Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: what is Dennis’s favorite cigar; were we smarter as a people in the middle of the twentieth century; do expectations prevent happiness; would Dennis consider doing a commentary on Proverbs.

There are people who don’t want to be happy. Dennis lists four ways people are “happier” being miserable.

Does the special counsel care that he has ruined a man’s life? And for what reason?… Canada joins the ban on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” now an unacceptable song for the Christmas playlist… A SNL comedian gets yanked off a stage at Columbia U. His comedy was declared “offensive” by the group that brought him.