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1

Why Nobody Trusts the News: Isaac Saul

2

I Ask an Amish Guy about Everything

3

Revenge of the Non-Profits

4

George Washington's Anti-Daddy

5

How Harlots Saved America (Rebroadcast)

6

America's Dueling Enlightenments (Rebroadcast)

7

Cicero and the Founding Fathers (Rebroadcast)

8

Zuby Grew up in a Company Town

9

(Preview) Vampire Bats Thwart Henry Ford

10

The Dark Side of Corporate Utopia: Pullman vs. Hershey

11

(Preview) The Socialist Who Bought a Town

12

The Emperor of Epcot: Walt Disney and Company Towns

13

Privacy Through a Cop's Eyes

14

The Old Political Order Is Dying: Stephen Davies on the Great Realignment

15

The Great Baby Shortage

16

Falsely Convicted of Murder (Bonus Sample)

17

Fighting Crime Like an Economist

18

The Non-Profit Industrial Complex

19

Hahaha! Warrant? What Warrant?!

20

Your Friends Are Wrong About the Supreme Court: Sarah Isgur

21

War Without Coffins

22

The Travails of Afroman and Lindy West (WSPN)

23

How To Deal with Political Lizard People

24

Interview with the Mega Warden

25

What's Prison Hooch Taste Like?

26

Parenting Behind Bars

27

Maine is Smarter Than Your State about Prison

28

Heaton Goes to Prison

29

Richer Than Ever, Miserable Anyway

30

A.I. and the Future of Scams

31

Undeclared Wars

32

How the Court Neutered Trump

33

Grover Norquist at Burning Man (Rebroadcast)

34

Governing through Blockchain: Techno-Communes (Preview)

35

How to Build a Commune: Samwise Rodriguez

36

Jeff Flake Alone on an Island with a Knife

37

The Map That Explains Everything About America: Colin Woodard

38

America is Eleven Different Countries (Rebroadcast)

39

I Time Traveled to Talk to Medieval Yokels about Economics

40

MLK and Color Blindness

41

The Friendship Recession and Cocktail Parties

42

I Explain Venezuela Using Lottery Tickets

43

Is Everyone Disabled Now? (WSPN)

44

Heaton and Monkey: Yuletide Spysolvers

45

Jason Pargin on Internet Addiction and Algorithmic Horror

46

The Secret Map of Supreme Court Justices

47

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

48

Squanto the Power Broker

49

Cash for Kidneys

50

"The Walking Dead" and Pagan Values

51

SHUTDOWN: The Musical

52

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

53

America's Two Angry Dads: Jefferson and Hamilton

54

The Ethics of Performing for Dictators

55

(Sneak Peak) From Branding to the Electric Chair

56

How Texas Blocked Pornhub

57

The Fight Over Gay Characters in Public Schools

58

Rogue Judges and Birthright Citizenship

59

Katie Herzog Gives Me Advice On My Drinking Problem

60

Daryl Davis Attends Klan Rallies (Rebroadcast)

61

Why Europe is Poorer than America

62

Does Liberalism Eat Itself?

63

Charlie Kirk and the Heinous "Other"

64

What Happens When the Ayatollah Falls?

65

Sweden Tried Socialism So You Don't Have To

66

What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?

67

To Make a Terrifying Spoiler Candidate

68

Greg Lukianoff is Worried About Free Speech

69

But Gene Epstein Hates the Fed

70

What the Hell Does the Federal Reserve Do?

71

How to Become Rich Serving in Congress

72

China Hates These Two People

73

The Two Times We Invaded Canada

74

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

75

Government Grocery Stores and Free Bussing! (WSPN)

76

Churchill, Non-Proliferation, and Iranian Nuclear Ambitions

77

Assassins Part III: An Anarchist Murders McKinley

78

Assassins Part I: Shooting Andrew Jackson

79

How Godzilla Beat the Housing Crisis

80

This Book Will Upset Your Textbook

81

Make Hollywood Great Again?

82

Why You Need a License for Everything

83

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

84

Is it Racist? Is it Sexist?

