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1

Fighting Crime Like an Economist

2

The Non-Profit Industrial Complex

3

Hahaha! Warrant? What Warrant?!

4

Your Friends Are Wrong About the Supreme Court: Sarah Isgur

5

War Without Coffins

6

The Travails of Afroman and Lindy West (WSPN)

7

How To Deal with Political Lizard People

8

Interview with the Mega Warden

9

What's Prison Hooch Taste Like?

10

Parenting Behind Bars

11

Maine is Smarter Than Your State about Prison

12

Heaton Goes to Prison

13

Richer Than Ever, Miserable Anyway

14

A.I. and the Future of Scams

15

Undeclared Wars

16

How the Court Neutered Trump

17

Grover Norquist at Burning Man (Rebroadcast)

18

Governing through Blockchain: Techno-Communes (Preview)

19

How to Build a Commune: Samwise Rodriguez

20

Jeff Flake Alone on an Island with a Knife

21

The Map That Explains Everything About America: Colin Woodard

22

America is Eleven Different Countries (Rebroadcast)

23

I Time Traveled to Talk to Medieval Yokels about Economics

24

MLK and Color Blindness

25

The Friendship Recession and Cocktail Parties

26

I Explain Venezuela Using Lottery Tickets

27

Is Everyone Disabled Now? (WSPN)

28

Heaton and Monkey: Yuletide Spysolvers

29

Jason Pargin on Internet Addiction and Algorithmic Horror

30

The Secret Map of Supreme Court Justices

31

Freddie deBoer: What It's Like to Have a Mental Breakdown

32

Squanto the Power Broker

33

Cash for Kidneys

34

"The Walking Dead" and Pagan Values

35

SHUTDOWN: The Musical

36

How to Start Your Own Country: No Man's Land

37

America's Two Angry Dads: Jefferson and Hamilton

38

The Ethics of Performing for Dictators

39

(Sneak Peak) From Branding to the Electric Chair

40

How Texas Blocked Pornhub

41

The Fight Over Gay Characters in Public Schools

42

Rogue Judges and Birthright Citizenship

43

Katie Herzog Gives Me Advice On My Drinking Problem

44

Daryl Davis Attends Klan Rallies (Rebroadcast)

45

Why Europe is Poorer than America

46

Does Liberalism Eat Itself?

47

Charlie Kirk and the Heinous "Other"

48

What Happens When the Ayatollah Falls?

49

Sweden Tried Socialism So You Don't Have To

50

What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?

51

To Make a Terrifying Spoiler Candidate

52

Greg Lukianoff is Worried About Free Speech

53

But Gene Epstein Hates the Fed

54

What the Hell Does the Federal Reserve Do?

55

How to Become Rich Serving in Congress

56

China Hates These Two People

57

The Two Times We Invaded Canada

58

Populist Hillbillies vs. Fake Lordlings: The Almost-States of Franklin, Nickajack, and Transylvania

59

Government Grocery Stores and Free Bussing! (WSPN)

60

Churchill, Non-Proliferation, and Iranian Nuclear Ambitions

61

Assassins Part III: An Anarchist Murders McKinley

62

Assassins Part I: Shooting Andrew Jackson

63

How Godzilla Beat the Housing Crisis

64

This Book Will Upset Your Textbook

65

Make Hollywood Great Again?

66

Why You Need a License for Everything

67

A.I. Will Be Even More Awesome Than You Thought

68

Is it Racist? Is it Sexist?

69

Faster, Cheaper, Better Government: Derek Thompson on "Abundance"

70

Trump, Napoleon III, and the Global Economic Order

71

Cory Doctorow on the Evils of Copyright Law

72

Near Death Experiences, with Sebastian Junger

73

Deporting Khalil

74

I Talk to a DEI Consultant about DEI

75

Your Kids and The Department of Education

76

Jeff Maurer: Revenge of the Low-Flow Toilets

77

Jonathan Rauch: Christianity Dropped the Ball on Democracy

78

Sex by the Numbers

79

TRADE WAR! (Probably)

80

Trump's Whack-A-Mole with Federal Employees

81

Death Row Pen Pals

82

How Billionaires Think About Philanthropy

83

We'll Watch Your Dog While You're in Rehab

84

A Theme Park for Kids with Disabilities (And Everyone)

85

The Alzheimer's Choir

86

The Pragmatist's Guide to Politics

87

The Library of Mistakes

88

Black People and White People Advice

89

Heaton and Monkey: Yuletide Crimesolvers (1987)

90

The Original War on Christmas

91

Crime or Punishment in "A Clockwork Orange" (ATA)

92

Life After Prison

93

Chimp Politics

94

What Sparked the Great Awokening

95

What Can the President Actually Do on Trade?

