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The Political Orphanage — 621 episodes

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1

The Travails of Afroman and Lindy West (WSPN)

2

How To Deal with Political Lizard People

3

Interview with the Mega Warden

4

What's Prison Hooch Taste Like?

5

Parenting Behind Bars

6

Maine is Smarter Than Your State about Prison

7

Heaton Goes to Prison

8

Richer Than Ever, Miserable Anyway

9

A.I. and the Future of Scams

10

Undeclared Wars

11

How the Court Neutered Trump

12

Grover Norquist at Burning Man (Rebroadcast)

13

Governing through Blockchain: Techno-Communes (Preview)

14

How to Build a Commune: Samwise Rodriguez

15

Jeff Flake Alone on an Island with a Knife

16

The Map That Explains Everything About America: Colin Woodard

17

America is Eleven Different Countries (Rebroadcast)

18

I Time Traveled to Talk to Medieval Yokels about Economics

19

MLK and Color Blindness

20

The Friendship Recession and Cocktail Parties

21

I Explain Venezuela Using Lottery Tickets

22

Is Everyone Disabled Now? (WSPN)

23

Heaton and Monkey: Yuletide Spysolvers

24

Jason Pargin on Internet Addiction and Algorithmic Horror

25

The Secret Map of Supreme Court Justices

26

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

27

Squanto the Power Broker

28

Cash for Kidneys

29

"The Walking Dead" and Pagan Values

30

SHUTDOWN: The Musical

31

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

32

America's Two Angry Dads: Jefferson and Hamilton

33

The Ethics of Performing for Dictators

34

(Sneak Peak) From Branding to the Electric Chair

35

How Texas Blocked Pornhub

36

The Fight Over Gay Characters in Public Schools

37

Rogue Judges and Birthright Citizenship

38

Katie Herzog Gives Me Advice On My Drinking Problem

39

Daryl Davis Attends Klan Rallies (Rebroadcast)

40

Why Europe is Poorer than America

41

Does Liberalism Eat Itself?

42

Charlie Kirk and the Heinous "Other"

43

What Happens When the Ayatollah Falls?

44

Sweden Tried Socialism So You Don't Have To

45

What the Hell Is Finland Smiling About?

46

To Make a Terrifying Spoiler Candidate

47

Greg Lukianoff is Worried About Free Speech

48

But Gene Epstein Hates the Fed

49

What the Hell Does the Federal Reserve Do?

50

How to Become Rich Serving in Congress

51

China Hates These Two People

52

The Two Times We Invaded Canada

53

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

54

Government Grocery Stores and Free Bussing! (WSPN)

55

Churchill, Non-Proliferation, and Iranian Nuclear Ambitions

56

Assassins Part III: An Anarchist Murders McKinley

57

Assassins Part I: Shooting Andrew Jackson

58

How Godzilla Beat the Housing Crisis

59

This Book Will Upset Your Textbook

60

Make Hollywood Great Again?

61

Why You Need a License for Everything

62

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

63

Is it Racist? Is it Sexist?

64

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

65

Trump, Napoleon III, and the Global Economic Order

66

Cory Doctorow on the Evils of Copyright Law

67

Near Death Experiences, with Sebastian Junger

68

Deporting Khalil

69

I Talk to a DEI Consultant about DEI

70

Your Kids and The Department of Education

71

Jeff Maurer: Revenge of the Low-Flow Toilets

72

Jonathan Rauch: Christianity Dropped the Ball on Democracy

73

Sex by the Numbers

74

TRADE WAR! (Probably)

75

Trump's Whack-A-Mole with Federal Employees

76

Death Row Pen Pals

77

How Billionaires Think About Philanthropy

78

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

79

A Theme Park for Kids with Disabilities (And Everyone)

80

The Alzheimer's Choir

81

The Pragmatist's Guide to Politics

82

The Library of Mistakes

83

Black People and White People Advice

84

Heaton and Monkey: Yuletide Crimesolvers (1987)

85

The Original War on Christmas

86

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

87

Life After Prison

88

Chimp Politics

89

What Sparked the Great Awokening

90

What Can the President Actually Do on Trade?

91

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

92

Our Dumb Election: The Musical

93

Flee Not To Canada, My Countrymen (Live Show)

94

Pitch me on Trump: Austin Petersen

95

Pitch me on Kamala Harris: Jeremiah Johnson & Jeff Maurer

96

The Green Party, War, and Ecosocialism

97

Cornel West: The People's Party

98

Chase Oliver: The Libertarian

99

How Tribalism Ruined Politics (NEW HEATON BOOK!)

