Season 5, Episode 25 - French economist Frederic Bastiat , Five contenders for the stupidest thing we've heard all week, Madison, Wisconsin school shooting, Journalists brains, sugar in soda, and more

We had some internet connectivity issues this week, so please excuse the few brief spots where there were some audio dropouts. In this week's Podcast, our quote is from the French economist Frederic Bastiat on the importance of policies that encourage free trade. In the stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, we had five for you to pick from and vote on instead of our usual single winner: The 5 included a proposal to ban the sale of colored guns; A law that limits how many dildos a person can own; The changing of the National spelling bee rules that permits the spelling of the word "Women" as "Womyn" to be a correct answer; An NLRB ruling forces reality show producers to treat the stars of those shows as employees instead of independent contractors. A proposal by one state legislator would make planting your college's flag on the opposing team's football field after your team won the game a felony offense. You decide the winner. We'll tell you about the ridiculously exaggerated claims many TV networks were making about the number of school shootings in this country following the tragic school shooting incident in Madison, Wisconsin, this week. We'll tell you about a study that compared the functioning of Journalists' brains to that of successful executives and why the results were not flattering for Journalists. In our health minute, if you or anybody you know drinks just one can of regular soda each day, we'll tell you how many POUNDS of sugar that adds up to each month. We'll tell you which cable network channel has overtaken CNN in the ratings. The result is a massive embarrassment for CNN. Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Houston, where the daughter of a man shoots & kills an intruder who entered her father's home while they were both still inside the home.