The Political Orphanage

The Political Orphanage

Politics minus bile plus jokes. Comedian and avowed independent Andrew Heaton interviews authors and thought leaders about policy and big thinky stuff.

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Ep 56 | The Great American Sex Desert | Guest: Billy Binion

Ep 56 | The Great American Sex Desert | Guest: Billy Binion

Despite what you may think, Americans are having less sex today than in previous eras. Billy Binion of Reason comes on to make sense of America's laggardly sex life. (Then afterwards, Heaton adds to t...

11 Feb 201948min

Ep. 55 | The Super Model Amusement Park | Guest: Jimmy Failla

Ep. 55 | The Super Model Amusement Park | Guest: Jimmy Failla

In a Friday grab bag episode, comedian Jimmy Failla comes on to suss out headlines with Heaton. Including: why Thai parliament candidates are changing their names; the world's most conscientious burgl...

8 Feb 201935min

Ep. 54 | Is "South Park" Postmodern? | Guest: Nick Gillespie

Ep. 54 | Is "South Park" Postmodern? | Guest: Nick Gillespie

What is Postmodernism and why do so many people loathe it? Reason's Nick Gillespie joins Heaton to explain what postmodernism is, where it's useful and when it's asinine, and the many instances where ...

7 Feb 201954min

Ep. 53 | The Imperial Address to the House of Lords And/Or Congress | Guest: Justin Robert Young

Ep. 53 | The Imperial Address to the House of Lords And/Or Congress | Guest: Justin Robert Young

Heaton comes up with ways to improve the State of the Union Address, including a mandated congressional conga line, and presidential crowd surfing. But before that, Justin Robert Young of the "Politic...

6 Feb 201958min

Ep. 52 | Public Schools and Monkey Gods | Guest: Jonathan Braylock

Ep. 52 | Public Schools and Monkey Gods | Guest: Jonathan Braylock

Several states are eyeballing "Bible literacy" classes as part of public school curriculum. Jonathan Braylock, a comedian and a practicing Christian, joins Heaton to discuss how blurring the separatio...

5 Feb 201948min

Ep. 51 | The NFL Team Not Stealing from Taxpayers | Guest: Eric Boehm

Ep. 51 | The NFL Team Not Stealing from Taxpayers | Guest: Eric Boehm

Heaton unleashes a tirade about football, and what he'd do to improve it. (Hint: it involves horses.) Then he invites on Reason's Eric Boehm to discuss stadium subsidies, and the graft and incompetenc...

4 Feb 201952min

Ep. 50 | What Your Hunter-Gatherer Genes Really Want | Guest: Sebastian Junger

Ep. 50 | What Your Hunter-Gatherer Genes Really Want | Guest: Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger is the author of "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging." He joins Heaton to talk about how the world we've made is ill-fitting and alienating to the hunter-gatherer genes we've inherite...

1 Feb 201951min

Ep. 49 | Why Does Everyone Hate Howard Schultz? | Guest: Turner Sparks

Ep. 49 | Why Does Everyone Hate Howard Schultz? | Guest: Turner Sparks

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is thinking about running for president, which has enraged the Democratic party. Comedian Turner Sparks joins to explain why, and Heaton details the single issue Sc...

31 Jan 201959min

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