We start the show full of holiday stress. So we ask listeners: how do you deal with holiday gifting stress? Or, are you like Jim who, supposedly, has everything under control this year? 

NAACP's Michael Curry reacts to the UnitedHealthcare shooting and resulting public discourse the healthcare system. 

Former secretary of public safety Andrea Cabral discusses Biden’s pardons, Trump plans to scrap ICE rules that prohibit the arrest of immigrants in churches & hospitals, and more. 

Environmentalist Bill McKibben talks changing tactics to fight climate change over the next four years.

PBS travel guru Rick Steves takes us on a 20-minute Holiday food tour across Europe, from German gingerbread markets to Roman fruit cakes, to Swiss fondue. Plus, he teaches us a new Swiss word. 

Then it's a Santa-themed "Am I the A-Hole?"