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The Political Orphanage

Politics minus bile plus jokes. Comedian and avowed independent Andrew Heaton interviews authors and thought leaders about policy and big thinky stuff.

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

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

The US Women's Soccer Team won the World Cup this week, but gets payed less than their male equivalents. Is this blatant... Read more

17 Jul 2019

1hr 45mins

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

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

Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy returns to discuss bias, cognitive traps, and the difference between tokenism and intellectual div... Read more

11 Dec 2018

59mins

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Scottish Political Correctness - Featuring: Leo Kearse

Scottish Political Correctness - Featuring: Leo Kearse

Leo Kearse is Scotland's Comedian of the Year from 2018, and might well be the only conservative Scottish joke monger. H... Read more

8 Aug 2019

1hr 9mins

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

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

Republicans and Democrats don't just have different goals and platforms, they literally think and organize differently. ... Read more

16 Oct 2019

1hr 26mins

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Steampunk Gun Control Solutions - Featuring: Charles Cooke

Steampunk Gun Control Solutions - Featuring: Charles Cooke

Charles Cooke is the editor of National Review Online (Interview begins at 19:55), and an author, pundit, and frequent t... Read more

2 Oct 2019

1hr 41mins

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

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

On this installment of the Friday Release Valve, Heaton’s producer Jennings comes on to sort through the week’s better h... Read more

7 Jun 2019

27mins

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The Trump Impeachment is Basically Caddyshack - Featuring: Michael Baranowski

The Trump Impeachment is Basically Caddyshack - Featuring: Michael Baranowski

On this episode we take a big picture view of impeachment--what's it's role in government and what's the nature of the p... Read more

4 Dec 2019

1hr 15mins

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

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

In the era of radical identitarian politics, where unthinking vitriol and sometimes even violence abounds, more and more... Read more

16 May 2019

54mins

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

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

Justin Robert Young explains why Kim Kardashian will run for president, why she’ll be an unstoppable media bulldozer whe... Read more

5 Jun 2019

41mins

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

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

Ken White is a First Amendment litigator, lawblogger at Popehat.com, and the hilarious Twitter personality Popehat. He j... Read more

25 Nov 2019

1hr 14mins

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

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

Notable billionaire and possible Keebler elf Michael Bloomberg has thrown his hat into the presidential ring as a Democr... Read more

14 Nov 2019

51mins

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

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

Comedian David Carl and playwright Jeremy Kareken join Heaton to discuss how vaping could save or kill America, the next... Read more

18 Sep 2019

1hr 15mins

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

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

Justin Young of "Politics Politics Politics" joins to discuss the government shutdown, how alarmed and/or irritated citi... Read more

7 Jan 2019

47mins

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

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

What if history isn’t a string of great man biopics or a struggle between conservatives and progressives? What if it’s a... Read more

9 May 2019

38mins

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

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

Bridget Phetasy is a former Playboy Advisor, and presently a writer and standup comedian. Also, she was in a sex cult. H... Read more

14 Feb 2019

1hr 2mins

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You're Doing Prison Wrong

You're Doing Prison Wrong

The Criminal Justice episode! What to do about private prisons, the Death Penalty, the Drug War, mental health, prostitu... Read more

4 Mar 2020

1hr 33mins

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

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

Is it better to use the government to expand coverage, or rely on markets to lower prices? Rick Ungar joins Heaton for a... Read more

18 Dec 2019

1hr 3mins

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Late Night Comedy vs. the Outrage Industry

Late Night Comedy vs. the Outrage Industry

Why do socially liberal comedians clean up in late night television, while social conservatives dominate talk radio? Dan... Read more

11 Mar 2020

1hr 13mins

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

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

The first Movie Club episode! Brian Brushwood and Heaton review "Vice," the Dick Cheney biopic. Brian makes the case tha... Read more

8 Jan 2019

55mins

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

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

What if dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki isn’t what corked off World War II? How tactically useful are nukes, an... Read more

30 May 2019

1hr 5mins

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