From California inside expert John Phillips of KABC radio in Los Angeles

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• The John Phillips Show
• John Phillips on Twitter
• Pro Publica, 2020: They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

Ann is back from her holiday break with stories you may have missed since her last show:

• Biden awards George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• The "Snail Darter" doesn't exist. (Now they tell us!)
• NY institutes "congestion pricing"
• NYT travel writer on the "tresspassing" American
• The media's blonde, blue-eyed not-so-homeless homeless Americans

Ann's last show before Christmas and it's a stocking overflowing with stories that you may have missed this week.

The show returns one last time for 2024 on the Friday before the New Year. See you then!

The NSFW Amy Wax Interview:

Lawyers for University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax have given the school until December 19th to retract punishments levied against her. Otherwise they plan on suing the university saying that the administration illegally discriminated on the basis of race, did not punish more egregious anti-Semitic content from other faculty members and violated Wax’s contract (which promises free speech), and the American with Disabilities Act (for not accommodating her cancer treatments during the investigation.)

Welcome to the all-crime podcast.

• Daniel Penny is found not guilty as crime is a sleeper issue against the Democrats
• Biden goes commutation happy with clemency for "non-violent" inmates
• Assessing the killer of the United Healthcare CEO
• The NY Times tries to re-write the history of Sen. Joe Biden's 1994 crime bill

Stories of the week:

• President Dementia has seen the future
• Pete Hesgeth and Alcohol
• Conspiracy theories
• Fox News discovers immigration
• Fixing Social Security

The incomparable Heather Mac Donald on Trump's nominees and priorities: the hits and the misses.

Spurred on by converation with the great Heather MacDonald, Ann takes a look at Trump's remaining controversial cabinet picks (Hesgeth, Patel and Noem) and asks, "Does character still matter?"

Then she throws down the gauntlet to Vivek Ramaswamy - come on the podcast and tell us what you really think instead of complaining to Ezra Klein.

A 28-year-veteran employee of United Airlines says the company fired him over false allegations of bigotry and that his union abandoned him in the ptocess. Ruben Sanchez, Jr talks to Ann about how corporate wokeness took away his llivelihood.

• Ruben Sanchez’s GoFundMe
• Ruben’s X feed
• United CEO Scott Kirby in Drag

The Big Stories of the Week:

• Matt Gaetz is out and Pam Bondi is in.
• The enemy of my enemy is RFK
• Dr. Oz is in
• Kamala's $B Spending

Audio this week: Sen. John Fetterman reacts to the Gaetz withdrawal and Lindy Li of the DNC Finance Committee on Fox & Friends Weekend