Ep 81 | Is 'The Orville' More 'Star Trek' than 'Star Trek'? | Guest: Dan Maffei
"Alienating the Audience" returns for a deep dive on science fiction, this time with former congressman and current commissioner of the the Federal Maritime Commission Dan Maffei. Heaton and the commi...
18 Mars 201949min
Ep 80 | Whales on Ambien—Friday Release Valve | Guest: Chad Prather
Comedian and BlazeTV host Chad Prather joins Heaton to make sense of the week's better headlines, from a goat mayor in Vermont, to whales, ambien, and conspiracy theories about marketing.
15 Mars 201945min
Ep 79 | Donald Trump's Social Media Sledgehammer | Guest: Dr. Brian Ott
Twitter nabbed Trump an eager pool of followers in 2016, and millions of unearned media attention from his detractors. How is Twitter uniquely suited to his temperament, and how does a 280-character l...
14 Mars 201948min
Ep 78 | You Can't Undo a Hanging | Guest: Jason Buttrill
California's death row inmates got a reprieve this week from Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, who issued a moratorium on executions. It's kicked the issue of the death penalty back into the national spotli...
13 Mars 201935min
Ep 77 | The Least and Most Partisan Counties in America | Guest: Andrea Jones-Rooy
Where do non-partisan people tend to live? What factors are most associated with political prejudice? Comedian and political scientist Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy joins Heaton to a discuss a recent PredictW...
12 Mars 201944min
Ep 76 | The FDA Mirage | Guest: Stu Burguiere
The head of the Food & Drug Administration, Scott Gottlieb, is leaving, so Heaton is officially nominating Stu Burguiere to be its new commissioner. He talks with Heaton about the false sense of secur...
11 Mars 201943min
Ep 75 | Who Has the Biggest Moose? | Guest: Kevin Seefried
Why we should rename Mt. Everest, what hipsters are and aren't, when cemeteries become yoga studios, and the best legislation to come out of Utah—all this on another installment of Friday Release Valv...
9 Mars 201929min
Ep 74 | The Government's Nuclear Doomsday Plans | Guest: Garrett M. Graff
Garrett Graff, author of Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save ItselfÑWhile the Rest of Us Die joins Heaton to discuss the presidential succession, secret military bunkers...
7 Mars 201950min
