Best Nick Nobel Podcasts (2024)

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What Kamala Harris’ Coronation Says About the Democratic Party 1:08:32

1h ago1:08:32

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman altogether flinch at the newfound media fawning over Vice President Kamala Harris' ascendancy to the top of the Democratic party's presidential ticket.01:35—Cringe media honeymoon phase with Kamala Harris21:23—GOP buyer's remorse with …

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Alex Thompson: Why Did Biden Drop Out? 1:17:36

6d ago1:17:36

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The past month has been one of the most tumultuous in modern American political history: a devastating face-plant in a televised presidential debate, an attempted assassination of an ex-president favored in the polls to win reelection, a COVID-19 infection of the sitting president and his subsequent exit from the race, and an endorsement and loads …

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Ted and Courtney Balaker: College Students Are Rejecting Wokeness 38:23

2h ago38:23

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Ted and Courtney Balaker are the team behind the new documentary The Coddling of the American Mind. Based on the 2018 best-selling book by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, the film follows a series of students as they navigate life on today's highly charged college campuses. I spoke with Courtney and Ted, who started his video career as one of th…

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Biden's Out. Harris Is In. Everyone Else Is Screwed. 1:06:58

8d ago1:06:58

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman assess the state of the 2024 presidential race one day after President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection.01:41—President Joe Biden drops out of the presidential race and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris.32:52—Weekly…

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Did COVID Come From a Lab? 1:33:12

41m ago1:33:12

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Best-selling science and technology author Matt Ridley and University of Utah virologist Stephen Goldstein debate the resolution: "It is likely that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in the Wuhan laboratory in China."Defending the resolution is Ridley, the author of 10 books, including Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19. He sat in the U.K.'…

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Mary Katharine Ham: What's Trump's Agenda? 1:06:09

1h ago1:06:09

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Where does former President Donald Trump want to take this country?As the Republican Party coronates Trump as its presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, there will be a lot of talk about Trump's vice presidential pick, his dominance in the polls, and the decline of President Joe Biden. But what about policy? What i…

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Corey DeAngelis: The School Choice Wave Sweeping America 1:13:47

1h ago1:13:47

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This week's guest on The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie is school choice activist Corey DeAngelis, whose provocative new book is The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools. A senior fellow at the American Federation for Children and a former education policy analyst at the Reason Foundation (the nonprofit …

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Is Violent Rhetoric To Blame for the Trump Assassination Attempt? 1:06:05

14d ago1:06:05

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman grapple with the current political climate in the U.S. after the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump over the weekend.01:44—Trump's Assassination attempt27:06—President Joe Biden's press conference43:07—Republican …

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239 - I Am Rage 1:26:48

1d ago1:26:48

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Your Stupid Minds comes at you with a movie recommended by Chris’s dad, the low budget UK adrenochrome-fueled revenge thriller I Am Rage (2023). Erin (Hannaj Bang Bendz) is a young woman with PTSD who decides to go to the family estate of her new boyfriend Adam (Derek Nelson). His entire family is there, including Adam’s brother Michael (Luke Aquil…

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Dave Weigel: What If Biden Quits? 1:21:14

2d ago1:21:14

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What if President Joe Biden drops out? Just asking questions. Biden is facing increasing pressure from his own side to drop out of the 2024 race, which nearly every poll taken since his disaster debate performance last week shows him losing. The latest RealClearPolitics average has him down by about 3.5 percentage points nationally. Several Democra…

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Eric Brakey: How Libertarians Can Attain Political Power 39:28

3d ago39:28

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Today's guest is Eric Brakey, the new executive director of The Free State Project, a nonprofit that has been working since 2001 to get small-government diehards to move to New Hampshire and make the Granite State a stronghold for libertarian ideas. Prior to becoming head of the Free State Project, Brakey was a Republican state senator in Maine, wh…

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Why the Media Covered for Biden 1:04:21

