New year, new show!  It's been a crazy first few weeks of 2024, and between work and weather, it's been tough to get together to do a show.  Andrew and Jerry break down the wet start to 2024, and talk about the weather in the context of both the climate change and energy debates.  They talk about the public policy problem of offering up so-called "solutions" that don't actually address problems (if they don't make them worse), and this dovetails into DEI policies, issues of race, and the demand in some corners for reparations--and, drawing a line between the call for reparations and the failed outcomes of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty (that became a War on the Poor), discuss just how reparations might destroy communities of color in the United States.  The issue of policies that empower versus disempower people and what happens in an America where the left has make it impossible for Americans to have a common political heritage.  Then they look at the 2024 election--and the hypocrisy of so-called thought leaders who claim to be concerned about the impact of Biden Administration economic policy, yet seem to be working overtime to ensure Joe Biden's re-election.