Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton, and we're coming off of a very wonky, data-heavy coffee drinking week.

City Week was a lot of fun. I hope you enjoyed it, but I think

we've earned ourselves a lighter episode for today. A friend of mine, Rex Williams,

is going to talk about the downsides of the internet,

the externalities and unintended consequences of the internet, and if there were a kill switch would you hit it?

It's a weird question to ask when this program not only exists on the internet

but is made possible by its own listeners via Patreon.

You can join them by going to Patreon.com slash Andrew Heaton.

For this week's bonus episode, Brian Brushwood joins the show to talk about Chris Rock's new comedy

special. We discuss victimhood and status and neurochemicals and just utterly

and completely go off the rails multiple times,

but it's a fun chat and wound up having very little to do

with what I thought it was going to be,

but nonetheless a great chat about Chris Rock's

comedy special and status.

Patrons get a bonus episode of this program every week going back several years

and they tend to gain height and lose weight after contributing so why not join them go to

patreon dot com slash Andrew Heaton and support the orphanage thanks i am joined here today by Rex Williams.

He is the host, one of two hosts of the Whiskey Tribe,

the world's biggest YouTube channel involving Whiskey.

And I believe you were also the host of the

...