The Political Orphanage

We’ve been to the moon a couple of times to collect rocks and go golfing, but what benefits would we get from building a permanent colony? Robert Zubrin is the author of “The Case for Space,” founder of the Mars Society, and president of Pioneer Astronautics. He joins Heaton to talk about how to build a moon base and how to get the private sector to do it cheap.

10 Huhti 201944min

Comedian and comic book guru Megan Sass joins Heaton on “Alienating the Audience” to talk about superhero politics. How do Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman play out ideologically?

9 Huhti 201946min

Every election, we’re told we can either vote for the lesser of two besuited sociopaths or throw our vote away on a doomed third-party candidate. (At which point, you may well spoil the election for everyone.) Dan Fishman is the incoming executive director of the Libertarian Party, and he has a solution for shifting our elections away from exercises in fear and hate toward logic and values.

8 Huhti 201939min

Comedian Jimmy Failla returns to help sort out the week’s more obscure headlines: from marathon endurance singing, to football skulls, to why Uri Geller is a threat to us all!

5 Huhti 201937min

Heaton goes on a melange-fueled sci-fi plunge in this special installment of “Alienating the Audience” about the politics and economics of Frank Herbert’s “Dune.” He’s joined by fellow nerd and possible mentat Benjamin Brockschmidt to discuss feudalism in space, the future of humanity, technology, and the nature of power.

4 Huhti 20191h 9min

Can Uncle Joe climb out of the vat of #MeToo he seems to have fallen into? What are his policy priorities, and can he win the Democratic nomination despite being an old white guy? Comedian Negin Farsad of “Fake the Nation" joins Heaton to get the rundown on Uncle Joe.

3 Huhti 201939min

Heaton invites on BlazeTV's Phil Robertson, of “Duck Dynasty” fame, to talk about how secular and spiritual people can get along and, to a lesser extent, to run Heaton’s reality TV show ideas by him.

2 Huhti 201936min

Poland is part of NATO and an EU member state, but it’s veering towards nationalism and populism and some other unsavory developments. Brian Sack, comedian and Polish expert, joins to discuss.

1 Huhti 201946min