On this week's Curmudgeon's Corner, Sam and Ivan talk presidential transition and pandemic, along with a bit about how Americans interact with death. On the transition, the main theme is the Texas SCOTUS case that altogether predictably failed, along with all the drama surrounding that effort. On the pandemic, along with the usual stats update, discussion of people congregating for the holidays, the potential impact of the new vaccines, and some thoughts on how Biden will handle things compared to Trump. And that is that.

• (0:00:22-0:23:51) Miscellany
• Agenda
• Year-end shows coming soon!
• Interactions with death
• (0:24:41-1:16:20) Presidential Transition
• Texas vs Everyone
• Election 1876 and Election 2000
• Transactional Trump
• Trump true believers and political violence
• Electoral College shenanigans
• What remains for Trump?
• 2016 denial vs 2020 denial
• Polarization
• (1:17:37-1:45:40) Pandemic
• Stats update
• People congregating
• Vaccine
• Ivan sets a bad example
• Vaccines
• Biden vs Trump policies
• Sam health update