100

Paternalism as Class Warfare

101

Kevin Williamson on Political Anxiety, The Future, Eating Cats

102

Fetishizing Jobs

103

Maybe I'm Wrong About Woke?

104

Stupid Taxes vs. Smart Taxes

105

Why Nations Fail

106

What the DNC Means by "Freedom"

107

The Good and Bad on Tim Walz

108

How to Stop A Drug Cartel

109

Collapse of the Middle: Scott Klug

110

The College Cartel

111

Matt Taibbi Against the Gatekeepers

112

Hulk Hogan Formally Endorses Donald Trump

113

So Who's this Vance, Then?

114

Bad Takes on a Near Miss

115

The Tory Downfall and What it Means

116

Homeless Thought Experiments

117

Presidential Immunity & Death Squads

118

Bump Stocks, Guns, and Psycho Ex-Boyfriends

119

Chevron is Dead

120

Debate!: The Musical

121

The War On Prices

122

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

123

The Economics of Midlife Crises

124

Presenting LPS: America's Most Colorful Quack

125

Trump Conviction: Kangaroo Court or Al Capone?

126

Batya Ungar-Sargan on the Working Class

127

The Difference Between Psychopaths and Sociopaths

128

How Nations Escape Poverty

129

Cicero and the Founding Fathers

130

College Campuses Are So Very Very Passionate (WSPN)

131

Understanding Immigration Through Circus Folk

132

Was Life Easier in the Fifties?

133

What People Get Wrong About A. I.

134

Why Violent Crime is Up

135

Just How Much Fraud is in Government?

136

Totalitarianism and the Gays

137

Trump, RICO Law, and Lawyer Sex

138

The Economics of Illegal Immigration

139

The New Mao

140

America is Eleven Different Countries

141

Working with Commies and Frenchmen

142

The Politics of Artificial Intelligence

143

The Two Kinds of Independents

144

Knocking Trump Off the Ballot

145

Iowa, Ancient Greece, and Rome

146

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

147

Moon Base Economics

148

The Cancelling of the American Mind

149

David Brooks Wants To Know You Better

150

A Very Snuffy's Rerun

151

A Rugged Snuffy's Christmas

152

Dead People Control Your House: Deed Restrictions

153

Life After Home Internet

154

Revolt of the Jury: Jury Nullification

155

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

156

How Nuclear Deterrence Works

157

Cenk Uygur And Polemicism

158

"Trickle Down Economics"

159

When Identities Fuse in Politics

160

But If There's No Free Will…

161

The Actual Deep State

162

Your Invisible Rights: Randy Barnett

163

Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap

164

Michael Malice Vs. the Soviet Union

165

John Stossel Gives Me Journalism Advice

166

The Plunder of the Commons

167

When Your Home Town Gets Invaded

168

Clean Energy and Yucky Energy: Michael Webber

169

UFO Whistleblowers and Congress

170

Nuclear Renaissance of Tomorrow

171

Upwingers Fighting Downwingers

172

Lizard People and SuperPACs

173

How to Spot Statistical Garbage

174

Government Minus Geography

175

The Economics of Bad Films

176

Clarence Thomas Hates Affirmative Action

177

The Longest Happiness Study in History

178

Cancel Culture Runs Out of Steam (WSPN)

179

Because of the Commerce Clause!

180

Big Ag's Meat Ethics

181

The Three Personalities in Politics

182

What Happens with the National Debt

183

Was Abraham Lincoln Leftwing or Rightwing?

184

Disneyland with The Death Penalty: Singapore

185

Confirmation Bias is Hilarious But Expensive

186

Salesmen Beat Engineers at Politics

187

The Answer is Always Status

188

Capitalism Remains Undefeated!

189

What Do Marxists Actually Think?

190

Sucks to Legally Immigrate

191

Coastal Bias

192

Would You Shut Down the Internet, If You Could?

