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Nav Bhatia, the first fan to be inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame, joins us this week to talk about his passion for basketball, life, and entrepreneurship.

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https://www.councilforeconed.org/2021/05/25/mount-hebron-high-school-in-ellicott-city-md-clinches-the-21st-annual-national-economics-challenge-from-the-council-for-economic-education/

https://dnyuz.com/2021/05/29/an-arms-race-in-america-gun-buying-spiked-during-the-pandemic-its-still-up/

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/do-deficits-matter-anymore-biden-s-first-budget-signals-they-don-t/ar-AAKuHYg

Topic of the Week

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/basketball/superfan-navdeep-bhatia-his-journey-from-1984-riots-to-nba-hall-of-fame-7326814/

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Blake Scott Ball joins us to discuss his book on Charles Schulz and the political narrative in the Peanuts comic that managed to attract both liberals and conservatives.

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https://www.oddee.com/psychedelic-fungus-causes-cicadas-butts-to-fall-off-and-takes-their-place-58847/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/middleeast/jewish-man-organ-donation-arab-woman-intl-cmd/index.html

Foolishness of the Week

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/554894-greene-under-fire-for-comparing-mask-policy-to-the-holocaust-a-neurotic-lack?rl=1

Topic of the Week

Blake Scott Ball

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http://blakescottball.medium.com

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Sykes Wilford, founder and CEO of smokingpipes.com joins us this week to discuss his experience as a successful entrepreneur in an industry that has shrunk by 98 percent and that the government has targeted for eventual obliteration.

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Warren Buffetthttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/buffett-its-corporate-fiction-to-say-higher-business-taxes-hurt-customers-172536348.html

China in Space

https://apnews.com/article/china-technology-business-science-e1c1d0679aa78a8cc79c04a4d1375322

UFOs

https://www.the-sun.com/news/2891893/us-navy-vid-shows-ufo-whizzing-through-sky/

Masks

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mask-no-mask-new-rules-leave-americans-recalibrating-hour-by-hour/ar-BB1gM7FO

Foolishness of the Week

The Story

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/smallbusiness/the-man-who-didnt-invent-flamin-hot-cheetos/ar-BB1gMYd1

Our Error

https://fee.org/shows/audio/words-numbers/Arguing-Outcomes-Instead-of-Principles-Puts-the-Cart-Before-the-Horse

Topic of the Week

SmokingPipes.com

https://corporate.laudisi.com

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Vann Prime, an award-winning public school teacher from (in his words) a standard public school - not rich, not poor, not magnet or charter - joins us to talk about good things happening at his public school and how we might improve public schools in general.

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/30/opinion/politics/bubble-politics.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/catholic-schools-are-losing-students-at-record-rates-and-hundreds-are-closing-11620651600

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/a-blinking-light-ahead-slowing-population-growth-raises-questions-about-america-as-a-land-with-unlimited-horizons/ar-BB1gxEif

Topic of the Week

Good news about a public school

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Nicole Neily, President of Speech First joins us this week to discuss free speech on college campuses. A growing number of colleges have been restricting speech, both of students and faculty. In defining undesirable speech overly broadly, a chill has been growing in higher education wherein students, faculty, and even administrators are censoring their own speech rather than risk running afoul of rules that can mean expulsion and termination.

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https://www.oddee.com/hundreds-of-joshes-battle-with-pool-noodles-to-determine-the-ultimate-josh-58155/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1V9_EY-TY0

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/historic-life-saving-step-fda-moves-ban-menthol-cigarettes-flavored-n1265823

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/04/30/a-proclamation-on-loyalty-day-2021/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day

Topic of the Week

https://speechfirst.org

https://provost.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/documents/reports/FOECommitteeReport.pdf

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Philanthropist, lawyer, entrepreneur, musician, and armchair philosopher John LeFebvre joins us this week to discuss philanthropy, run-ins with the law, and how the world is becoming a better place.

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https://www.wtae.com/article/animal-control-croissant-call/36164733

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/us/some-mass-vaccination-sites-in-us-close-as-demand-begins-to-fall.html

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

Foolishness of the Week

https://nypost.com/2021/04/22/usps-reportedly-tracking-americans-social-media-posts/

Topic of the Week

https://www.johnlefebvre.com/

https://www.amazon.com/John-Lefebvre/e/B071FPBMY4

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Clark Neily returns this week to discuss recent court cases involving developments with qualified immunity.

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https://www.thecentersquare.com/west_virginia/west-virginia-ranks-as-one-of-the-worst-states-for-economic-freedom/article_4573ddba-4a27-11eb-8412-6739f37a0035.html

https://www.npr.org/local/305/2021/04/14/987174386/west-virginia-is-paying-remote-workers-12-000-to-move-there

https://www.macrotrends.net/states/west-virginia/population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bill_of_1937

https://www.reuters.com/business/legal/most-americans-want-end-lifetime-supreme-court-appointments-2021-04-18/

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388184/new-york-affordable-internet-cost-low-income-price-cap-bill

Topic of the Week: Qualified Immunity

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This week, comedian and political commentator Andrew Heaton joins us to talk about his forthcoming book on Tribalism.

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Keep Wearing Masks

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html

https://www.uchealth.org/today/why-we-must-wear-masks-even-after-getting-the-covid-19-vaccine/

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/03/30/981303287/should-masking-last-beyond-the-pandemic-flu-and-colds-are-down-spurring-a-debate

Foolishness of the Week

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-8e31fdc2b54f9d61e4d317449507c7be

Topic of the Week

Andrew Heaton

https://mightyheaton.com/aboutandrewheaton

The Political Orphanage

https://mightyheaton.com/the-political-orphanage

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The latest Congressional Budget Office numbers are out showing how much different income groups pay in federal taxes. We combine these numbers with our informal surveys of students to find some interesting conclusions as to who is and is not paying their fair share.

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Shrinking Inequality

https://www.wsj.com/articles/incredible-shrinking-income-inequality-11616517284

Quality of Life https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2011/demo/well-being/p70-136.html

Virus Passes

https://www.politico.eu/article/united-kingdom-coronavirus-certificate-sporting-events-nightclubs/

Foolishness of the Week

Weddings in Vegas

https://apnews.com/article/occasions-weddings-couples-marriage-las-vegas-39d3418e06b212a63ade2e61eda295dc

Topic of the Week: Income

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56575

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Russell Shorto joins us this week to discuss his latest book, Smalltime: A story of my family and the mob.

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Postal Service

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-postal-service-overhaul-calls-for-higher-prices-slower-mail-and-more-packages-11616509800

Alien Languages

https://www.wsj.com/articles/alien-languages-may-not-be-entirely-alien-to-us-11616817660

Foolishness of the Week

Lifeguard Millionaires

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/03/27/top-paid-la-lifeguards-earned-up-to-392000-in-2019/

This Week on Patreon

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-pandemic-fuels-boomin-virtual-reality.html

Topic of the Week: Smalltime

Russell Shorto

https://www.russellshorto.com

https://www.amazon.com/Smalltime-Story-My-Family-Mob/dp/0393245586

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