96

A Trump Voter and a Kamala Voter Walk Into a Bar…

97

Our Dumb Election: The Musical

98

Flee Not To Canada, My Countrymen (Live Show)

99

Pitch me on Trump: Austin Petersen

100

Pitch me on Kamala Harris: Jeremiah Johnson & Jeff Maurer

101

The Green Party, War, and Ecosocialism

102

Cornel West: The People's Party

103

Chase Oliver: The Libertarian

104

How Tribalism Ruined Politics (NEW HEATON BOOK!)

105

Paternalism as Class Warfare

106

Kevin Williamson on Political Anxiety, The Future, Eating Cats

107

Fetishizing Jobs

108

Maybe I'm Wrong About Woke?

109

Stupid Taxes vs. Smart Taxes

110

Why Nations Fail

111

What the DNC Means by "Freedom"

112

The Good and Bad on Tim Walz

113

How to Stop A Drug Cartel

114

Collapse of the Middle: Scott Klug

115

The College Cartel

116

Matt Taibbi Against the Gatekeepers

117

Hulk Hogan Formally Endorses Donald Trump

118

So Who's this Vance, Then?

119

Bad Takes on a Near Miss

120

The Tory Downfall and What it Means

121

Homeless Thought Experiments

122

Presidential Immunity & Death Squads

123

Bump Stocks, Guns, and Psycho Ex-Boyfriends

124

Chevron is Dead

125

Debate!: The Musical

126

The War On Prices

127

RFK, Jr. in Terms of Vaccines, Peace, Inflation & Spoilers

128

The Economics of Midlife Crises

129

Presenting LPS: America's Most Colorful Quack

130

Trump Conviction: Kangaroo Court or Al Capone?

131

Batya Ungar-Sargan on the Working Class

132

The Difference Between Psychopaths and Sociopaths

133

How Nations Escape Poverty

134

Cicero and the Founding Fathers

135

College Campuses Are So Very Very Passionate (WSPN)

136

Understanding Immigration Through Circus Folk

137

Was Life Easier in the Fifties?

138

What People Get Wrong About A. I.

139

Why Violent Crime is Up

140

Just How Much Fraud is in Government?

141

Totalitarianism and the Gays

142

Trump, RICO Law, and Lawyer Sex

143

The Economics of Illegal Immigration

144

The New Mao

145

America is Eleven Different Countries

146

Working with Commies and Frenchmen

147

The Politics of Artificial Intelligence

148

The Two Kinds of Independents

149

Knocking Trump Off the Ballot

150

Iowa, Ancient Greece, and Rome

151

Announcement: Live Show in New Hampshire! Saturday, January 20th

152

Moon Base Economics

153

The Cancelling of the American Mind

154

David Brooks Wants To Know You Better

155

A Very Snuffy's Rerun

156

A Rugged Snuffy's Christmas

157

Dead People Control Your House: Deed Restrictions

158

Life After Home Internet

159

Revolt of the Jury: Jury Nullification

160

Rerun: Your Life Is Way Better Than King Louis XVI's

161

How Nuclear Deterrence Works

162

Cenk Uygur And Polemicism

163

"Trickle Down Economics"

164

When Identities Fuse in Politics

165

But If There's No Free Will…

166

The Actual Deep State

167

Your Invisible Rights: Randy Barnett

168

Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap

169

Michael Malice Vs. the Soviet Union

170

John Stossel Gives Me Journalism Advice

171

The Plunder of the Commons

172

When Your Home Town Gets Invaded

173

Clean Energy and Yucky Energy: Michael Webber

174

UFO Whistleblowers and Congress

175

Nuclear Renaissance of Tomorrow

176

Upwingers Fighting Downwingers

177

Lizard People and SuperPACs

178

How to Spot Statistical Garbage

179

Government Minus Geography

180

The Economics of Bad Films

181

Clarence Thomas Hates Affirmative Action

182

The Longest Happiness Study in History

183

Cancel Culture Runs Out of Steam (WSPN)

184

Because of the Commerce Clause!

185

Big Ag's Meat Ethics

186

The Three Personalities in Politics

187

What Happens with the National Debt

188

Was Abraham Lincoln Leftwing or Rightwing?

189

Disneyland with The Death Penalty: Singapore

190

Confirmation Bias is Hilarious But Expensive

191

Salesmen Beat Engineers at Politics

192

The Answer is Always Status

193

Capitalism Remains Undefeated!

194

What Do Marxists Actually Think?

195

Sucks to Legally Immigrate

196

Coastal Bias

197

Would You Shut Down the Internet, If You Could?