85

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

86

Trump, Napoleon III, and the Global Economic Order

87

Cory Doctorow on the Evils of Copyright Law

88

Near Death Experiences, with Sebastian Junger

89

Deporting Khalil

90

I Talk to a DEI Consultant about DEI

91

Your Kids and The Department of Education

92

Jeff Maurer: Revenge of the Low-Flow Toilets

93

Jonathan Rauch: Christianity Dropped the Ball on Democracy

94

Sex by the Numbers

95

TRADE WAR! (Probably)

96

Trump's Whack-A-Mole with Federal Employees

97

Death Row Pen Pals

98

How Billionaires Think About Philanthropy

99

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

100

A Theme Park for Kids with Disabilities (And Everyone)

101

The Alzheimer's Choir

102

The Pragmatist's Guide to Politics

103

The Library of Mistakes

104

Black People and White People Advice

105

Heaton and Monkey: Yuletide Crimesolvers (1987)

106

The Original War on Christmas

107

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

108

Life After Prison

109

Chimp Politics

110

What Sparked the Great Awokening

111

What Can the President Actually Do on Trade?

112

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

113

Our Dumb Election: The Musical

114

Flee Not To Canada, My Countrymen (Live Show)

115

Pitch me on Trump: Austin Petersen

116

Pitch me on Kamala Harris: Jeremiah Johnson & Jeff Maurer

117

The Green Party, War, and Ecosocialism

118

Cornel West: The People's Party

119

Chase Oliver: The Libertarian

120

How Tribalism Ruined Politics (NEW HEATON BOOK!)

121

Paternalism as Class Warfare

122

Kevin Williamson on Political Anxiety, The Future, Eating Cats

123

Fetishizing Jobs

124

Maybe I'm Wrong About Woke?

125

Stupid Taxes vs. Smart Taxes

126

Why Nations Fail

127

What the DNC Means by "Freedom"

128

The Good and Bad on Tim Walz

129

How to Stop A Drug Cartel

130

Collapse of the Middle: Scott Klug

131

The College Cartel

132

Matt Taibbi Against the Gatekeepers

133

Hulk Hogan Formally Endorses Donald Trump

134

So Who's this Vance, Then?

135

Bad Takes on a Near Miss

136

The Tory Downfall and What it Means

137

Homeless Thought Experiments

138

Presidential Immunity & Death Squads

139

Bump Stocks, Guns, and Psycho Ex-Boyfriends

140

Chevron is Dead

141

Debate!: The Musical

142

The War On Prices

143

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

144

The Economics of Midlife Crises

145

Presenting LPS: America's Most Colorful Quack

146

Trump Conviction: Kangaroo Court or Al Capone?

147

Batya Ungar-Sargan on the Working Class

148

The Difference Between Psychopaths and Sociopaths

149

How Nations Escape Poverty

150

Cicero and the Founding Fathers

151

College Campuses Are So Very Very Passionate (WSPN)

152

Understanding Immigration Through Circus Folk

153

Was Life Easier in the Fifties?

154

What People Get Wrong About A. I.

155

Why Violent Crime is Up

156

Just How Much Fraud is in Government?

157

Totalitarianism and the Gays

158

Trump, RICO Law, and Lawyer Sex

159

The Economics of Illegal Immigration

160

The New Mao

161

America is Eleven Different Countries

162

Working with Commies and Frenchmen

163

The Politics of Artificial Intelligence

164

The Two Kinds of Independents

165

Knocking Trump Off the Ballot

166

Iowa, Ancient Greece, and Rome

167

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

168

Moon Base Economics

169

The Cancelling of the American Mind

170

David Brooks Wants To Know You Better

171

A Very Snuffy's Rerun

172

A Rugged Snuffy's Christmas

173

Dead People Control Your House: Deed Restrictions

174

Life After Home Internet

175

Revolt of the Jury: Jury Nullification

176

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

177

How Nuclear Deterrence Works

178

Cenk Uygur And Polemicism

179

"Trickle Down Economics"

