Season 5, Episode 26 - economist Thomas Sowell, blaming objects for acts of terror, glorifying Luigi Mangione, radioactive lab notes of one Nobel Prize winner, and much more during this Christmas week

• In this week's Podcast, our quote of the week is from economist Thomas Sowell on how the success of others has gone from being admired to something that is hated.  
• In our stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, we'll tell you what OBJECT the press is blaming for a recent act of terror instead of the person who used it.  
• We'll tell you about the newest (and most disgusting) way Luigi Mangione's supporters glorify him.  
• In our science minute, we have two stories.
• We'll tell you why the lab notes of one Nobel Prize winner must be kept in a lead-lined box, and in our other story, we'll let you know why you should never reheat food in a plastic container.  
• We'll tell you what the network news stations didn't initially tell you about the identity of a man accused of killing a woman on a New York City subway by setting her on fire and ask why they didn't include that piece of information when they initially reported on that story.  
• We'll tell you about another horrific story concerning the sexual abuse of their two adopted children by a gay couple that the networks chose not to cover, and again, ask why you never heard about that story.  
• We'll tell you how network news reporting has altered the perception of the number of "Unarmed black men killed by police" in a year. The actual number is probably much smaller than you have been led to believe.  
• We'll tell you how the number of your elected representatives in Congress aged 70 or older has risen dramatically over the past 40 years. It is probably a number way higher than you would have guessed!  
• Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from the Philadelphia suburb of Upper Darby, PA, where a young thug armed with a fake gun makes the mistake of trying to rob a victim who has a real gun.
• We are still struggling with internet connectivity issues, so I apologize for any dropouts of Podcast today.