Hello Heaton here and I have a treat for you. I am going to expose you to a bonus episode.

The Political Orvenage has two episodes every week.

It has the regular episode where I talk to a guest or get into some kind of

hygiene, probably do some sponsors involving horses, and then I also do a bonus

episode just for people on Patreon, where I don't talk to a guest, I just talk about something that I find

fascinating, some chapter of history or some ethics or philosophy or ideology.

It's all over the board.

It's gone from Napoleon to Taiwanese gods to minor

characters and to kill a mockingbird. It's all over the board. Basically, if I'm a

professor, the regular feed is my lecture that's open to everybody, and the

bonus episode is hanging out with me one-on-one during office hours, and you're about to get

an installment of that.

A couple of weeks ago Rush Limbaugh was diagnosed with cancer and he was subsequently

given a medal at the State of the Union address and I did an episode on that as a way of explaining Aristotelian virtue ethics.

Now I know what you're thinking.

Everybody was talking about Aristotelian virtue ethics when they found out about Rush Limbaugh.

I mean who wasn't, right? Well, I put my own spin on it.

After I posted that, several Patreon supporters contacted me and asked me if I would release it on the regular feed.

They really enjoyed it, they thought it was interesting, they actually kind of enjoyed

it more than some of the regular content, and they wanted to be able to share it with their friends.

And enough people reached out to me that I am going

to acquiesce and put it on the regular feed for you. So you're about to get a

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