180

When Identities Fuse in Politics

181

But If There's No Free Will…

182

The Actual Deep State

183

Your Invisible Rights: Randy Barnett

184

Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap

185

Michael Malice Vs. the Soviet Union

186

John Stossel Gives Me Journalism Advice

187

The Plunder of the Commons

188

When Your Home Town Gets Invaded

189

Clean Energy and Yucky Energy: Michael Webber

190

UFO Whistleblowers and Congress

191

Nuclear Renaissance of Tomorrow

192

Upwingers Fighting Downwingers

193

Lizard People and SuperPACs

194

How to Spot Statistical Garbage

195

Government Minus Geography

196

The Economics of Bad Films

197

Clarence Thomas Hates Affirmative Action

198

The Longest Happiness Study in History

199

Cancel Culture Runs Out of Steam (WSPN)

200

Because of the Commerce Clause!

201

Big Ag's Meat Ethics

202

The Three Personalities in Politics

203

What Happens with the National Debt

204

Was Abraham Lincoln Leftwing or Rightwing?

205

Disneyland with The Death Penalty: Singapore

206

Confirmation Bias is Hilarious But Expensive

207

Salesmen Beat Engineers at Politics

208

The Answer is Always Status

209

Capitalism Remains Undefeated!

210

What Do Marxists Actually Think?

211

Sucks to Legally Immigrate

212

Coastal Bias

213

Would You Shut Down the Internet, If You Could?

214

How to Run a Scottish City

215

Design Your City's Ugly Away - Dave Amos

216

Sim City Was Always Wrong

217

What Do Mayors Actually Do? - David Holt

218

The Coming Suburban Apocalypse - Charles Marohn

219

Why Do We Do Tipping? (WSPN)

220

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

221

Addicted to Dopamine

222

The Dictator's Handbook

223

Bonus: Ukraine Counterpoint with Kristaps

224

The Cost of Ukraine

225

Why America Can't Europe

226

Stanford's Forbidden Words of Hilarious Evil

227

ATA: Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling

228

Fix Teenagers By Putting Them to Work

229

Here's Why Partisanship is Skyrocketing

230

Automation Comes for Lawyers and Shrinks

231

Inequality and the New Feudalism

232

Snuffy's Explosion-Proof Christmas

233

Carnage and Blowback in American Foreign Policy

234

We're Defining Inequality Wrong

235

Bill Kristol on Military Intervention

236

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

237

What Skinny Dipping Taught Me About Greed

238

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

239

We Should Abolish Student Councils

240

The Huge, Dumb Permit You've Never Heard Of

241

So I Got Canceled at Oxford

242

The Iranian Regime Still Sucks

243

Who Screwed Up Worst on Covid

244

Russia's Sham Referendums in Ukraine

245

Make Congressmen Share a District

246

America Ought to Get Herself A King

247

Who Actually Survives a Nuclear War

248

The Rules of Getting and Keeping Power

249

The Church of Woke

250

(Rebroadcast) The Berlin Wall

251

How Nazis Thought About Economics

252

Space Bureaucrats vs. Space Billionaires

253

The Supreme Court Messed Up on Prayer in Schools

254

Can I Eat Peyote if it's Religious?

255

Hunting for Theocracy in America

256

Bad News About Humane Warfare

257

America's Dueling Enlightenments

258

When To Scrap Politically Incorrect Words

259

Inflation Is Losing You Money

260

How to Change Your Idiot Uncle's Mind About Stuff

261

Every Time We've Rigged the Supreme Court

262

The Laws and Economics of Treasure Hunting

263

A Spock and Scotty Approach to Gun Control

264

Other Nations Are Insufficiently Horny

265

Real Science Hates Scientism

266

What Happens When You Get Canceled

267

(Rebroadcast) Originalism - How Conservative Judges Think

268

(Rebroadcast) The Living Constitution - How Liberal Judges Think

269

The Guts of Roe v. Wade

270

The Duopoly Hates Third Parties

271

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

272

Why I'm an Angry Carnivore

273

Does Local Control Actually Work?