198

How to Run a Scottish City

199

Design Your City's Ugly Away - Dave Amos

200

Sim City Was Always Wrong

201

What Do Mayors Actually Do? - David Holt

202

The Coming Suburban Apocalypse - Charles Marohn

203

Why Do We Do Tipping? (WSPN)

204

National Divorce and James O'Keefe - "We're Not Wrong"

205

Addicted to Dopamine

206

The Dictator's Handbook

207

Bonus: Ukraine Counterpoint with Kristaps

208

The Cost of Ukraine

209

Why America Can't Europe

210

Stanford's Forbidden Words of Hilarious Evil

211

ATA: Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling

212

Fix Teenagers By Putting Them to Work

213

Here's Why Partisanship is Skyrocketing

214

Automation Comes for Lawyers and Shrinks

215

Inequality and the New Feudalism

216

Snuffy's Explosion-Proof Christmas

217

Carnage and Blowback in American Foreign Policy

218

We're Defining Inequality Wrong

219

Bill Kristol on Military Intervention

220

Bonus: Your Life Is Way Better Than King Louis XVI's

221

What Skinny Dipping Taught Me About Greed

222

This Comedy Club Owner Un-Canceled Louis C.K.

223

We Should Abolish Student Councils

224

The Huge, Dumb Permit You've Never Heard Of

225

So I Got Canceled at Oxford

226

The Iranian Regime Still Sucks

227

Who Screwed Up Worst on Covid

228

Russia's Sham Referendums in Ukraine

229

Make Congressmen Share a District

230

America Ought to Get Herself A King

231

Who Actually Survives a Nuclear War

232

The Rules of Getting and Keeping Power

233

The Church of Woke

234

(Rebroadcast) The Berlin Wall

235

How Nazis Thought About Economics

236

Space Bureaucrats vs. Space Billionaires

237

The Supreme Court Messed Up on Prayer in Schools

238

Can I Eat Peyote if it's Religious?

239

Hunting for Theocracy in America

240

Bad News About Humane Warfare

241

America's Dueling Enlightenments

242

When To Scrap Politically Incorrect Words

243

Inflation Is Losing You Money

244

How to Change Your Idiot Uncle's Mind About Stuff

245

Every Time We've Rigged the Supreme Court

246

The Laws and Economics of Treasure Hunting

247

A Spock and Scotty Approach to Gun Control

248

Other Nations Are Insufficiently Horny

249

Real Science Hates Scientism

250

What Happens When You Get Canceled

251

(Rebroadcast) Originalism - How Conservative Judges Think

252

(Rebroadcast) The Living Constitution - How Liberal Judges Think

253

The Guts of Roe v. Wade

254

The Duopoly Hates Third Parties

255

Why Comedy Leans Left (But Doesn't Have To)

256

Why I'm an Angry Carnivore

257

Does Local Control Actually Work?

258

Woke Hysteria Is Actually Class Warfare

259

Why Monkey Groupthink Beats Human Logic

260

Crony Capitalists Are Spoiling Your Food

261

How to Prevent or Provoke Stupid Wars

262

The Brain Fog of War

263

Ukraine is Backfiring on Putin

264

Sanctions are the Virtue Signaling of Economics

265

Time Travel Bureaucracy / New Audio Book

266

Why Revolutions Ignite or Flop

267

PJ O'Rourke Once Got Me Laid

268

Joe Rogan and the Authoritarians

269

Joe Biden's Identity Politics

270

Adventures in Psychedelic Drugs

271

The Best Tiny House Village in America

272

Homelessness, and Our Stupid Solutions

273

WSPN: Omicron, Afghanistan, and Antiwork

274

If Aliens Landed Tomorrow

275

ALL the Immigrants! All of 'em!

276

White House Spy Protocols (and Cooking)

277

A Rather Snuffy's Christmas

278

Bonus: Let's Have an Uncomfortable Gender Conversation

279

The Enemies Of How We Know Stuff

280

Amusing Ourselves to Death

281

Stadium Subsidies Are Unfathomably Stupid

282

How War Shapes Us

283

Matt Ridley and Alina Chan on the Origin of Covid

284

Andrew Yang Goes AWOL

285

What Makes a Joke Offensive

286

John McWhorter on Victimhood and Woke Racism

287

The Reproductive Life of Good and Bad Policies

288

The Thing No Government Can Actually Do

289

George Will on Synthetic Hysteria

290

Politicians Hate Big Tech

291

Society Once Tried to Ban Teddy Bears

292

Bonus: What Napoleon Teaches Us About Foreign Policy

293

How To Zero In On Reality

294

How To Destroy a Country In Four Years

295

Are We Fixing or Ruining Welfare? (WSPN Roundtable)

296

Friday Release Valve is Back! (But Moving)

297

How Zoning Laws Screwed Up Everything

298

Bonus: The Alternative to Winston Churchill

299

Nation Building Failed in Afghanistan

300

Andrew Sullivan is a Gay Catholic Conservative

301

Harvard vs Asians: Affirmative Action and Racial Quotas

302

Cancel Culture Is Mostly Rich White People

303

Would You Maroon Jeff Bezos in Space?

