Bigfoot Hunting Season - Friday Release Valve
Nick Sperdute and Andrew Young return to discuss the week's best, underserved headlines. Including stories about Scottish stamp lickers, why a man lived in an airport for three months, and the button ...
5 Helmi 202129min
Reddit vs Wall Street
Last week Robinhood suspended trades on volatile Gamestop stocks, halting Reddit gadflies from utterly destroying a hedge fund which had shorted it. Why'd they cap things off when so many regular folk...
3 Helmi 20211h 12min
FRV: Robot Police Dog Tax Expenditures
Negin Farsad of "Fake the Nation" and Cheddar's Congressional Correspondent JD Durkin join the show to kick around the week's best, funniest headlines. Including: rave in the bathroom, stripper mishap...
29 Tammi 202141min
What to do About QAnon
Should the state interpolate itself into online QAnon conspiracy boards? Who gets the first vaccines? Are pardons a net benefit or vestigial monarchism? The World's Smartest Podcast Network reconvene...
27 Tammi 20211h 3min
FRV: The Official Massachusetts State Dinosaur
Comedian Gianmarco Soresi joins the show to dive into the week's best, underserved headlines, including: Mexican love tunnels, aggressive squirrels, bed bugs, aggressive Facebook invites, and Viagra m...
22 Tammi 202137min
What Really Toppled the Berlin Wall
In 1989 East Germans punctured through the Berlin Wall, reuniting the country after decades of bitter separation. In this episode we follow the creation and and destruction of the Berlin Wall--and loo...
21 Tammi 20211h 10min
Toupee Drug Smuggling & Wine Cannons - Friday Release Valve
Alice Vaughn and Yvette d'Entremont return to explore the week's best, underserved headlines, including stuff about cannons, 90s video games, and pregnancy tests. You can watch this on YouTube! Head t...
15 Tammi 202137min
Weak Institutions Make a Sad Country
Yuval Levin thinks our sclerotic government and alienated culture trace back to anemic, declining institutions. As Congress, the press, and think tanks all lose esprit de corps, and turn into platform...
13 Tammi 202145min
