Ep 120 | The Spy Whale Who Loved Me | Guest: Lou Perez
Comedian Lou Perez joins Heaton for a Friday Release Valve episode to discuss the silliest headlines of the week: Some sheep go to school, chicken nugget ice cream, a guy crossing the ocean in a barrel, and a lot more fun on this week's episode!
10 Maj 201936min
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 battle of disciplinarians against drunks and harlots? Thaddeus Russell comes on to talk about his book, "A Renegade History of the United States."
9 Maj 201938min
Ep 118 | A Great Way to Screw Up the Economy | Guest: Jeremy Kareken
The market tumbled yesterday after Donald Trump threatened to double down on tariffs. Heaton explains Comparative Advantage with a brilliant scotch analogy, and is then joined by playwright and comedian Jeremy Kareken to rant about protectionism.
8 Maj 201943min
Ep 117 | Criminology Lessons from a Prison Rodeo | Guest: German Lopez
It's expensive maintaining the largest prison population on the entire planet, but we've managed to do it for several decades. German Lopez, senior correspondent at Vox, joins Heaton to talk about criminal justice reform and how the 2020 candidates stack up on drug policy and sentencing.
7 Maj 201941min
Ep 116 | How We Beat Those Neanderthals | Guest: Natalia Reagan
Comedian and primatologist Natalia Reagan joins Heaton to talk about hominids, the human family tree, and the time when Homo sapiens weren't the only smart bipedal hominids running around.
6 Maj 201950min
Ep 115 | The World's Sexiest Accent | Guest: Brian Sack
Comedy writer Brian Sack joins Heaton for a Friday Release Valve episode to sort the world's better headlines: from the worst use of parking spaces ever, to a great education game about cow tuberculosis, to an effortless but irritating way to get abs.
3 Maj 201931min
Ep 114 | Why Do We Love Conspiracy Theories? | Guest: Jesse Walker
What's in the DNA of a conspiracy theory, and when does it go from benign to dangerous? Jesse Walker is author of "The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory," which identifies the different types of conspiracy theories and charts them from the Salem witch trials through Barack Obama's birth certificate.
2 Maj 201945min
Ep 113 | That's Not Socialism, Dammit! | Guest: Justin Haskins
People don't really like pointing to Venezuela, Cambodia, Cuba, or the Soviet Union when they talk about socialism. (What with the deaths.) They like to mention cute sweater-vest countries, like Denmark, that aren't actually socialist. Justin Haskins, executive editor at the Heartland Institute, joins Heaton to talk about what socialism is and isn't, and also when it occasionally gets out of hand and murders hundreds of millions of people.
1 Maj 201946min
