In our very first episode, Dalton proclaimed that Professor & the Idiot was a free speech podcast. This week, Nick asks Dalton what he meant by that. Why is the first amendment important? What are the trade-offs of laws against hate speech? Germany, for instance, prohibits Nazi speech & symbols because of its past. What speech is legally limited in the United States? The discussion becomes unusually heated on this last point.

Victor Wallis teaches college & preaches revolution. Among his many books is Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism. Dalton & Nick, ever fascinated by far-left politics, ask

Victor about the red-green revolution, & raise the objections you knew were coming. Despite our allegiance to capitalism, we also found some things we could all agree on.

Nick's in Tokyo this week, so we talk about Japan, both as experienced by an American tourist & historically.

This week Dr. David Ley joins us to talk sex & porn. David is a clinical psychologist, author of multiple books, contributor to Psychology Today, & jiu jitsu black belt. Why do Americans have such unique hangups about sex? Why has the idea of pornography addiction become widespread? Are some people just not cut out for monogamy? Why does David like rolling in the gi, while Dalton & Nick are purely nogi grapplers?

Joe Rogan has a super popular podcast with a unique style & a wide range of guests. Dalton is a huge fan, & describes it as a big influence in his life. Nick appreciates some episodes & thinks Rogan is a talented host, but is critical of the overall product. This week we argue about it for over an hour.

This week Dalton & Nick talk to Jasper Bernes, managing editor of Commune magazine. Commune is a popular magazine devoted to "a new era of revolution" & opposition to capitalism. We try to get a sense of what revolutionary thought looks like in 2019 in the wake of the failure of 20th century communism. Are Bernie Sanders & AOC just figures at the left end of the Democratic Party, or true revolutionaries? Listen for Jasper's answers, before the episode devolves into a discussion of jiu jitsu & martial arts more generally.

Dalton & Nick cover two things in the news, Jussie Smollett & the preliminary results of the Mueller investigation, before the episode inevitably degenerates into an argument over government power. This time around we discuss the federal government's ability to start (or join) wars. Dalton thinks the architects of Vietnam & Desert Storm are a bunch of murderers; Nick is more circumspect.

Sex robots are coming! This week Dalton & Nick talk with Marina Adshade, an economist at the University of British Columbia who's written a lot about sex bots. What are sex robots, & what can they do? Marina is optimistic about the prospects of robots for making relationships better by serving as the, um, receptacles of unmet sexual desires. Nick is customarily cautious about predicting the future to come, & Dalton is all for it on the basis of his libertarianism.

This week Dalton & Nick interview Roderick Graham, a sociologist who's written a great new article on Medium about the ADOS movement, which calls for reparations for descendants of enslaved Americans. ADOS isn't a new idea, but it's only recently been part of the mainstream conversation. We also talk about race in America more generally, & Rod offers interesting & unusual answers about racism.

As a libertarian, Dalton questions the minimum wage; Nick argues why we need to have one, and why it should be higher. All of this is far more interesting than this description might suggest.