5d ago1:04:21

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Elizabeth Nolan Brown size up the fallout from the mainstream media's lag in coverage of Joe Biden's cognitive decline, despite evidence existing well before his seismic debate performance on June 27.01:50—Media fallout after Biden'…

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What's the Best Argument for Libertarianism? 1:39:31

10d ago1:39:31

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Free State Project activist Dennis Pratt and Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein debate the resolution, "A better way to persuade more people of libertarianism is to convince them of the ethics stemming from self-ownership and the non-aggression principle, without relying primarily on consequentialist/utilitarian arguments."Dennis Pratt, a libertarian…

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Debate: Austrian vs. Chicago Economics 1:34:10

8d ago1:34:10

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Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein and Chicago school economist David Friedman debate the resolution, "The Austrian economics of Mises and Rothbard contains economic intuitions that are important, correct, and missing from Chicago School economics."Taking the affirmative was Gene Epstein, the director of the Soho Forum and former economics and books …

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Ruth Whippman: How Is Masculinity Changing? 1:17:33

25d ago1:17:33

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Are the boys okay?For much of history, parents have preferred boys, perceiving them as the providers, the family legacy, the heirs to the throne. A dark consequence of China's 36-year-long one-child policy was a 120 boy to 100 girl birth ratio. But in 21st-century America, the script seems to have been flipped. The New York Times has run headlines …

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Andy Mills: Quitting The New York Times and Making The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling 1:15:41

28d ago1:15:41

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This week's guest is Andy Mills, the co-creator of Reflector, a new documentary podcast. Reflector's early episodes delve into controversial treatments for alcoholism and the free speech implications of the trial of rapper Young Thug, whose lyrics are being used by prosecutors to build a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) cas…

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Biden, Cognitive Decline, and the End of American Empire 1:05:34

10d ago1:05:34

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman stare ever deeper into the abyss while recapping the hapless display at last week's first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.01:50—Reactions to the Biden vs. Trump debate21:43—Were any concrete policies discussed du…

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238 - Gen¹³ 1:02:41

1M ago1:02:41

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Your Stupid Minds is back with more animation for you! Not anime, but anime-inspired, it’s the unreleased in America film adaptation of the comic Gen¹³ from Jim Lee, Brandon Choi and J. Scott Campbell. It’s basically if a OVA was slightly less leery and animated like an episode of Batman Beyond. Caitlin Fairchild (Alicia Witt) is a freakin’ NERD wh…

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Mike Rowe: Make America Stand for Something Again 50:57

1M ago50:57

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Today's guest is Mike Rowe, the podcaster, former host of Dirty Jobs, and star of Something To Stand For, an unabashedly patriotic film in which he tells unknown stories about legendary figures in American history. Something To Stand For will be in theaters from June 27th through the 4th of July, and will be available online afterward. Reason's Nic…

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Eating Doritos While Drowning in Debt 1:12:26

1M ago1:12:26

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman lament the latest dire forecast from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week forecasting a $2 trillion budget deficit in 2024.02:31—$2 trillion federal budget deficit21:17— Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump on immigration37:02—Weekly …

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Whole Foods’ John Mackey: We Must Change How We Think About Capitalism 1:12:50

1M ago1:12:50

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Today's guest is John Mackey, the co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods, who just released his memoir, The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism. As befits the entrepreneur who revolutionized grocery shopping from a grim, pragmatic necessity into an exciting, multi-sensory adventure, Mackey's story is far from conventional and we…

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Abortion, Guns, and Hunter Biden. 1:00:20

1M ago1:00:20

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman pore over recent Supreme Court decisions regarding the abortion pill mifepristone and the Trump administration's ban on gun bump stocks.02:01—Supreme Court rulings on abortion pill and bump stocks16:45—Secret recording of Supreme Court…

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Glenn Greenwald: Defund Israel and Free Assange 1:28:46