304

Why Comedy Became Toothless

305

Los Angeles is Hideous

306

Michael Malice on Anarchism

307

Authoritarianism On the Rise

308

Don't Give Energy to Political Bullies

309

How Weighted Voting Could Actually Work

310

The Difference Between Liberals and Leftists

311

Why You Can't Drop Student Loans through Bankruptcy

312

Why College is So Freakin' Expensive?

313

Chinese Social Engineering – WSPN Roundtable

314

Less Nukes and More Prosperity

315

FRV: The Great State of Miscellaneous

316

The Nordic Theory of Everything

317

FRV: Steak-umm's Feud with Neil DeGrasse Tyson

318

Journalists Are Too Cozy with the Political Class

319

FRV: Yorkshire Werewolf Tourism

320

America Versus Britain on Liberty

321

FRV: The Official State Tool of Tennessee

322

The Managerial Class vs. Everyone Else

323

FRV: Soviet Television's Lord of the Rings

324

How to Be A Better Vulcan

325

BONUS: How Parties Rig the System

326

FRV 90,000 Greasy Pennies

327

The Smartest Way to Tax People

328

FRV: Mafia YouTube Cooking Tutorials

329

What the Hell Is Social Capital?

330

Friday Release Valve: Japan Has the Coolest Political Party

331

Justin Amash Wants to Unclog Congress

332

FRV: Nebraska's Diehard Meat Rivalry

333

Why Universities Lean Left

334

FRV: China Bans Funeral Strippers

335

Politics As the New Religion with Caleb O. Brown

336

Friday Release Valve: Dutch Snowman Murders

337

How to Spook the Politics Industry

338

Fake News Headlines: The Game Show

339

Please Don't Double the Minimum Wage

340

The Return of Kid Cop - Friday Release Valve

341

The Economics of Happiness

342

Don't Drive on Laughing Gas - Friday Release Valve

343

Gun Deaths by the Numbers

344

Bigfoot Hunting Season - Friday Release Valve

345

Reddit vs Wall Street

346

FRV: Robot Police Dog Tax Expenditures

347

What to do About QAnon

348

FRV: The Official Massachusetts State Dinosaur

349

What Really Toppled the Berlin Wall

350

Toupee Drug Smuggling & Wine Cannons - Friday Release Valve

351

Weak Institutions Make a Sad Country

352

Friday Release Valve: Smuggling Ashes onto the International Space Station

353

What The Hell Just Happened?!

354

Larry Sharpe thinks Covid will Redshift America

355

Education Is Getting More Individualistic

356

A Grander Snuffy's Christmas

357

RERUN: Another Snuffy's Christmas

358

RERUN: A Very Snuffy's Christmas

359

Don't Throw Your Kids Over The Fence (Friday Release Valve)

360

Dana Perino On Being a White House Press Secretary

361

Capitalist Vaccines, Pardons, and American Hegemony - Roundtable

362

The Labor-Inducing Hamburger (Friday Release Valve)

363

Antifa! Proud Boys! Oath Keepers!

364

Don't Feed Your Friend to Bears (Friday Release Valve)

365

Calculating Existential Threat - Lord Martin Rees

366

Viagra, the Musical - Friday Release Valve

367

Machiavelli vs. John Stuart Mill

368

Literal Underwater Ponzi Schemes (Friday Release Valve)

369

The Election Wasn't Rigged

370

Protect Your Bank from Racoons (Friday Release Valve)

371

Jen Briney Thinks Congress is Tricking You

372

Oakland's Notoriously Violent Turkey - Friday Release Valve

373

What Roger Ailes Can Teach Us About Election Night

374

How Victory Will Jolt Republicans or Democrats

375

Wolves! Felons! Ranked Choice Voting! State Ballot Initiatives

376

British Supermarket Astronaut Chicken - Friday Release Valve

377

The Alliance Party, with Jim Rex and Michelle Griffith

378

Jo Jorgensen and Spike Cohen: The Libertarians

379

Don Blankenship & The Constitution Party

380

Howie Hawkins & The Green Party

381

The Lads Behind The Babylon Bee (Friday Release Valve)

382

Voter Fraud Is More Troubling Than I Thought

383

Decolonize Your Lawn with Jack and Brian (FRV)

384

Why Election Riots Are Guaranteed

385

I Got Robbed in Oakland, California

386

Crocodile Ransom Laws (Friday Release Valve)

387

Libertarian Constitutionalism - Featuring: Tim Sandefur

388

Originalism - Featuring: Christopher R. Green

389

The Living Constitution - Featuring: David Strauss

390

Judge Andrew Napolitano on Natural Law

391

The Role of Judges

392

Glorious Asbestos, Quebec (Friday Release Valve)

393

The Presidential Debate Was Mostly Heckling

394

We Support Getting Elephants High (Friday Release Valve)

395

The Neurochemicals of Politics

396

Armed Monkey Scarecrows (Friday Release Valve)

397

PJ O'Rourke On The Deep Middle (Corrected)

398

Like the Paris Review (For Porn) - Friday Release Valve

399

Thomas Frank Is Sick of Anti-Populists

400

Murder in a Safe in a Field (Friday Release Valve)

401

Why UFOs Are in the News

402

Mississippi Alternate Flag Ideas (FRV)

403

Do Political Parties Threaten the Constitution?

