Merry Christmas!

We pull this segment from the Px3 vault: what the Grinch can teach us about empathy as we enter an election year.

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A new poll in New Hampshire provides us something we haven't had all summer... a theoretically plausible pathway for someone not named Trump to win the nomination. How Nikki Haley can emulate and reject the McCain 2000 template.

Matt Laslo (Raw Story) gives us a recap of the latest border deal and remembers the five most insane moments of 2023 that he witnessed himself. Including an witheringly sad moment with Diane Feinstein and when he found Matt Gaetz' plot to remove the speaker laying on the floor of the men's room.

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Ryan McBeth (https://www.youtube.com/@ryanmcbethprogramming) joins the show to discuss misinformation during wartime, the state of play in Ukraine and Gaza as well as some predictions about future wars.

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The gold-standard poll for the Iowa Caucus shows Trump with his biggest lead yet with not a lot of time to go. Why has he been so much more effective? What's the right way to attack him?

A new memo suggests that if we want to predict 2024, we need to look back to 1968. Is Biden entering LBJ territory?

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Anyone who writes or says "Trump won the debate" is either lazy, bored or untalented. Justin explains.

Clips and breakdown of the final GOP primary debate of 2023.

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Ukraine says it will run out of money for the war effort at the end of the year unless the United States authorizes more. But that looks unlikely to happen without the Democrats changing border policy. Justin delves into the legacy of the Iraq War and creeping reality that closing the border might be good politics for Democrats.

Howard Mortman (C-SPAN's The Weekly) joins the show to talk about George Santos, Jim Traficant and the Iowa Caucus.

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All the best moments from a frisky debate between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom.

Jen Briney joins the show to talk congress.

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Justin Is back from Europe with some observations from across the pond including immigration, Biden watching and more. Bill Scher joins us to say "This Is Fine!" about Biden 2024. His vulnerability on the Israel-Gaza war, the economy, defining Trump and, of course, his age. 

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Kevin Ryan closes his week in the guest host chair with two interviews, both underlying the world we try to make better than we found it.

• Wall Street Journal correspondent Julia Flynn Siler on climate change and her voyage to the Arctic.
• Parenting, therapy, falling out with the left, and more musings with Bridget Phetasy and Jeren Montgomery.

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Guest host Kevin Ryan is joined by Joe Pappalardo, an author and journalist who has spent much of his career covering space exploration. His recent piece in Popular Mechanics, 'How We'll Die on Mars', explores how humanity will live and die in the next frontier.

In this interview, Ryan and Joe dive deep into covering rocket launches, the ins-and-outs of private versus public-funded space exploration, and his new book, 'Red Sky Morning,' which details the adventures of Texas Ranger Company F in the last years of the Wild West.

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