193

How to Run a Scottish City

194

Design Your City's Ugly Away - Dave Amos

195

Sim City Was Always Wrong

196

What Do Mayors Actually Do? - David Holt

197

The Coming Suburban Apocalypse - Charles Marohn

198

Why Do We Do Tipping? (WSPN)

199

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

200

Addicted to Dopamine

201

The Dictator's Handbook

202

Bonus: Ukraine Counterpoint with Kristaps

203

The Cost of Ukraine

204

Why America Can't Europe

205

Stanford's Forbidden Words of Hilarious Evil

206

ATA: Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling

207

Fix Teenagers By Putting Them to Work

208

Here's Why Partisanship is Skyrocketing

209

Automation Comes for Lawyers and Shrinks

210

Inequality and the New Feudalism

211

Snuffy's Explosion-Proof Christmas

212

Carnage and Blowback in American Foreign Policy

213

We're Defining Inequality Wrong

214

Bill Kristol on Military Intervention

215

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

216

What Skinny Dipping Taught Me About Greed

217

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

218

We Should Abolish Student Councils

219

The Huge, Dumb Permit You've Never Heard Of

220

So I Got Canceled at Oxford

221

The Iranian Regime Still Sucks

222

Who Screwed Up Worst on Covid

223

Russia's Sham Referendums in Ukraine

224

Make Congressmen Share a District

225

America Ought to Get Herself A King

226

Who Actually Survives a Nuclear War

227

The Rules of Getting and Keeping Power

228

The Church of Woke

229

(Rebroadcast) The Berlin Wall

230

How Nazis Thought About Economics

231

Space Bureaucrats vs. Space Billionaires

232

The Supreme Court Messed Up on Prayer in Schools

233

Can I Eat Peyote if it's Religious?

234

Hunting for Theocracy in America

235

Bad News About Humane Warfare

236

America's Dueling Enlightenments

237

When To Scrap Politically Incorrect Words

238

Inflation Is Losing You Money

239

How to Change Your Idiot Uncle's Mind About Stuff

240

Every Time We've Rigged the Supreme Court

241

The Laws and Economics of Treasure Hunting

242

A Spock and Scotty Approach to Gun Control

243

Other Nations Are Insufficiently Horny

244

Real Science Hates Scientism

245

What Happens When You Get Canceled

246

(Rebroadcast) Originalism - How Conservative Judges Think

247

(Rebroadcast) The Living Constitution - How Liberal Judges Think

248

The Guts of Roe v. Wade

249

The Duopoly Hates Third Parties

250

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

251

Why I'm an Angry Carnivore

252

Does Local Control Actually Work?

253

Woke Hysteria Is Actually Class Warfare

254

Why Monkey Groupthink Beats Human Logic

255

Crony Capitalists Are Spoiling Your Food

256

How to Prevent or Provoke Stupid Wars

257

The Brain Fog of War

258

Ukraine is Backfiring on Putin

259

Sanctions are the Virtue Signaling of Economics

260

Time Travel Bureaucracy / New Audio Book

261

Why Revolutions Ignite or Flop

262

PJ O'Rourke Once Got Me Laid

263

Joe Rogan and the Authoritarians

264

Joe Biden's Identity Politics

265

Adventures in Psychedelic Drugs

266

The Best Tiny House Village in America

267

Homelessness, and Our Stupid Solutions

268

WSPN: Omicron, Afghanistan, and Antiwork

269

If Aliens Landed Tomorrow

270

ALL the Immigrants! All of 'em!

271

White House Spy Protocols (and Cooking)

272

A Rather Snuffy's Christmas

273

Bonus: Let's Have an Uncomfortable Gender Conversation

274

The Enemies Of How We Know Stuff

275

Amusing Ourselves to Death

276

Stadium Subsidies Are Unfathomably Stupid

277

How War Shapes Us

278

Matt Ridley and Alina Chan on the Origin of Covid

279

Andrew Yang Goes AWOL

280

What Makes a Joke Offensive

281

John McWhorter on Victimhood and Woke Racism

282

The Reproductive Life of Good and Bad Policies

283

The Thing No Government Can Actually Do

284

George Will on Synthetic Hysteria

285

Politicians Hate Big Tech

286

Society Once Tried to Ban Teddy Bears

287

Bonus: What Napoleon Teaches Us About Foreign Policy

288

How To Zero In On Reality

289

How To Destroy a Country In Four Years

290

Are We Fixing or Ruining Welfare? (WSPN Roundtable)

291

Friday Release Valve is Back! (But Moving)

292

How Zoning Laws Screwed Up Everything

293

Bonus: The Alternative to Winston Churchill

294

Nation Building Failed in Afghanistan

295

Andrew Sullivan is a Gay Catholic Conservative

296

Harvard vs Asians: Affirmative Action and Racial Quotas

297

Cancel Culture Is Mostly Rich White People

298

Would You Maroon Jeff Bezos in Space?

299

Why Comedy Became Toothless

300

Los Angeles is Hideous

301

Michael Malice on Anarchism

302

Authoritarianism On the Rise

303

Don't Give Energy to Political Bullies

304

How Weighted Voting Could Actually Work

305

The Difference Between Liberals and Leftists

306

Why You Can't Drop Student Loans through Bankruptcy

307

Why College is So Freakin' Expensive?

