Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for Puckie Miss Fits and Problem Solvers.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton, a man many people have described as frighteningly sane.

And today, we are going to get into one of my all-time favorite topics,

nay my all-time favorite topic. Why are most humans and many people so utterly enthralled by group think and tribalism.

If you've ever had an otherwise rational friend

hurl their logic and opinions onto a conflagration of partisanship, or if you've ever wondered,

wait a minute, am I the partisan and my friend is the independent thinker?

Then this episode is for you.

I'm poised to interview the great David McRaney

who professionally studies confirmation bias, tricks of the mind,

and all of the monkey delusions you and I are subject to, but not as subject as all those other idiots, right?

Oh, wait, one more thing, before I forget, due to popular demand and a handful of death threats,

the political orphanage is now available on YouTube.

So if you're one of the many people who likes to furtively listen to things via YouTube at work

so your boss doesn't realize what you're up to, the political orphanage is now available

to you.

Or if you want to see what me and David McRaney looked like while we're talking to each other,

hint, very handsome. And remember about a month ago when I did a special on

psychedelics and I asked my friend Aila who is a porn star to come on and

talk about doing LSD and she was actively changing and

putting on makeup during our Zoom call which I was able to conduct with

professional a plumb all the same? Well I sure as hell got that recorded and uploaded to YouTube.

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