2M ago1:28:46

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Today's guest is maverick journalist Glenn Greenwald, whose work publicizing Edward Snowden's revelations of ubiquitous and illegal surveillance of Americans helped The Guardian win a Pulitzer Prize. Greenwald now hosts the nightly news show System Update on Rumble and maintains an active presence on X (formerly Twitter). Reason's Nick Gillespie an…

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237 - Garzey's Wing 1:03:41

2M ago1:03:41

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What is that light? Is that Garzey’s Wing? Is he the Holy Warrior? Is that Garzey’s Wing? What was that? Garzey’s Wing? Yes, Your Stupid Minds is dipping its toe into anime for the first time ever with one of the worst OVAs of all time combined with one of the worst English dub tracks of all time. It’s Yoshiyuki Tomino’s 1996 three episode OVA Garz…

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Glenn Loury: Tales of Sex, Drugs, and Capitalism 1:07:15

2M ago1:07:15

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My guest today is economist and podcaster Glenn Loury, whose new memoir is titled Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative. Born in 1948 and raised working-class in Chicago's predominantly African American South Side, Loury tells a story of self-invention, ambition, hard work, addiction, and redemption that channels Benjamin Franklin's …

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Partisan Border Wars 1:03:21

2M ago1:03:21

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman scrutinize President Joe Biden's executive order updating asylum restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border in response to illegal border crossings.01:32—Biden's new asylum restrictions21:38—The prosecution of political opponents: former P…

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Jay Bhattacharya: 'I Sued the Biden Administration for COVID Censorship' 49:10

2M ago49:10

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Today's guest is Jay Bhattacharya, a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration and one of the plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court case charging that the Biden administration and other parts of the federal government illegally colluded "with social media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content." A decis…

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Should Donald Trump Have Been Convicted? 1:06:13

2M ago1:06:13

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman debrief in the wake of former President Donald Trump's conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records last week in New York City.00:33—Donald Trump's conviction27:37—Weekly Listener Question42:11—Recent undercovered stories50:4…

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236 - Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger 1:14:54

2M ago1:14:54

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Heyyyy, this is Your Stupid Minds saying howdy to all the girls out there in podcast-land. We have a special edition of Your Stupid Minds: After Dark. If you download this episode before your morning commute please wait until night! We present the direct-to-video sequel to the Roger Corman ripoff of Fatal Attraction. It’s Body Chemistry II: The Voi…

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Nellie Bowles: How the Lockdowns Drove Us Crazy 1:06:37

2M ago1:06:37

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Today's guest is Nellie Bowles, a co-founder of the immensely popular Substack publication The Free Press, where she writes TGIF, a weekly news roundup that has earned a fanatical following. She's also the author of the new book Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History, a deeply reported account of how America respond…

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A Bonus Reason Roundtable. Live From Boston! 1:03:51

2M ago1:03:51

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Last weekend, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman recorded an episode of The Reason Roundtable in front of a live audience at Reason Weekend in Boston, Massachusetts, with topics centered on both past and future U.S. vice presidents.1:23—President Joe Biden proposes new tariffs on China11:42—Potential Donald…

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Ted Nordhaus: How Bad Is Climate Change? 1:23:40

2M ago1:23:40

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How bad is climate change?People are freaked out by climate change, especially young people. Scientists for Nature conducted a survey of 10,000 16- to 25-year-olds in 2021 and found that 59 percent of them were extremely worried or very worried about climate change, and large majorities reported that climate change made them feel sad, anxious, and/…

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Glenn Greenwald and Alan Dershowitz Debate Bombing Iran 1:52:07

2M ago1:52:07

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Professor and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald debate the resolution, "The U.S. should strike Iran's nuclear facilities."Taking the affirmative is Dershowitz, an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught a…

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Phil Magness: Who Really Pays the Most Taxes? 1:04:53

