Heaton and Monkey: Yuletide Spysolvers
Our Annual Christmas Comedy Special. In which, our intrepid heroes must save Christmas from a debauched algorithm, navigate treacherous honeypots, and escape a federal penitentiary in this modern yule...
23 Dec 202559min
Jason Pargin on Internet Addiction and Algorithmic Horror
Former Cracked.com editor Jason Pargin explores the subject of how social media makes us insane and warps the universe we're in, in his new book "I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom." H...
17 Dec 20251h 22min
The Secret Map of Supreme Court Justices
Sarah Isgur is a senior editor at SCOTUS Blog, host of the Advisory Opinions podcast, and a contributor at ABC News. She is the author of the forthcoming book "Last Branch Standing," which available f...
11 Dec 202559min
Freddie deBoer: What It's Like to Have a Mental Breakdown
Freddie deBoer is a writer, academic, and cultural critic. He is a widely-read author on Substack, an old-school Marxist, who has previously been on the program to explain what Marxists actually think...
3 Dec 20251h 9min
Squanto the Power Broker
The real story of Thanksgiving is stranger, darker, and far more interesting than what you learned in kindergarten (or college). It's a tale of slavery, plagues, ecological engineering, diplomacy, bet...
26 Nov 20251h 32min
Cash for Kidneys
Thousands of people need kidneys, right now. They are either on the precipice of death, or suffering through dialysis and low quality of life. Jeremiah Johnson of the New Liberal Podcast joins to disc...
20 Nov 20251h 13min
"The Walking Dead" and Pagan Values
Tim Sandefur joins to discuss individualism in American culture. In this fun (but weird) conversation, we go through zombie shows, Westerns, and Star Trek, while invoking Hobbes, Ayn Rand, Epicurus, t...
12 Nov 202555min
SHUTDOWN: The Musical
Theater critic Clive Kripson of BBC Bolton joins to review "Shutdown: The Musical" in what is now the longest-running revival of the landmark Broadway favorite.
5 Nov 202549min