274

Woke Hysteria Is Actually Class Warfare

275

Why Monkey Groupthink Beats Human Logic

276

Crony Capitalists Are Spoiling Your Food

277

How to Prevent or Provoke Stupid Wars

278

The Brain Fog of War

279

Ukraine is Backfiring on Putin

280

Sanctions are the Virtue Signaling of Economics

281

Time Travel Bureaucracy / New Audio Book

282

Why Revolutions Ignite or Flop

283

PJ O'Rourke Once Got Me Laid

284

Joe Rogan and the Authoritarians

285

Joe Biden's Identity Politics

286

Adventures in Psychedelic Drugs

287

The Best Tiny House Village in America

288

Homelessness, and Our Stupid Solutions

289

WSPN: Omicron, Afghanistan, and Antiwork

290

If Aliens Landed Tomorrow

291

ALL the Immigrants! All of 'em!

292

White House Spy Protocols (and Cooking)

293

A Rather Snuffy's Christmas

294

Bonus: Let's Have an Uncomfortable Gender Conversation

295

The Enemies Of How We Know Stuff

296

Amusing Ourselves to Death

297

Stadium Subsidies Are Unfathomably Stupid

298

How War Shapes Us

299

Matt Ridley and Alina Chan on the Origin of Covid

300

Andrew Yang Goes AWOL

301

What Makes a Joke Offensive

302

John McWhorter on Victimhood and Woke Racism

303

The Reproductive Life of Good and Bad Policies

304

The Thing No Government Can Actually Do

305

George Will on Synthetic Hysteria

306

Politicians Hate Big Tech

307

Society Once Tried to Ban Teddy Bears

308

Bonus: What Napoleon Teaches Us About Foreign Policy

309

How To Zero In On Reality

310

How To Destroy a Country In Four Years

311

Are We Fixing or Ruining Welfare? (WSPN Roundtable)

312

Friday Release Valve is Back! (But Moving)

313

How Zoning Laws Screwed Up Everything

314

Bonus: The Alternative to Winston Churchill

315

Nation Building Failed in Afghanistan

316

Andrew Sullivan is a Gay Catholic Conservative

317

Harvard vs Asians: Affirmative Action and Racial Quotas

318

Cancel Culture Is Mostly Rich White People

319

Would You Maroon Jeff Bezos in Space?

320

Why Comedy Became Toothless

321

Los Angeles is Hideous

322

Michael Malice on Anarchism

323

Authoritarianism On the Rise

324

Don't Give Energy to Political Bullies

325

How Weighted Voting Could Actually Work

326

The Difference Between Liberals and Leftists

327

Why You Can't Drop Student Loans through Bankruptcy

328

Why College is So Freakin' Expensive?

329

Chinese Social Engineering – WSPN Roundtable

330

Less Nukes and More Prosperity

331

FRV: The Great State of Miscellaneous

332

The Nordic Theory of Everything

333

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

334

Journalists Are Too Cozy with the Political Class

335

FRV: Yorkshire Werewolf Tourism

336

America Versus Britain on Liberty

337

FRV: The Official State Tool of Tennessee

338

The Managerial Class vs. Everyone Else

339

FRV: Soviet Television's Lord of the Rings

340

How to Be A Better Vulcan

341

BONUS: How Parties Rig the System

342

FRV 90,000 Greasy Pennies

343

The Smartest Way to Tax People

344

FRV: Mafia YouTube Cooking Tutorials

345

What the Hell Is Social Capital?