308

Chinese Social Engineering – WSPN Roundtable

309

Less Nukes and More Prosperity

310

FRV: The Great State of Miscellaneous

311

The Nordic Theory of Everything

312

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

313

Journalists Are Too Cozy with the Political Class

314

FRV: Yorkshire Werewolf Tourism

315

America Versus Britain on Liberty

316

FRV: The Official State Tool of Tennessee

317

The Managerial Class vs. Everyone Else

318

FRV: Soviet Television's Lord of the Rings

319

How to Be A Better Vulcan

320

BONUS: How Parties Rig the System

321

FRV 90,000 Greasy Pennies

322

The Smartest Way to Tax People

323

FRV: Mafia YouTube Cooking Tutorials

324

What the Hell Is Social Capital?

325

Friday Release Valve: Japan Has the Coolest Political Party

326

Justin Amash Wants to Unclog Congress

327

FRV: Nebraska's Diehard Meat Rivalry

328

Why Universities Lean Left

329

FRV: China Bans Funeral Strippers

330

Politics As the New Religion with Caleb O. Brown

331

Friday Release Valve: Dutch Snowman Murders

332

How to Spook the Politics Industry

333

Fake News Headlines: The Game Show

334

Please Don't Double the Minimum Wage

335

The Return of Kid Cop - Friday Release Valve

336

The Economics of Happiness

337

Don't Drive on Laughing Gas - Friday Release Valve

338

Gun Deaths by the Numbers

339

Bigfoot Hunting Season - Friday Release Valve

340

Reddit vs Wall Street

341

FRV: Robot Police Dog Tax Expenditures

342

What to do About QAnon

343

FRV: The Official Massachusetts State Dinosaur

344

What Really Toppled the Berlin Wall

345

Toupee Drug Smuggling & Wine Cannons - Friday Release Valve

346

Weak Institutions Make a Sad Country

347

Friday Release Valve: Smuggling Ashes onto the International Space Station

348

What The Hell Just Happened?!

349

Larry Sharpe thinks Covid will Redshift America

350

Education Is Getting More Individualistic

351

A Grander Snuffy's Christmas

352

RERUN: Another Snuffy's Christmas

353

RERUN: A Very Snuffy's Christmas

354

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

355

Dana Perino On Being a White House Press Secretary

356

Capitalist Vaccines, Pardons, and American Hegemony - Roundtable

357

The Labor-Inducing Hamburger (Friday Release Valve)

358

Antifa! Proud Boys! Oath Keepers!

359

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

360

Calculating Existential Threat - Lord Martin Rees

361

Viagra, the Musical - Friday Release Valve

362

Machiavelli vs. John Stuart Mill

363

Literal Underwater Ponzi Schemes (Friday Release Valve)

364

The Election Wasn't Rigged

365

Protect Your Bank from Racoons (Friday Release Valve)

366

Jen Briney Thinks Congress is Tricking You

367

Oakland's Notoriously Violent Turkey - Friday Release Valve

368

What Roger Ailes Can Teach Us About Election Night

369

How Victory Will Jolt Republicans or Democrats

370

Wolves! Felons! Ranked Choice Voting! State Ballot Initiatives

371

British Supermarket Astronaut Chicken - Friday Release Valve

372

The Alliance Party, with Jim Rex and Michelle Griffith

373

Jo Jorgensen and Spike Cohen: The Libertarians

374

Don Blankenship & The Constitution Party

375

Howie Hawkins & The Green Party

376

The Lads Behind The Babylon Bee (Friday Release Valve)

377

Voter Fraud Is More Troubling Than I Thought

378

Decolonize Your Lawn with Jack and Brian (FRV)

379

Why Election Riots Are Guaranteed

380

I Got Robbed in Oakland, California

381

Crocodile Ransom Laws (Friday Release Valve)

382

Libertarian Constitutionalism - Featuring: Tim Sandefur

383

Originalism - Featuring: Christopher R. Green

384

The Living Constitution - Featuring: David Strauss

385

Judge Andrew Napolitano on Natural Law

386

The Role of Judges

387

Glorious Asbestos, Quebec (Friday Release Valve)

388

The Presidential Debate Was Mostly Heckling

389

We Support Getting Elephants High (Friday Release Valve)

390

The Neurochemicals of Politics

391

Armed Monkey Scarecrows (Friday Release Valve)

392

PJ O'Rourke On The Deep Middle (Corrected)

393

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

394

Thomas Frank Is Sick of Anti-Populists

395

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

396

Why UFOs Are in the News

397

Mississippi Alternate Flag Ideas (FRV)

398

Do Political Parties Threaten the Constitution?

