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Title: People went to prison for…MARGARINE?!
Runtime: 0:59
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: When margarine was invented in the last 1800s as a cheap butter substitute, dairy farmers had a cow. So they went to the government and laid it on thick. #food #history #historyfacts

Title: The problem with historic preservation
Runtime: 1:12
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Can your neighbor surprise you with nearly $160,000 in extra renovation costs?

That's what almost happened to Cassandra London, a real estate agent who recently bought a 140-year-old property in Baltimore County. #homes #homeremodel #baltimore

Title: The unstoppable homemade gun
Runtime: 28:23
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: The 3D-printed gun movement has survived the downfall of its charismatic founder, a major defeat at the Supreme Court, and involvement in one of the most talked-about crimes of last year.

Meanwhile, the guns have gotten good. Really good. Today's hobbyist gun makers are creating better and better weapons that are easier and easier to make, including some with wildly creative designs.

There's anger and passionate disagreement about strategy, law, copyright, and leadership. The movement's critics are scathing: Lizzie, who met her husband Spezz through an online 3D-gun printing forum, calls movement founder Cody Wilson "a thief, a federal informant, and a pedophile." Spezz says "most of the cool stuff he does he just steals from other people." Wilson, for his part, is dismissive: "If you have evidence, present your evidence."

But in the meantime, this technology is fundamentally undermining the power of the state to control our access to firearms. An...

Who are the wealthiest people in America?

Title: Who are the wealthiest people in America?
Runtime: 1:12
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Destitute old people are common theme in our culture and in our politics. But here’s the thing. Senior citizens nowadays are filthy rich compared to the rest of us. #retirement #politics

Title: FedEx DELIVERS a lawsuit to Trump
Runtime: 1:20
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: In February, FedEx, the multibillion-dollar shipping giant, sued the federal government over tariffs they’ve paid under the Trump administration. Why, you ask? #Trump #tariffs #politics

0:14— Correction: Trump first imposed tariffs in 2025.

One city is using STRAY CATS to SEIZE property?

Title: One city is using STRAY CATS to SEIZE property?
Runtime: 1:28
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Why is one New Jersey town using stray cats to seize a family-owned tire shop and four homes? #NewJersey #cats #businessowner

Title: America's 250th birthday midlife crisis
Runtime: 2:09
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Andrew Heaton takes stock of the United States on its 250th birthday. #America #history #enlightenment

Title: Taxpayer-funded GOLF for BOOMERS?
Runtime: 1:12
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Your tax dollars help pay for rich old people to golf in paradise.

California residents over 65 and enrolled in the right Medicare plan can get subsidized golf course fees at beautiful Southern California destinations.

It’s part of a federal program called Medicare Advantage, whose supplemental benefits cost taxpayers $6.4 billion in 2022, according to the government. The number has likely grown since then. #retirement #Medicare #seniors

Title: Helping with home birth is a FELONY?!
Runtime: 0:58
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: In Nebraska, it’s a felony for certified nurse midwives to help with home births.

This is nuts! Midwives have delivered babies at home safely for centuries. #birth #motherhood #parenting

Title: If guessing war were a game show
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Were World War I, World War II, Vietnam, the Korean War, Iraq Wars, Afghanistan, War on Poverty, and War on Christmas all wars? Play along in this new game show and you might behave just like a congressman! #war #comedy #gameshow

Title: Is it War?
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: When America sends missiles and tanks into a sovereign country, is it war? Let's find out on America's longest, most depressing game show.!

FORCED to give up her 10-POUND pygmy goat?

Title: FORCED to give up her 10-POUND pygmy goat?
Runtime: 1:39
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Why wouldn’t Powell, Wyoming, let this woman keep her 10-pound pygmy goat?

After the town sent police to Venus Bontadelli’s house to tell her she needed an exotic pet permit to keep her pygmy goat, Porsche Lane, the city denied her a permit. But why?

That’s what Venus wanted to know. #goats #pets #Wyoming

Title: America: The Enlightenment with Muskets
Runtime: 8:43
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Andrew Heaton takes stock of the United States on its 250th birthday.

America has often been hypocritical in executing its foundational beliefs. But the reason that criticism holds weight is because the ideals we've fallen short of are so awesome.

The state used a BEAR to SPY on people?!

Title: The state used a BEAR to SPY on people?!
Runtime: 0:52
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Connecticut found a new way to avoid getting a warrant: surveillance by way of bear.

