Clean Energy and Yucky Energy: Michael Webber
How do energy experts approach energy? Are there good sources and bad sources? What should we try to abolish and what should we lob subsidies at? Dr. Michael Webber is a professor of Energy Resource...
30 Aug 202341min
UFO Whistleblowers and Congress
Recently former intelligence officer David Grusch appeared before Congress, and made the bold claims that the U.S. government owns multiple recovered extraterrestrial vehicles, as well as "biotics"--w...
23 Aug 20231h 20min
Nuclear Renaissance of Tomorrow
Is nuclear power cheap and safe, or dangerous and expensive? Dr. Robert Zubrin is the author of "The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future." Z...
16 Aug 20231h 15min
Upwingers Fighting Downwingers
Dr. Steve Fuller of Warwick University says the meaningful split in society is not Leftwing vs. Rightwing, but rather Upwing vs. Downwing. Both have radically different attitudes to both risk and huma...
9 Aug 202359min
Lizard People and SuperPACs
Lawrence Lessig of Harvard University is the nation's foremost thinker and advocate for campaign finance reform around SuperPAC's. He joins the show to argue for governing political campaigns and Supe...
2 Aug 20231h 15min
How to Spot Statistical Garbage
Statistics can be mangled to say whatever you'd like, and sometimes they're garbage to begin with. Aaron Brown teaches statistics at New York University and at the University of California. He joins t...
26 Jul 20231h 19min
Government Minus Geography
America is less geographically-focused than ever, but her government is still foundationally built around land areas. What would politics look like if geography played less of a role? Max Borders join...
19 Jul 20231h 8min
The Economics of Bad Films
Thom Taylor is Los Angeles financial advisor who spent a decade writing for movie magazines. He knows the creative and business side of Hollywood, and how the current writer strike is apt to alter the...
12 Jul 20231h 13min
