Show overview
The Political Orphanage has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 635 episodes. That works out to roughly 630 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 44 min and 1h 12m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 35 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2019, with 137 episodes published. Published by Andrew Heaton.
From the publisher
Politics minus bile plus jokes. Comedian and avowed independent Andrew Heaton interviews authors and thought leaders about policy and big thinky stuff.
Latest Episodes
View all 635 episodesZuby Grew up in a Company Town
(Preview) Vampire Bats Thwart Henry Ford
The Dark Side of Corporate Utopia: Pullman vs. Hershey
(Preview) The Socialist Who Bought a Town
The Emperor of Epcot: Walt Disney and Company Towns
Privacy Through a Cop's Eyes
The Old Political Order Is Dying: Stephen Davies on the Great Realignment
The Great Baby Shortage
Falsely Convicted of Murder (Bonus Sample)
Fighting Crime Like an Economist
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Hahaha! Warrant? What Warrant?!
Your Friends Are Wrong About the Supreme Court: Sarah Isgur
War Without Coffins
The Travails of Afroman and Lindy West (WSPN)
Ep 627How To Deal with Political Lizard People
Sociopaths and narcissists are both drawn to politics. How do we spot folks with faulty moral compasses before they get elected, and what do we do when they slip by? Bill Eddy is a therapist, lawyer, and mediator. He is the Director of Innovation at the High Conflict Institute. He is the author of over twenty books on high-conflict behavior and how to manage it, but we will be discussing the most pertinent of these works, "Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths and How We Can Stop."
Ep 626Interview with the Mega Warden
Randall Liberty is the Commissioner for Maine's Department of Corrections, overseeing the state's entire prison system, after previously serving as a warden, and a sheriff. He's largely responsible for implementing the "Maine Model," and shifting the state's prison resources away from punitive emphases to rehabilitation. Part V of Prison Week SUPPORT THE SHOW! www.patreon.com/andrewheaton www.thepoliticalorphanage.com
Ep 625What's Prison Hooch Taste Like?
What's prison wine taste like? How's trade work? Where do people get the ink for prison tattoos? If someone sees you cry in the slammer, do you get beaten up? If they beat you up, can you whittle your toothbrush down and shank 'em later? And, crucially, how is prison debate different than high school debate, if at all?
Ep 624Parenting Behind Bars
How hard is it to raise kids when you're inside a penitentiary? How do you maintain relationships in general? In this episode, Part III of Prison Week, we head to the Maine Correctional Center's Women Prison to interview a resident. SUPPORT THE SHOW! www.patreon.com/andrewheaton www.thepoliticalorphanage.com
Ep 623Maine is Smarter Than Your State about Prison
In Part II of Prison Week, we meet prison teachers, visit the computer lab, and check out Anime in the prison library. The "Maine Model" is focused on rehabilitation and trying to get residents prepped for life on the outside. It's a method contrasted to older penitentiary models in the United States, which focus primarily on punishment and deterrence.