Mark and Carol Brault own a nature preserve in Hartland, CT. In 2020, Hartland sued Mark, accusing him of illegally feeding bears. Mark denies this allegation.

So imagine his shock when he found Bear Number 119, a bear he has seen many times before, now wearing a camera right outside his house. #Connecticut #bears #bear #FourthAmendment

Title: Should the NIH be Abolished?
Runtime: 1:29:59
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Harvard professor Jeffrey Flier and historian of science Terence Kealey debate the resolution, "The National Institutes of Health should be abolished."

For the affirmative is Kealey, former vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham. He's the author of multiple books, including The Economic Laws of Scientific Research. He is also an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute where he co-authored the white paper Mission Lost: How NIH Leaders Stole Its Promise to America.

For the negative is Flier, the George Higginson professor of physiology and medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also a former clinical associate at the National Institutes of Health.

The debate is moderated by Soho Forum director Gene Epstein.

Title: The military's EV mail truck FAILURE
Runtime: 2:43
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Why is it so hard for the military industrial complex to build an electric mail truck? In February 2021, USPS announced plans to update their delivery fleet. It’s called the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle.

The company that won the contract was Oshkosh Defense. It’s a weird pick, considering a month prior, their website had absolutely zero mention of delivery vehicles.

That’s because Oshkosh is a defense contractor who specializes in “mission-critical technology” for the military. But now they do delivery vehicles…allegedly. #military #electricvehicle #cars #ev

Real patriots eat American-grown bananas

Title: Real patriots eat American-grown bananas
Runtime: 1:05
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Real patriots know, if you want to be America First — you have to eat American grown bananas. Howard Lutnick, the United States Secretary of Commerce, said just ‘Make it in America, no tariff!’

Yeah, good luck with that. Some countries make things we can’t produce ourselves. And sometimes, they just make them cheaper than we can. That’s why free trade is so important. #bananas #tariffs #trade

Everyone Is WRONG About This Jeffrey Epstein Theory I Michael Shellenberger

Title: Everyone Is WRONG About This Jeffrey Epstein Theory I Michael Shellenberger
Runtime: 34:21
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: It is understandable why so many libertarians have wanted to release the Epstein files and why the two members of Congress who led the charge have considerable right/left libertarian tendencies: Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.). Libertarians rightly distrust the federal government and reasonably fear that federal authorities may have covered up Jeffrey Epstein's crimes in order to conceal the involvement of political leaders in both major parties. If you're someone who thinks Democrats and Republicans are corrupt and that both the Clintons and President Donald Trump may have something to hide, you are very likely some kind of libertarian.

From this perspective, the release of millions of pages of federal investigative documents, emails, videos, and photos relating to Epstein may seem like a vital act of government transparency and accountability.

The public has a right to know if the government protected Epstein, who killed himself ...

Teens REVOLT against Australia's social media ban

Title: Teens REVOLT against Australia's social media ban
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Australia just became the first country to ban social media for kids under 16, and Noah Jones is suing to stop it.

Title: Working from home means more babies?
Runtime: 0:51
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Researchers studied people in 39 countries and found those who work from home at least once a week have more babies than those who never work remotely.

Title: Reason Reacts to the State of the Union
Runtime: 3:34
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Andrew Heaton talks with Reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward, Billy Binion, Robby Soave, Christian Britschgi, Eric Boehm, and Reem Ibrahim to get their instant reactions to Trump's State of the Union address.

Title: Trump said WHAT about tariffs?
Runtime: 1:13
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Reem Ibrahim reacts to President Trump's 2026 State of the Union address.

Title: Are stadium subsidies a scam?
Runtime: 1:11
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Owners of professional sports teams are worth billions of dollars. So why is the government giving them your money?

Title: Wikipedia is in trouble
Runtime: 32:31
Date posted: 3 months ago
Description: Wikipedia shapes our perception of reality today more than ever before because it informs the large language models like ChatGPT. But can we really trust it?

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Whom can you trust?

Trust in institutions is at an all-time low. Trust in the media has collapsed.

"Meanwhile, during that same 25-year period, Wikipedia has gone from being kind of a joke to one of the few things people trust," says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, whose new book The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last shares lessons he learned about building trust while creating the world's largest crowdsourced encyclopedia.

He's right that many of us turn to Wikipedia as one of the last trusted sources for information online.

But can we really trust it?

Wikipedia shapes our perception of reality today more than ever before because it informs the large language models like ChatGPT that we...

He had legal pills. Then the cops did THIS.