346

Friday Release Valve: Japan Has the Coolest Political Party

347

Justin Amash Wants to Unclog Congress

348

FRV: Nebraska's Diehard Meat Rivalry

349

Why Universities Lean Left

350

FRV: China Bans Funeral Strippers

351

Politics As the New Religion with Caleb O. Brown

352

Friday Release Valve: Dutch Snowman Murders

353

How to Spook the Politics Industry

354

Fake News Headlines: The Game Show

355

Please Don't Double the Minimum Wage

356

The Return of Kid Cop - Friday Release Valve

357

The Economics of Happiness

358

Don't Drive on Laughing Gas - Friday Release Valve

359

Gun Deaths by the Numbers

360

Bigfoot Hunting Season - Friday Release Valve

361

Reddit vs Wall Street

362

FRV: Robot Police Dog Tax Expenditures

363

What to do About QAnon

364

FRV: The Official Massachusetts State Dinosaur

365

What Really Toppled the Berlin Wall

366

Toupee Drug Smuggling & Wine Cannons - Friday Release Valve

367

Weak Institutions Make a Sad Country

368

Friday Release Valve: Smuggling Ashes onto the International Space Station

369

What The Hell Just Happened?!

370

Larry Sharpe thinks Covid will Redshift America

371

Education Is Getting More Individualistic

372

A Grander Snuffy's Christmas

373

RERUN: Another Snuffy's Christmas

374

RERUN: A Very Snuffy's Christmas

375

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

376

Dana Perino On Being a White House Press Secretary

377

Capitalist Vaccines, Pardons, and American Hegemony - Roundtable

378

The Labor-Inducing Hamburger (Friday Release Valve)

379

Antifa! Proud Boys! Oath Keepers!

380

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

381

Calculating Existential Threat - Lord Martin Rees

382

Viagra, the Musical - Friday Release Valve

383

Machiavelli vs. John Stuart Mill

384

Literal Underwater Ponzi Schemes (Friday Release Valve)

385

The Election Wasn't Rigged

386

Protect Your Bank from Racoons (Friday Release Valve)

387

Jen Briney Thinks Congress is Tricking You

388

Oakland's Notoriously Violent Turkey - Friday Release Valve

389

What Roger Ailes Can Teach Us About Election Night

390

How Victory Will Jolt Republicans or Democrats

391

Wolves! Felons! Ranked Choice Voting! State Ballot Initiatives

392

British Supermarket Astronaut Chicken - Friday Release Valve

393

The Alliance Party, with Jim Rex and Michelle Griffith

394

Jo Jorgensen and Spike Cohen: The Libertarians

395

Don Blankenship & The Constitution Party

396

Howie Hawkins & The Green Party

397

The Lads Behind The Babylon Bee (Friday Release Valve)

398

Voter Fraud Is More Troubling Than I Thought

399

Decolonize Your Lawn with Jack and Brian (FRV)

400

Why Election Riots Are Guaranteed

401

I Got Robbed in Oakland, California

402

Crocodile Ransom Laws (Friday Release Valve)

403

Libertarian Constitutionalism - Featuring: Tim Sandefur

404

Originalism - Featuring: Christopher R. Green

405

The Living Constitution - Featuring: David Strauss

406

Judge Andrew Napolitano on Natural Law

407

The Role of Judges

408

Glorious Asbestos, Quebec (Friday Release Valve)

409

The Presidential Debate Was Mostly Heckling

410

We Support Getting Elephants High (Friday Release Valve)

411

The Neurochemicals of Politics

412

Armed Monkey Scarecrows (Friday Release Valve)

413

PJ O'Rourke On The Deep Middle (Corrected)

414

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

415

Thomas Frank Is Sick of Anti-Populists

416

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

417

Why UFOs Are in the News

418

Mississippi Alternate Flag Ideas (FRV)

419

Do Political Parties Threaten the Constitution?

420

The Guns for Trumpets Buyback Program (Friday Release Valve)

421

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

422

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

423

Brace Yourself for Kamala Harris

424

The English Are Arming Baboons (Friday Release Valve)

425

Cass Sunstein on Smarter Regulations and Less Conformity

426

Joaquin Phoenix Hostage Scenario (Friday Release Valve)

427

America Had a Coup in 2010

428

I AM RUNNING IN 2020!

429

You're Doing the Culture War Wrong

430

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

431

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

432

Brilliant Solutions for Pesky Statues (Friday Release Valve)

433

Daryl Davis Attends Klan Rallies

434

Italian Death Penalty Bear Courts (Friday Release Valve)

435

How To Not Think Religiously About Climate Change

436

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

437

So What Would Happen if We Legalized Heroin?