2M ago1:04:53

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How much do billionaires really pay in taxes?"Today, the superrich control a greater share of America's wealth than during the Gilded Age of Carnegies and Rockefellers," said Gabriel Zucman in a recent New York Times opinion piece entitled, "It's Time to Tax the Billionaires."Zucman is an economist at the Paris School of Economics and the Universit…

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Death of an Authoritarian 1:10:30

2M ago1:10:30

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman consider U.S. foreign policy toward Iran in the wake of a helicopter crash that left Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian dead.00:51—Iranian president dies in helicopter crash16:46—Drug Enforcem…

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235 - The Skateboard Kid 1:23:27

2M ago1:23:27

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In honor of the late great Roger Corman, Your Stupid Minds covers this incoherent Corman-produced family film The Skateboard Kid, starring Timothy Busfield, Bess Armstrong, and Dom DeLuise. And yes, the skateboard can talk. Widower Frank (Busfield) and his skateboard kid Zack (Trevor Lissauer) move to Southern California where they are both turbo-b…

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Campaigns Can’t Get Worse, Can They? 1:06:09

3M ago1:06:09

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman conjure up a few changes they'd wish to see in the vain hope of improving U.S. presidential campaigns and consider the Biden administration's threat to cut off arms shipments to Israel.00:35—Desirable presidential campaign reforms23:00…

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Nico Perrino: When Does Protesting Become a Crime? 1:34:01

3M ago1:34:01

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What should colleges do about pro-Palestinian encampments?College students across America are camping out to demand their universities divest all investments with Israeli-linked companies that they claim profit from the occupation and oppression of Palestine. It's gone on for weeks, and even administrators at schools known as bastions of progressiv…

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Noam Dworman: Free Speech for All, From Finkelstein to Chapelle 1:10:31

3M ago1:10:31

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Today's guest is Noam Dworman, the owner of New York's Comedy Cellar, the most influential—and controversial—comedy club on the planet. Dave Chapelle, Louis C.K., Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock, Andrew Schulz, and many others not only broke out from this club, but they also regularly return to try out new material. Trained as a lawyer, Dw…

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Americans Care About Inflation, but Politicians Don't 1:04:46

3M ago1:04:46

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman assess the mismatch between Americans' lingering concerns over inflation compared to politicians' failure to address it.01:39—Americans still care about inflation.16:49—Donald Trump to speak at Libertarian Party National Convention41:0…

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Stephen Wolfram Is Ready To Be Surprised by AI 1:02:20

3M ago1:02:20

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Stephen Wolfram is, strictly speaking, a high school and college dropout: He left both Eton and Oxford early, citing boredom. At 20, he received his doctorate in theoretical physics from Caltech and then joined the faculty in 1979. But he eventually moved away from academia, focusing instead on building a series of popular, powerful, and often epon…

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234 - Holy Matrimony 1:26:46

3M ago1:26:46

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Your Stupid Minds returns to its loose theme of “Sicko Movies from the 1990s” (see: Blank Check, Milk Money, First Kid) with the hilarious premise of “what if an adult woman married a child as a joke?” It’s 1994’s Holy Matrimony, starring Patricia Arquette, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Tate Donovan. After a life-changing carnival-money heist executed …

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Jesse Singal: Should Kids Medically Transition? 1:28:13

3M ago1:28:13

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Jesse Signal questions the science of "gender affirming care."Text and links to sources available here: https://reason.com/podcast/2024/05/02/jesse-singal-should-kids-medically-transitionChapters:00:00 Introduction to the Show and Topic: Kids and Gender Transition02:14 Media Coverage and Jesse Singal's Insights04:50 The Impact of Social Media and A…

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Rob Long: God is Good, Drugs Are Better 1:00:51

3M ago1:00:51

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Today's guest is comedy writer Rob Long, who served as a writer for and producer of the great sitcom Cheers for years, writes the weekly Martini Shot commentary, and cohosts the GLoP Culture podcast with Jonah Goldberg and John Podhoretz. He is a columnist for Commentary and a cofounder of Ricochet, the online community and podcast platform. At a l…

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