The Conservatarians, aka Jon Gabriel and Stephen Miller, welcome movie director Ted Balaker to talk about his new documentary, Can We Take a Joke? The film interviews top comedians about the chilling effect of the outrage brigades on comedy, from Lenny Bruce to today's university safe spaces.

Ted is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist, a founding member of ReasonTV and executive producer on the feature documentary Honor Flight. He’s also the co-creator of "The Drew Carey Project" and, before that, spent five years producing at ABC Network News.

Intro and outro music is “11th Dimension” by Julian Casablancas. Stephen's music picks this week are Psychedelic Swamp by Dr. Dog and The Hope Six Demolition Project by PJ Harvey. Jon's music pick is Drone Pop #1 by Documenta.

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