399

The Guns for Trumpets Buyback Program (Friday Release Valve)

400

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

401

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

402

Brace Yourself for Kamala Harris

403

The English Are Arming Baboons (Friday Release Valve)

404

Cass Sunstein on Smarter Regulations and Less Conformity

405

Joaquin Phoenix Hostage Scenario (Friday Release Valve)

406

America Had a Coup in 2010

407

I AM RUNNING IN 2020!

408

You're Doing the Culture War Wrong

409

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

410

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

411

Brilliant Solutions for Pesky Statues (Friday Release Valve)

412

Daryl Davis Attends Klan Rallies

413

Italian Death Penalty Bear Courts (Friday Release Valve)

414

How To Not Think Religiously About Climate Change

415

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

416

So What Would Happen if We Legalized Heroin?

417

Pneumatic Parrot Tubes & German Trains (Friday Release Valve)

418

Universal Basic Income vs. Sprawling Bureaucracy

419

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

420

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

421

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

422

Lockdown is Awkward for Polygamists (Friday Release Valve)

423

How Money Actually Works in Congress

424

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

425

How Innovation Works - Featuring: Matt Ridley

426

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

427

Cagematch: Locke vs. Hobbes vs. Rousseau

428

Wild Boars on Cocaine - The Week's Underserved Headlines

429

How Captain Kirk Would Solve the Lockdown (Bonus)

430

Justin Amash: Spoiler Candidate or Sane Alternative?

431

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

432

How Vladimir Putin Thinks

433

Desperately Needed Optimism from Matt Ridley

434

Bernie Sanders is the Ron Paul of Socialism

435

What the Hell is Happening with the Economy?

436

PSA: What To Expect the Next Two Weeks

437

Three Ways to Stop Corrupt Congressmen

438

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

439

Politicians Make Poor Superheroes

440

Live from Snuffy's Fallout Shelter: The Corona Episode

441

We're Against Abolishing the Electoral College, Apparently

442

Late Night Comedy vs. the Outrage Industry

443

You're Doing Prison Wrong

444

Meet the Libertarian Candidates

445

Rush Limbaugh and Virtue Ethics - BONUS

446

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

447

Who's the Democratic Candidate Gonna Be?

448

Don't Screw This Up, New Hampshire

449

How to Talk to Insufferable Ideologues - Featuring: Peter Boghossian

450

PJ O'Rourke Wants to Leave You Alone

451

How to Unstuck Idiot Political Beliefs

452

Tim Heidecker & Gregg Turkington on Political Satire

453

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

454

John McAfee Is On The Lam!

455

Another Snuffy's Christmas

456

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

457

The Future of Space Exploration - Featuring: Astronaut Tom Jones

458

The Trump Impeachment is Basically Caddyshack - Featuring: Michael Baranowski

459

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

460

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

461

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

462

A Comedian Runs for Congress - Featuring: Mike Larsen

463

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

464

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

465

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

466

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

467

Steampunk Gun Control Solutions - Featuring: Charles Cooke

468

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

469

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

470

Iceland: Ally, Neighbor, Lover, Volcano

471

Grover Norquist Goes to Burning Man

472

Dave Barry Is Running for President!

473

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

474

The Last English Libertarian - Featuring: Dominic Frisby

475

Scottish Political Correctness - Featuring: Leo Kearse

476

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

477

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

478

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

479

Should We Add Another Thousand Congressmen?

480

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

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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

489

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

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

491

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

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

493

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

494

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

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

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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

498

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

501

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

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

507

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

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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

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

512

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

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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

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

519

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

520

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

527

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

529

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

530

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

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

532

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

533

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

534

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

535

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

536

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

537

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

538

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

539

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

540

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

541

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

542

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

543

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

544

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

546

Ep 76 | The FDA Mirage | Guest: Stu Burguiere

547

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

549

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

557

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

561

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

564

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

570

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

571

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

572

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

575

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

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

577

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

578

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

579

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

580

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

581

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

582

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

583

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

584

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

585

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

586

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

587

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

588

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

589

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

594

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

595

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

596

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

597

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

598

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

599

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

600

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

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

602

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

603

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

604

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

605

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

607

Ep. 15 | Why George HW Bush Is Underrated

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

609

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

610

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

611

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

612

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

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

614

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

615

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

616

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

617

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

618

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

619

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