438

Pneumatic Parrot Tubes & German Trains (Friday Release Valve)

439

Universal Basic Income vs. Sprawling Bureaucracy

440

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

441

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

442

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

443

Lockdown is Awkward for Polygamists (Friday Release Valve)

444

How Money Actually Works in Congress

445

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

446

How Innovation Works - Featuring: Matt Ridley

447

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

448

Cagematch: Locke vs. Hobbes vs. Rousseau

449

Wild Boars on Cocaine - The Week's Underserved Headlines

450

How Captain Kirk Would Solve the Lockdown (Bonus)

451

Justin Amash: Spoiler Candidate or Sane Alternative?

452

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

453

How Vladimir Putin Thinks

454

Desperately Needed Optimism from Matt Ridley

455

Bernie Sanders is the Ron Paul of Socialism

456

What the Hell is Happening with the Economy?

457

PSA: What To Expect the Next Two Weeks

458

Three Ways to Stop Corrupt Congressmen

459

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

460

Politicians Make Poor Superheroes

461

Live from Snuffy's Fallout Shelter: The Corona Episode

462

We're Against Abolishing the Electoral College, Apparently

463

Late Night Comedy vs. the Outrage Industry

464

You're Doing Prison Wrong

465

Meet the Libertarian Candidates

466

Rush Limbaugh and Virtue Ethics - BONUS

467

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

468

Who's the Democratic Candidate Gonna Be?

469

Don't Screw This Up, New Hampshire

470

How to Talk to Insufferable Ideologues - Featuring: Peter Boghossian

471

PJ O'Rourke Wants to Leave You Alone

472

How to Unstuck Idiot Political Beliefs

473

Tim Heidecker & Gregg Turkington on Political Satire

474

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

475

John McAfee Is On The Lam!

476

Another Snuffy's Christmas

477

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

478

The Future of Space Exploration - Featuring: Astronaut Tom Jones

479

The Trump Impeachment is Basically Caddyshack - Featuring: Michael Baranowski

480

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

481

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

482

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

483

A Comedian Runs for Congress - Featuring: Mike Larsen

484

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

485

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

486

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

487

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

488

Steampunk Gun Control Solutions - Featuring: Charles Cooke

489

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

490

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

491

Iceland: Ally, Neighbor, Lover, Volcano

492

Grover Norquist Goes to Burning Man

493

Dave Barry Is Running for President!

494

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

495

The Last English Libertarian - Featuring: Dominic Frisby

496

Scottish Political Correctness - Featuring: Leo Kearse

497

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

498

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

499

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

500

Should We Add Another Thousand Congressmen?

501

Ep 142 | The Final Episode

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Ep 141 | The Fermi Paradox | Guest: Jennings

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

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

505

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

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

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

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

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

510

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

511

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

512

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

513

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

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

515

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

516

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

517

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

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

519

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

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

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

522

Ep 121 | Mother's Day Special

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

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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

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

527

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

528

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

529

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

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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

532

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

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

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

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

536

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

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

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

539

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

540

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

541

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

542

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

543

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

548

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

549

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

550

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

552

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

554

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

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

556

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

557

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

558

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

559

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

560

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

562

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

563

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

567

Ep 76 | The FDA Mirage | Guest: Stu Burguiere

568

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

569

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

570

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

571

Ep 72 | The Engorged Presidency | Senator Mike Lee

572

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

573

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

576

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

578

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

580

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

581

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

582

Ep 61 | The New Right | Guest: Lauren Chen

583

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

596

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

597

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

598

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

599

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

600

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

603

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

604

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

605

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

606

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

607

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

608

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

610

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

615

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

616

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

617

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

618

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

619

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

620

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

621

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

622

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

623

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

624

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

625

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

626

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

627

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

628

Ep. 15 | Why George HW Bush Is Underrated

629

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

630

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

631

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

632

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

633

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

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

635

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

636

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

637

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

638

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

639

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

640

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