404

The Guns for Trumpets Buyback Program (Friday Release Valve)

405

The Postal Service Isn't Rigging The Election And We Should Privatize It Anyway

406

Paul McCartney for Chief of Walpole! (Friday Release Valve)

407

Brace Yourself for Kamala Harris

408

The English Are Arming Baboons (Friday Release Valve)

409

Cass Sunstein on Smarter Regulations and Less Conformity

410

Joaquin Phoenix Hostage Scenario (Friday Release Valve)

411

America Had a Coup in 2010

412

I AM RUNNING IN 2020!

413

You're Doing the Culture War Wrong

414

The Outer Limits of Hot Dog-Eating Contests (Friday Release Valve)

415

Rutger Bregman: "Lord of the Flies" Got Things Wrong

416

Brilliant Solutions for Pesky Statues (Friday Release Valve)

417

Daryl Davis Attends Klan Rallies

418

Italian Death Penalty Bear Courts (Friday Release Valve)

419

How To Not Think Religiously About Climate Change

420

Don't Use Artillery Shells as Doorstops (Friday Release Valve)

421

So What Would Happen if We Legalized Heroin?

422

Pneumatic Parrot Tubes & German Trains (Friday Release Valve)

423

Universal Basic Income vs. Sprawling Bureaucracy

424

Bidding on Souls, and Australian Sex Mishaps (Friday Release Valve)

425

What's all this "Defund the Police" stuff about?

426

What the Hell Is Happening, and How Can We Help?

427

Lockdown is Awkward for Polygamists (Friday Release Valve)

428

How Money Actually Works in Congress

429

French Serial Killers, Prince Harry, and Strip Club Law (Friday Comedy Headlines)

430

How Innovation Works - Featuring: Matt Ridley

431

Emu Wars and Pirate Jet Skis (NSFK) - Week's Underserved Headlines

432

Cagematch: Locke vs. Hobbes vs. Rousseau

433

Wild Boars on Cocaine - The Week's Underserved Headlines

434

How Captain Kirk Would Solve the Lockdown (Bonus)

435

Justin Amash: Spoiler Candidate or Sane Alternative?

436

When a Government Accidentally Declares You Dead (Friday Release Valve)

437

How Vladimir Putin Thinks

438

Desperately Needed Optimism from Matt Ridley

439

Bernie Sanders is the Ron Paul of Socialism

440

What the Hell is Happening with the Economy?

441

PSA: What To Expect the Next Two Weeks

442

Three Ways to Stop Corrupt Congressmen

443

What Your Life Costs, According to Uncle Sam (Bonus)

444

Politicians Make Poor Superheroes

445

Live from Snuffy's Fallout Shelter: The Corona Episode

446

We're Against Abolishing the Electoral College, Apparently

447

Late Night Comedy vs. the Outrage Industry

448

You're Doing Prison Wrong

449

Meet the Libertarian Candidates

450

Rush Limbaugh and Virtue Ethics - BONUS

451

Global Elitists vs. Very Loud Populists - Featuring: Joel Stein

452

Who's the Democratic Candidate Gonna Be?

453

Don't Screw This Up, New Hampshire

454

How to Talk to Insufferable Ideologues - Featuring: Peter Boghossian

455

PJ O'Rourke Wants to Leave You Alone

456

How to Unstuck Idiot Political Beliefs

457

Tim Heidecker & Gregg Turkington on Political Satire

458

What the Hell is Happening with Iran?! Featuring: Matt Welch

459

John McAfee Is On The Lam!

460

Another Snuffy's Christmas

461

How to Fix American Healthcare in Under an Hour - Featuring: Rick Ungar

462

The Future of Space Exploration - Featuring: Astronaut Tom Jones

463

The Trump Impeachment is Basically Caddyshack - Featuring: Michael Baranowski

464

Popehat: Speech That Gets You Tossed in Prison - Featuring: Ken White

465

I Am Betting Money Hillary Doesn't Run - Featuring J. M. Jennings

466

Taxing Billionaires into Extinction - Featuring: Josie "The Red-Headed Libertarian"

467

A Comedian Runs for Congress - Featuring: Mike Larsen

468

Jesus Christ Did Not Personally Consecrate Trump - Featuring: Ben Howe

469

Hillary Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard Slapfight - Featuring: Justin Robert Young

470

Why Republicans and Democrats Think Differently - Featuring: Dr. Matt Grossmann

471

Ranting About Scotch Tariffs! Featuring: Jeremey Kareken and Eric Boehm

472

Steampunk Gun Control Solutions - Featuring: Charles Cooke

473

Trump and Ukraine (But also Aliens) - Featuring: Turner Sparks & Brian Sack

474

Which Democrat Would You Go Camping With? Featuring: David Carl & Jeremy Kareken

475

Iceland: Ally, Neighbor, Lover, Volcano

476

Grover Norquist Goes to Burning Man

477

Dave Barry Is Running for President!