Title: He had legal pills. Then the cops did THIS.
Runtime: 3:00
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: This is what happens when police drug tests fail.

Read the full story here: https://reason.com/2026/02/23/he-was-jailed-for-fentanyl-it-was-really-his-legal-prescription-meds/

Title: This TWEET lands you in JAIL?!
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: British police arrest an average of 33 people per day for their “offensive” social media posts.

Title: Is Ring SPYING on you?
Runtime: 1:05
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: People are furious about Ring’s Super Bowl ad, which hard launched AI image recognition to help rescue missing dogs, but Ring has a long history of shady surveillance state you-know-what. And it’s way worse than you think.

#tech #technology #home

Title: Is tech making kids sad?
Runtime: 0:55
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Is technology ruining young people's mental health? If you look beyond the hype, there’s a lot of evidence that this isn’t true. In fact, mental health among college students has actually improved in recent years. #tech #technology #parenting

Is this mass surveillance program FINALLY over?

Title: Is this mass surveillance program FINALLY over?
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Should the images captured by 80,000 cameras surveilling Americans 24/7 be available to the public?

Flock Safety is an Orwellian mass surveillance program using artificial intelligence automatic license plate readers connected to a nationwide database. Reason covered it last year, and a lot has changed. #technology #tech #car #cars

Title: ‘I’ve upset a lot of billionaires’
Runtime: 0:48
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Rep. Thomas Massie partnered with Rep. Ro Khanna on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which forced the Department of Justice (DOJ) to "to publish (in a searchable and downloadable format) all unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in DOJ's possession that relate to the investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein."

We spoke with Massie on The Reason Interview, where he said the "sloppiness" of the DOJ in redacting and releasing those files amounts to "criminal negligence" on behalf of Attorney General Pam Bondi, says Massie. #EpsteinFiles #politics #interview

Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Pickpockets, Cleveland Balloons, Ivanpah Solar (Vol. 20)

Title: Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Pickpockets, Cleveland Balloons, Ivanpah Solar (Vol. 20)
Runtime: 2:40
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Good intentions, bad results.

Watch the whole series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lUrH4Sbgh8&list=PLBuns9Evn1w9XhnH7vVh_7C65wJbaBECK&index=1

Do you know a great moment in unintended consequences? Leave a comment or email us at comedy@reason.com.
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PART 1: The Error Up There

The Year: 1986

The Problem: The United Way needs money! And Cleveland needs some fun!

The Solution: Ballonfest '86! A fundraising event to set the Guinness World Record for releasing helium balloons!

Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?

Turns out, balloons don't disappear! Cheering crowds watched a colorful cloud of nearly 1.5 million balloons rise skyward—right into an approaching cold front. Moments later, latex orbs rained down on the city, polluting waterways, grounding flights, causing traffic accidents, spooking livestock, and hindering a Coast Guard ...

Title: Why did the FBI investigate a song?!
Runtime: 0:43
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: The FBI opened an official case of possible interstate transportation of obscene matter and spent two years combing through every poorly enunciated lyric of “Louie, Louie” before declaring the song “free of obscenity.” Which was wrong! #music #history #historyfacts #FBI

Title: Why do taxpayers pay for stadiums?
Runtime: 7:18
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Sports subsidies suck.
If sports is a trillion dollar industry, with billionaire team owners and millionaire players, and hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic fans, and weird pervert mascot creatures, why is the government giving them your money?

These climate change charts are wrong. Here are the real versions.

Title: These climate change charts are wrong. Here are the real versions.
Runtime: 6:41
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: The job of scientists isn't to manufacture alarm. It's to communicate the truth.

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Sensible progress requires honestly evaluating climate change and devising realistic strategies to address it, not manipulating data to generate hockey sticks. The job of scientists isn't to manufacture alarm. It's to communicate the truth.

What happens when the feds violate your rights?

Title: What happens when the feds violate your rights?
Runtime: 1:29
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: You’ve probably never heard of Webster Bivens, but he was at center of a Supreme Court case that became one of the most important in history. #history #historytime #SupremeCourt #scotus

California's $135 BILLION train to NOWHERE

Title: California's $135 BILLION train to NOWHERE
Runtime: 2:57
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: How did California spend $15 billion over 16 years building a train to nowhere? Oh wait…There is no train! They haven’t laid a single track. #California #train #transportation

Title: What happens when you DOUBLE wealth?
Runtime: 1:17
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: If you double the real wealth of everyone in the country, not just adding imaginary fiat money to the supply like we’re currently doing, you will dramatically increase inequality. Is that bad?

