Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Recent Episodes

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Charlie says goodbye to Mad Dogs and Englishmen, and hello to his new solo show.

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Kevin and Charlie have a disagreement.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Charlie’s cursed week, and inform listeners that, contrary to popular belief, they do not own a bar in Tampa.

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Kevin and Charlie talk about Vegas, where Charlie is currently, and Kevin’s upcoming Sunday column.

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Kevin and Charlie swap IRS horror stories.

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Kevin asks Jimmy Quinn why we should care about TikTok.

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Kevin is joined by Dominic Pino, National Review’s Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow, to discuss Burke, strikes, unions, and much more.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss the heat, the foiled mass shooting in Indiana, and Hunter Biden.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss the pronunciation of “taco,” grammar, Jill Biden, the irrelevance of First Ladies, and inflation.

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Kevin and Charlie are back after a month-long hiatus to discuss the Court and to define some terms that are often carelessly thrown around.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss inflation and its rapid incursion into all areas of American life.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss yesterday’s primary elections in Georgia and Saul Cornell on guns.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss the Buffalo shooting and the Pennsylvania primaries.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Joan Walsh's memory loss and national inflation.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss this week’s hot topic: the ban on menthol cigarettes.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Elon Musk, the Internet, and student debt.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss the upcoming French election and Governor DeSantis’s ill-advised move on Disney.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Biden’s proposed billionaire tax.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s worrisome inability to define a woman.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Wordle, social media, Covid, and whether or not we need to give Putin an “off-ramp.”

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Kevin and Charlie discuss the current exorbitant gas prices.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss how Americans should view the Russia–Ukraine conflict.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss the ongoing Ukrainian crisis.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss free speech, Canada’s invocation of its Emergency Powers Act, and much more.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss the New York Times’ opinion page and free speech.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Big Tent parties and Clarence Thomas’s memoir.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Justice Breyer’s retirement announcement and vaccine mandates.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Biden’s first year in office, federalism, and more.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss cigarettes, alcohol, and the filibuster.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss CNN’s failings on Covid, the one-year anniversary of January 6, and more.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss their retail experiences, Charlie’s upcoming travels, and much more.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss their varying degrees of handiness, the strange Ron DeSantis hysteria, and Biden’s mental status.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Barbados and today’s oral arguments in the Dobbs case.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss inconsistencies concerning age-restricted activities, COP26, and more.

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Kevin and Charlie disagree over the 'Let’s go Brandon’ chant and discuss Joe Manchin.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss some interesting aspects of the U.K., VA politics, and more.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Kevin’s upcoming magazine piece on San Fransisco’s shoplifting epidemic, drinking on the street, the future of fusionism, and much more.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss driving fancy cars, literature, the imperial presidency, and much more.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss why we shouldn’t be ok with student-loan forgiveness. 

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Kevin’s upcoming print magazine piece. 

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Kevin and Charlie discuss the ACLU’s ridiculous rewrite of a famous RBG quote.

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Kevin and Charlie discuss AOC’s Met Gala dress, the Biden administration’s bad marketing on COVID vaccines, and more. 

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Kevin and Charlie discuss the 20th anniversary of 9/11. 

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Kevin and Charlie discuss Big Bend, Texas, and the new Texas abortion law.

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The Veterans Administration scandal and government-run healthcare.

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What’s wrong with education?

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The Democrats’ plan to amend the First Amendment.

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Sixty years after Brown v Board of Education, where are we?

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Rollercoasters, and what they tell us about America.

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New York’s awful transport monopolies, the death penalty, the virtue of the stocks.

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What were George Orwell’s politics and how should conservatives regard him?

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Donald Sterling, privacy, and the myth that America’s two parties “switched.”

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Part two of a special from the NRA Convention. Discussion of the NRA’s new challenge and the nature of its opposition. Kindly sponsored by Remington.

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An NRA Convention special, with Jim Geraghty, Governor Mike Pence, and Senator Marco Rubio. Kindly sponsored by Remington.

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*Poor sound quality — apologies. Georgia’s new gun laws, hello from the NRA convention.

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Chris Hayes’s brilliant plan to avert the end of the world, today’s Supreme Court decisions, the nature of the Roberts court.

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Charlie’s trip to New Orleans, the diversity of the country, and how a free country should treat the mentally ill.

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Atheism, culture, and religion; whether America can survive without Christianity; and the many virtues of federalism.

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Charlie’s trip to Smith & Wesson, a continuing argument about the Bundy case, a quick foray into Edward Snowden.

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Tax reform, the best arrangement for American government, what should happen to Lois Lerner, how good Charlie and Kevin are with their taxes . . .

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Whether the rule of law is a real thing, to what extent it should be followed, and what Bonnie and Clyde tell us about the federal government.

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How does a nation’s culture affect its politics?

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France’s new labor laws, Brandeis’s decision to disinvite Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the insecurity at the heart of the anti-free speech brigade.

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What we can learn from today’s knife attack in Pennsylvania, and the silliness that is Vox’s mission statement.

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Eric Holder’s research into ‘smart’ guns, the “gender pay gap,” the Brendan Eich firing, why Kevin loathes Yoko Ono.

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The Left’s take on the Brendan Eich case, the libertarian position on employment legislation, and the importance of protecting unpopular speech.

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The McCutcheon v. FEC Supreme Court decision.

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The folly of conflating ideology and class, the trouble with political language, and whether or not it’s worth fighting people who hate you.

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Kevin’s ongoing debate with Nick Gillespie, whether libertarianism will be popular in 2016, the #CancelColbert campaign.

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Leland Yee, Democratic scandals, the different way in which progressives and conservatives see human nature, Charlie’s new Sig Sauer P229.

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The Hobby Lobby case, the differing ways in which people conceptualize civil society.

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Charlie rants about America’s exceptional free speech laws and against the Obama administration’s decision to relinquish oversight of ICANN.

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Charlie and Kevin discuss mid-term election predictions, President Obama’s use of the word ‘clobbered,’ and pro-life libertarians.

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The problem with the “socially liberal but economically conservative” claim.

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Charlie and Kevin discuss how America’s future might look similar to Puerto Rico’s present.

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The weird way in which the NRA is covered by the media, the Democrats’ new obsession with the Koch Brothers, communicating difficult ideas during elections.

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Charlie and Kevin discuss climate change, Zach Galifianakis’s interview of President Obama, and if there is hope for Hollywood.

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Unions against Obamacare, the death of the Adebgile nomination, the political consequences of the nuclear option, Charlie’s CCW.

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Lois Lerner, Moms Demand Action’s case again Facebook, Charlie’s endless wait for a Connecticut gun permit.

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The Obama administration’s plan to delay Obamacare yet again.

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*Poor sound quality — apologies. The situation in Ukraine, the 9th Circuit’s upholding a California’s school’s decision to ban American flags from the school grounds.

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Can an atheist like Charlie be a conservative?

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Alec Baldwin’s threat to leave New York, Piers Morgan being fired from CNN.

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Why are some American progressives so defensive of Chavez and Maduro? Why does socialism lend itself inevitably to violence and dysfunction?

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Charlie and Kevin discuss Charlie’s appearance on The Bill Maher Show, the government’s right to legislate discrimination, and why France is the California of Europe.

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2016 (or, rather, not!), the regrettable focus on the presidency, the minimum wage.

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Irresistible California, the nature of the American justice system, the importance of carrying a gun responsibly.