You're Doing the Culture War Wrong
The Culture War isn't between the Left and the Right--it's just portrayed that way because most people have been taught to understand all conflicts as Red Team vs. Blue Team. There's definitely a Cult...
22 Heinä 20201h 2min
The Outer Limits of Hot Dog-Eating Contests (Friday Release Valve)
(SNFK) Comedian Mahesh Kotagi and playwright Jeremy Kareken join Friday Release Valve to sort out the week's funnier headlines, including a scientific report on the maximum amount of hot dogs one huma...
17 Heinä 202024min
Rutger Bregman: "Lord of the Flies" Got Things Wrong
Rutger Bregman is the author of "Humankind: A Hopeful History," which refutes the central premise of Thomas Hobbes and countless pessimistic legislative agendas: that human beings are, deep down, self...
16 Heinä 20201h 23min
Brilliant Solutions for Pesky Statues (Friday Release Valve)
(NSFK) Comedians Brian Brushwood and Justin Robert Young join the show to go over the week's funniest, least-scrutinized headlines, including: *A Jeffrey Epstein statue *Fight over a wooden yard pha...
10 Heinä 202033min
Daryl Davis Attends Klan Rallies
Daryl Davis is an African American musician responsible for de-radicalizing over 200 Klansmen and Neo-Nazis in his attempts to understand racism. He joins Heaton to talk about his experience, contact ...
8 Heinä 20201h 27min
Italian Death Penalty Bear Courts (Friday Release Valve)
(NSFK) Who steals an 800 pound Canadian radar camera? How can we combine foliage with opera? Comedians Turner Sparks and Mike Kaplan of the Lost in America podcast join Heaton to make sense of the wee...
3 Heinä 202033min
How To Not Think Religiously About Climate Change
How often do climate change discussions get sidetracked by doomsday porn or hoax talk? Sheril Kirshenbaum is the host of "Serving Up Science" at PBS Digital Studios, and a contributor at Scientific Am...
1 Heinä 20201h 14min
Don't Use Artillery Shells as Doorstops (Friday Release Valve)
(NSFK) Leo Kearse, Scottish Comedian of the Year 2018, rejoins the program to suss out the week's better underserved headlines, from British citizens asking New Zealand to invade it to even more thing...
26 Kesä 202029min
