Hello everyone, Heaton here. Before we start today's episode, I want to tell you about an app and website that I think this audience in particular will enjoy.

It's called Ground News, and it's a news comparison platform, an aggregator specifically designed to show the bias of the source.

Ground News takes the day's top headlines and then shows you how the different outlets are covering it,

so that you can see how progressives, conservatives and others are reporting

hot button issues. So if, for example, Godzilla were to attack New York, you could see outlets

on the left describe it as lizard attacks Manhattan because of racism and

then scroll over and see that meanwhile frothy right-wing outlets are saying

Godzilla proves there are only two genders. The thing I like best about it though is their

blind spot feature. Ground news looks to see if there are stories, right or

left-leaning media just aren't covering and brings those blind spots to your

attention. So it's a good way not to only check the media's bias,

but to check your own bias,

seeing what stories you may not have otherwise

been getting in your media diet.

And we all know, a well-balanced media diet

is the key to avoiding gout. So check out ground news. You can

download it on the app and play store or simply click on the link in this show

description. And long live Godzilla king of the reptiles. Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm Chief of the misfits, Andrew Heen. And I think I have really misinterpreted politics

over the last 20 years I think. I am a very abstract thinker and I tend to fixate on ideology. I tend to

interpret things ideologically. And so I have a tendency to assume that other people are equally

ideological. But I'm increasingly of the opinion that

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