478

Bernie vs. Elizabeth Warren - Featuring: Justin Robert Young & Brian Brushwood

479

The Last English Libertarian - Featuring: Dominic Frisby

480

Scottish Political Correctness - Featuring: Leo Kearse

481

DEFECTORS! Justin Amash, Lincoln Chafee, Bill Weld, Mark Sanford - Featuring: Rick Ungar

482

George Will Saves America, Baseball, the GOP, etc.

483

Is Women's Soccer and/or the Wage Gap Real? Featuring: Turner Sparks & Andrea Jones-Rooy

484

Should We Add Another Thousand Congressmen?

485

Ep 142 | The Final Episode

486

Ep 141 | The Fermi Paradox | Guest: Jennings

487

Ep 140 | What Is 'Bladerunner' Really About? | Guest: Ben Domenech

488

Ep 139 | 'Unsolved Mysteries' Meets 'In Search of Bigfoot' | Guest: Jennings

489

Ep 138 | The New Right, the Alt Right, and the Evangelical Left | Guest: Michael Malice

490

Ep 137 | Kim Kardashian Will Run for President | Guest: Justin Robert Young

491

Ep 136 | We Don't Need No Stinkin' Marriage Licenses | Guest: Tom Brennan

492

Ep 135 | How to Actually Unplug from the Grid | Guests: Chris Moody and Cristi Moody

493

Ep 134 | North Korean Snake Bile Whiskey | Guest: Jaron Myers

494

Ep 133 | Everything You Know About Nukes Is Wrong | Guest: Ward Wilson

495

Ep 132 | We Should Absolutely Legalize Mushrooms | Guest: Mike Riggs

496

Ep 131 | Justin Amash Goes Rogue on Trump | Guest: Brian Brushwood

497

Ep 130 | Can Ravens Save Britain from Brexit Apocalypse? Friday Release Valve | Guest: Turner Sparks

498

Ep 129 | Time to Put Your Brain in a Computer | Guest: Robin Hanson

499

Ep 128 | Am I a Neoliberal Shill? Are You? | Guest: Colin Mortimer

500

Ep 127 | Bail Ideas for When I Finally Get Arrested | Guest: Andrea Coleman

501

Ep 126 | John Bolton is the World's Most Dangerous Mustache | Guest: Jason Buttrill

502

Ep 125 | Would You Campaign on Pornhub? | Guest: Kevin Seefried

503

Ep 124 | These Damn College Kids! | Guest: Robby Soave

504

Ep 123 | Alienating the Audience: Game of Thrones | Guest: Grant Carlisle

505

Ep 122 | What the Hell is 'Dark Money'? | Guest: Dave Levinthal

506

Ep 121 | Mother's Day Special

507

Ep 120 | The Spy Whale Who Loved Me | Guest: Lou Perez

508

Ep 119 | How Harlots Saved America | Guest: Thaddeus Russell

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Ep 118 | A Great Way to Screw Up the Economy | Guest: Jeremy Kareken

510

Ep 117 | Criminology Lessons from a Prison Rodeo | Guest: German Lopez

511

Ep 116 | How We Beat Those Neanderthals | Guest: Natalia Reagan

512

Ep 115 | The World's Sexiest Accent | Guest: Brian Sack

513

Ep 114 | Why Do We Love Conspiracy Theories? | Guest: Jesse Walker

514

Ep 113 | That's Not Socialism, Dammit! | Guest: Justin Haskins

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Ep 112 | The Student Loan Bubble Is Filled with Swamp Gas | Guest: Royce Sharp

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Ep 111 | Good Fare, Bad Fare, We All Scream for Welfare | Guest: Deanna Easley

517

Ep 110 | The Time the Brits Accused Me of Gun-Smuggling | Guest: Bridget Phetasy

518

Ep 109 | Loneliness Is Worse for Cities than Godzilla | Guest: Tim Carney

519

Ep 108 | Am I Castrating Libertarians? | Guest: Gene Epstein

520

Ep 107 | Conservatives on Climate Change | Guest: Stu Burguiere

521

Ep 106 | Capitalist Solutions to Global Warming | Guest: Jerry Taylor

522

Ep 105 | Why Robots Will Never Replace Comedians — Friday Release Valve | Guest: Andrea Jones-Rooy

