannah-Jones also lining up against removing students from classrooms, Randi Weingarten and unionized teachers are running out of allies and options. Also, AOC decided to join Ryan for some fun in the Florida sun over the holidays - despite her criticisms of Governor Ron DeSantis and his COVID policies which enable the very freedom she was able to enjoy.

Ryan fills in for Leland and marvels at the sudden revelation by New York governor Kathy Hochul (D) that patients hospitalized for other reasons may be listed has having COVID, now that Omicron cases are skyrocketing among blue states with more restrictive COVID protocols and mandates. Also, Dr. Richina Bicette stunningly admits to CNN's John King that Omicron is less severe, but doesn't want to push that narrative because people should still be afraid.

It never a bad time to get 'Sassy with Massie,' as Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie (R) joins Leland to discuss the latest update on his lawsuit against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the mask mandate fines she has imposed on members of Congress.

Ryan leads off the program calling for an end to the Left's War on the Unvaccinated, as Leland joins the fray and points to logic and common sense in dealing with the more transmissible - but less virulent - Omicron variant of COVID and all those to follow in 2022. Bottom line? We need to move on and learn to live with it as an endemic disease in our everyday existence.

One of the lone conservative voices remaining on CNN, Scott Jennings, drops in to give his take on Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) being alone on an island as a moderate Democrat after his refusal to support President Biden's 'Build Back Better' plan. Leland also asks if 110 years in prison is too much for the runaway semi driver who crushed and incinerated four people on I-70 due to grossly negligent driving.

Denver tried to ban flavored tobacco products, which Mayor Michael Hancock personally overturned by veto, and now the Colorado general assembly says 'hold my beer' as they mull over the issue. Leland tells old man stories about the good ol' days. Also, how long should the runaway semi driver's sentence be - after killing four people due to his grossly negligent actions?

When students on the campus at the University of Pittsburgh are asked about Frosty the Snowman assuming gender, they admit that this could be a problem under current woke rules of sensitivity. Also, with property values skyrocketing everywhere, Leland examines the latest appraisal and assessment of the North Pole home of Santa Claus and all his elves and reindeer.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) goes out on his own as a Democrat against 'Build Back Better,' and gets called a racist - in so many words - by Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY). Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich joins Leland to discuss the influx of illicit drugs at the Mexican border due to President Biden's weakened policies allowing illegal immigrants to flood in.

The proliferation and danger posed by so-called 'ghost guns' is bordering on fantasy, according to Jon Caldara of The Independence Institute. He joins Leland to discuss why President Biden are off their rockers using this as a political wedge issue to scare swing voters on the issue of guns.