THIS WEEK: - We get to the meat of the automation debate

- What do we actually mean when we say "automation"? 

- What can we learn from prior industrial revolutions?

- Rate of innovation vs. rate of job replacement

- Why AI might be different than other technologies

- Charting a strategic path vs. "letting the market sort it out"

THIS WEEK:

- Ben and Nigel start Conversation 1 about automation, competing conceptions about the future of work, and whether we should believe the most popular fears of people like Andrew Yang

BIG BOY NEWS SEGMENT:

- dEmOn RaT rAcE Update

- Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act Episode about Justin Trudeau

- Boris Johnson and the Chamber of Brexit 

THIS WEEK:

- What are the alternatives to the minimum wage?

- Differences between Universal Basic Income, Guaranteed Minimum Income, Negative Income Tax and Income Tax Credits 

- What is the role of job retraining, wage subsidies 

BIG BOY NEWS SEGMENT:

- Trump may face a primary challenger

- Hong Kong protests -- what the hell is going on, as well as a brief history

- Trump's wild comments claiming to be the best president for jews

- Totally unnecessary rant about Ted Cruz

This Week:

- Ben and Nigel lay down the hot, hot facts about minimum wage in the research round

- The Card and Kreuger study, the Seattle minimum wage ordinance

- Does the minimum wage kill jobs, increase inflation, etc.

BONUS Big Boy News Segment:

- Our second installment on the DEMONRAT Race 

This Week:

- Nigel and Ben get all their hot garbage thoughts out about the minimum wage

- Does it let corporations off too easily? Does it interfere with negotiations between the company and the individual? Or is it a vital part of workers' rights that we erode at our peril?

Big Boy News Segment:

- Trump's racist "go back to where you came from tweets" 

-Comparing U.S. southern border coverage vs. coverage of China's attacks on Uyghur muslims

- And other such pointless controversies as the black little mermaid, Scarlett Johanssen not playing a trans person on film, and Chris Pratt's shirt

This Week:

- Free Trade -- it ain't so free, but it should be

- The difference between the theoretical arguments for free trade vs the reality of current trade deals

Big Boy News Segment:

- Journalist Andy Ngo assaulted by Antifa in Portland

- Anne Widdecombe's dumbass EU rant 

- Justin Amash leaves the Republican Party

- Democratic debates breakdown

This Week:

- Nigel and Ben come back with their significantly less hot takes about free trade and protectionism

- Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Friedrich List and all those economist guyz who left behind beautiful corpses 

- Explaining absolute advantage and comparative advantage to understand why we even do free trade in the first place

- Dani Rodrik and the important distinction between free trade and free trade agreements

- TPP, TIPP, NAFTA, the WTO and all those good good acronyms

This Week: - It's Free Trade vs. Protectionism as a dichotomy for modern economic policy, and these boys are rEaDy To RuMbLe

- What are the benefits and costs on a national scale? A global scale?

- What the heck is Free Trade even, technically speaking?

Big Boy News Segment:

- So the Straight Pride Parade is apparently a thing, Ben and Nigel have thoughts...

- Vox journalist Twitter thread goes viral after calling out a huge conservative pundit Steven Crowder on history of derogatory remarks, and the consequences for all YouTube creators could be huge

- Sinclair Network weatherman fired after refusing to call regular weather "Code Red"

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This Week:

- Ben and Nigel both no longer believe in political polling

- Polls can tell us what people think, but not why

- Political polling's negative effects on Democracy

Big Boy News Segment:

- Alabama PBS refuses to air Mr. Ratburn's gay wedding

- Alabama continues to earn garbage points for its garbage abortion laws

- Milkshaking: the tastiest form of political protest?

- Who is Rob Carbone and what is the Republican Party of Canada?

This Week: - Ben and Nigel dig deeper into the world of political polling

- How are polls conducted?

- Statistical illiteracy vs. problematic polling methods

- Common methods of polling error

- Do we even need political polling anyway?

- How accurate has polling been historically?

- Were the polls in 2016 inaccurate? 

BONUS:

- Mr. Ratburn is gay

- Ben Shapiro gets owned on the BBC

- An excess amount of fake ad reads this week