523

Ep 104 | This Historian Can Predict Your Politics by Your Age | Guest: Neil Howe

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Ep 103 | How to Liposuction Bile out of Politics | Guest: Arthur Brooks

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Ep 102 | Bernie Sanders Visits Rupert Murdoch's Death Star | Guest: Brian Brushwood

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Ep 101 | Can Space Force Stop Somali Rocket Pirates? | Guest: Anthony Colangelo

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Ep 100 | Playboy Bunny Lawn Ornaments—Friday Release Valve | Guest: Jaron Myers

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Ep 99 | A British Slum Doctor Tackles Poverty | Guest: Theodore Dalrymple

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Ep 98 | I Want to Build a Moon Base | Guest: Robert Zubrin

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Ep 97 | Is Batman Libertarian? — Alienating the Audience | Guest: Megan Sass

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Ep 96 | How to Make Partisan Hacks Nervous | Guest: Dan Fishman

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Ep 95 | Improve CNN by Adding Bears | Guest: Jimmy Failla

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Ep 94 | The Politics of Dune: Alienating the Audience | Guest: Ben Brockschmidt

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Ep 93 | Where Can We Touch Joe Biden? | Guest: Negin Farsad

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Ep 92 | Jesus, Sex, and Reality TV | Guest: Phil Robertson

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Ep 91 | Something Polish This Way Comes | Guest: Brian Sack

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Ep 90 | Donkeyball and Competitive Russian Slapfighting—Friday Release Valve / Guest: Turner Sparks

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Ep 89 | Adam Smith & The Wealth of Nations | Guest: P.J. O'Rourke

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Ep 88 | 'Pervert Capitalism' | Guest: Rick Ungar

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Ep 87 | Boost Your Widget Sales Through Tribalism | Guest: Mike May

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Ep 86 | The Mueller Probing | Guest: Justin Robert Young

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Ep 85 | The Very Last Blockbuster — Friday Release Valve | Guest: Remy Munasifi

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Ep 84 | How to Grok North Korea | Guest: Michael Malice

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Ep 83 | The Age We Should Legally Vote/Drink/Shoot/Mate | Guest: Matt Kibbe

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Ep 82 | The President as Father, Warrior, Chaplain, Celebrity, Lover ... | Guest: Rob Montz

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Ep 81 | Is 'The Orville' More 'Star Trek' than 'Star Trek'? | Guest: Dan Maffei

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Ep 80 | Whales on Ambien—Friday Release Valve | Guest: Chad Prather

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Ep 79 | Donald Trump's Social Media Sledgehammer | Guest: Dr. Brian Ott

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Ep 78 | You Can't Undo a Hanging | Guest: Jason Buttrill

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Ep 77 | The Least and Most Partisan Counties in America | Guest: Andrea Jones-Rooy

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Ep 76 | The FDA Mirage | Guest: Stu Burguiere

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Ep 75 | Who Has the Biggest Moose? | Guest: Kevin Seefried

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Ep 74 | The Government's Nuclear Doomsday Plans | Guest: Garrett M. Graff

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Ep 73 | Who's The Next Jeb? | Guests: Justin Robert Young & Brian Brushwood

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Ep 72 | The Engorged Presidency | Senator Mike Lee

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Ep 71 | Marie Kondo: An Alternative to Bernie and Tucker | Guest: Katherine Mangu-Ward

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Ep 70 | Parrots as Anti-Opiod Weaponry: Friday Release Valve | Guest Mike Kaplan

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Ep 69 | Race as a Social Construct | Guest: Commander Dale Brown

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Ep 68 | Will A.I. Murder us to Fight Cancer? | Guests: Joe Leonardo & David Polgar

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Ep 67 | Jussie Smollett Loves Subway Sandwiches! | Guest: Turner Sparks

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Ep 66 | What's More Frightening Than A Nuclear Arms Race? | Guest: Jason Buttrill

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Ep 65 | A Bucket of Radioactive Rocks—Friday Release Valve | Guest: Jaron Myers

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Ep 64 | "Best Mustache Award," and Other Ways to Fix the Oscars | Guest: Andrew Young

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Ep 63 | The Impact of The Twilight Zone | Guest: James III

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Ep 62 | The Transgender Military Ban | Guest: Carina Magyar

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Ep 61 | The New Right | Guest: Lauren Chen

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Ep 60 | Requiem for the Prince of the Outback

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Ep 59 | Tales from a Sex Cult | Guest: Bridget Phetasy

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Ep 58 | The Fight over Feminism | Guest: Cathy Reisenwitz

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Ep 57 | The Great Leap Forward Something Something Wind Power | Guest: Brian Brushwood

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Ep 56 | The Great American Sex Desert | Guest: Billy Binion

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Ep. 55 | The Super Model Amusement Park | Guest: Jimmy Failla

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Ep. 54 | Is "South Park" Postmodern? | Guest: Nick Gillespie

