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The Political Orphanage

Jan 14, 2026

Or... how to host a party if you have Asperger's.

Nick Gray is an entrepreneur and an author living in Austin, Texas. I met him roller skating. He started and sold two successful companies: Flight Display Systems and Museum Hack.  His YouTube and short videos have been seen by over 55 million people. He’s been...


Jan 9, 2026

How did Venezuela become an economic basket case? Not socialism. Or capitalism. Venezuela is a textbook example of a petrostate in the thrall of the Paradox of Plenty, or “the Dutch Disease.”

 

Bonus: Norway’s Big Bucket of Oil Money

https://www.thepoliticalorphanage.com/p/bonus-norways-big-bucket-of-oil-money

 


Dec 31, 2025

College students are increasingly registering as disabled–particularly at high-end universities, which often entails longer test times and extensions on papers. Does the growing rate of accommodation mean American universities are simply better at identifying disabilities; evidence of students and their...


Dec 23, 2025

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 yuletide spy epic.

Happy Holidays! 

Starring: 

Andrew Heaton

Josh Jennings

Andrew Young

Austin Bragg

Justin Robert...


Dec 17, 2025

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.” He joins to discuss.