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Ep. 53 | The Imperial Address to the House of Lords And/Or Congress | Guest: Justin Robert Young

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Ep. 52 | Public Schools and Monkey Gods | Guest: Jonathan Braylock

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Ep. 51 | The NFL Team Not Stealing from Taxpayers | Guest: Eric Boehm

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Ep. 50 | What Your Hunter-Gatherer Genes Really Want | Guest: Sebastian Junger

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Ep. 49 | Why Does Everyone Hate Howard Schultz? | Guest: Turner Sparks

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Ep. 48 | Would Norman Rockwell legalize prostitution? | Guest: Elizabeth Nolan Brown

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Ep. 47 | Venezuela's Utterly Avoidable Catastrophe | Guest: Brian Brushwood

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Ep. 46 | Media Pet Peeves | Guest: J. W. Crump

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Ep. 45 | Why We'll Never Need a Pencil Czar | Guest: Tom Woods

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Ep. 44 | Prince Philip, Volcano God | Guest: Chad Prather

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Ep. 43 | The Various Species of Democrats | Guest: John DeVore

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Ep. 42 | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Death of Math | Guest: Liz Wolfe

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Ep . 41 | Let's all Jump to Explosive, Unbridled Hate over the MAGA Boy | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie

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Ep. 40 | The Politics of Star Wars | Guest: Stephen Kent

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Ep. 39 | The Secret Conservative Hollywood Speakeasy | Guest: Michael Loftus

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Ep. 38 | Can Robots Save Us From Gerrymandering? | Guest: Eric Boehm

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Ep. 37 | Please Topple Steve King | Guest: Chad Prather

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Ep. 36 | Reasons to Avoid Saying "Uppity" | Guest: Deanna Easley

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Ep. 35 | What Do Your Morals Taste Like? | Guest: Jonathan Haidt

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Ep. 34 | Hello Gridlock, meet Trench Warfare | Guest: Andrea Jones-Rooy

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Ep. 33 | Dale Brown Doesn't Need a Gun | Guest: Commander Dale Brown

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Ep. 32 | Could You Fake Being a Republican? | Guest: Brian Brushwood

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Ep. 31 | Mad Max Apocalypse in National Parks! | Guest: Justin Young

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Ep. 30 | A Very Snuffy's Christmas

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Ep. 29 | Facebook, Russia, and Identity Politics | Guest: Chad Prather

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Ep. 28 | The Country Isn't Polarized | Guest: Morris Fiorina

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Ep. 27 | America's Got Talent | Guest: Vicki Barbolak

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Ep. 26 | Can I get a farm subsidy for my house plant? | Guest: Christian Britschgi

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Ep. 25 | Railing Against Minimum Wage | Guest: Brian Brushwood

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Ep. 24 | Libertarianism, Socialism, and NASA | Guest: Gene Epstein

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Ep. 23 | Who's In The Clink and Who's Not? | Guest: Turner Sparks

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Ep. 22 | What's The Brexit Fight Over Now | Guest: Juliet Samuel

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Ep. 21 | BIAS! | Guest: Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy

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Ep. 20 | What Is Populism and How Do We Drown It | Guest: Jason Buttrill

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Ep. 19 | The Coddling of the American Mind | Guest: Greg Lukianoff

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Ep. 18 | Everything's Cheaper, Faster, Madder | Guest: Remy Munasifi

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Ep. 17 | Will We Automate You? | Guests: Joe Leonardo and David Ryan Polgar

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Ep. 16 | Are British people human? How do they think? | Guest: Zoe Samuel

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Ep. 15 | Why George HW Bush Is Underrated

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Ep. 14 |The Politics of Star Trek | Guest: Tim Sandefur

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Ep. 13 | Designer Babies and Animal News | Guest: J. W. Crump

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Ep. 12 | An Interview With Bigfoot | Guest: Justin Young

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Ep. 11 | Why Are We in Yemen and Where Is It | Guest: Brian Brushwood

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Ep. 10 | Tear Gas at the Border | Guest: Royce Sharp

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Ep. 9 | Botham Jean and Cross Burnings | Guest: Deanna Easley

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Ep. 8 | Puppy Grooming Licenses | Guest: Shoshanna Weissman

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Ep. 7 | Stock Market Tips from Oblivious Comedians | Guest: Mahesh Kotagi

621

Ep. 6 | The Mathematical Case Against Democracy | Guest: Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy

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Ep. 5 l The Three Languages of Politics | Guest: Arnold Kling

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Ep. 4 | Amazon Should Build Its Own City | Guest: Jim Swift

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Ep. 3 | Ghosts and Creepy Dolls on Paranormal News | Guest: Brian Brushwood

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Ep. 2 | The Exhausted Middle | Guest: Royce Sharp

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Ep. 1 | Censorship in China | Guest: Turner Sparks