#money #finance #wealth #economics

What socialists get wrong about "free" daycare

Title: What socialists get wrong about "free" daycare
Runtime: 6:11
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: The more the government intervenes in the market, the more New York parents pay for child care.

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Mamdani ran on the most ambitious universal child care proposal in the country: free day care for all kids ages 6 weeks and above. Apparently, this pitch was compelling to the city's beleaguered parents: The self-styled socialist won by a hefty margin.

There is a fundamental tension at play in all efforts to make child care cheaper. It is profoundly labor-intensive, requiring great human resources to be expended. The most engaged, most highly qualified people won't be attracted to these jobs. You can sometimes get highly motivated, highly educated, super-qualified workers to perform the labor of child care—if it's for their own kids. That those families are penalized in today's New York, forced to fund the universal child care system with their tax dollars while not availing themselves of it, is wrong and unfair. It's made even mo...

Title: When opposites attract
Runtime: 1:30
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren are political opposites, right? They’ve been saying mean things about each other for years. But lately we’ve been noticing a lot of similarities in their ideas.

Maybe this explains why so many people are fed up with both major parties. #Republicans #Democrats #politics

Title: Why are cops mad about ICE?
Runtime: 1:23
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Reason’s Matt Welch shares how even “back the blue” MAGA-type NYPD cops are mad about what’s happening with ICE. Hear more on The Reason Roundtable podcast. #ICE #police #podcast

Title: Will A.I. Benefit EVERYONE?
Runtime: 1:41:52
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: A Soho Forum debate on artificial intelligence's potential to deliver widespread societal benefits

Technology authors Perry Metzger and Brian Merchant debate the resolution, "Artificial Intelligence will provide enormous net benefits to nearly every member of society."

Metzger is taking the affirmative. He is the co-founder and and chairman of the board of Alliance for the Future, and the author of science comic Computers: How Digital Hardware Works.

Merchant is taking the negative. He is a reporter in residence at the AI Now Institute. He's also the author of two books, The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone and Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech.

The debate is moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

Title: The Last Journey
Runtime: 27:08
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: In search of emotional healing and inner peace, Lisa joins a weekend psilocybin retreat with two other women also living with cancer. The retreat is guided by Heather A. Lee, a certified psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist in Colorado and a breast cancer survivor herself. Heather is at the forefront of pioneering safe, legal, and compassionate retreats for women at all stages of their cancers. Directed by Arthur Nazaryan and produced by the team at Reason TV, Last Journey is a testament to the strength, resilience, and inner wisdom of women—and to psilocybin’s potential to bring relief, meaning, and beauty to life’s most vulnerable moments.

Director: Arthur Nazaryan
Co-Director: Qinling Li
Producer: Arthur Nazaryan
Director of Photography: Arthur Nazaryan
Cinematographers: Arthur Nazaryan, Mike Shum
Writer: Qinling Li
Editors: Qinling Li, Phoebe McFarb
Associate Editor: Michelle Gao
Story Consultant: Mike Shum
S...

Title: How New York made winter roads WORSE
Runtime: 1:25
Date posted: 4 months ago
Description: Did you know NYC buys 300,000 tons of road salt per year?

New York is home to the largest salt mine in the U.S., so politicians had an idea and it made winter roads worse. #NewYork #winter #storm

Does America have an inequality problem?

Title: Does America have an inequality problem?
Runtime: 2:06
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: Concerns about inequality in America are rampant. And they are wrong. America doesn’t have an inequality problem. We have a measurement problem.

#wealth #money #finance #comedy

Where does billions in unspent hurricane aid go?

Title: Where does billions in unspent hurricane aid go?
Runtime: 1:51
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: Thirteen years after Hurricane Sandy, the Federal Transit Administration is sitting on $3.8 billion in unused funds. So what does the government do with billions in unspent hurricane relief money? #hurricane #government

The real reason flying feels worse today

Title: The real reason flying feels worse today
Runtime: 14:44
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: Sixty years ago, commercial air travel was nothing like how it is today.

Nostalgia for the days of more spacious cabins, dressier passengers, and luxury food service is a common sight on social media. In some ways, those viral posts make a compelling point. Flying is often drudgery today. Long lines and insufficient legroom—and of course the irritating Transportation Security Administration (TSA)—make flying sometimes feel more like a chore than a miraculous accomplishment of human ingenuity.

Who wouldn't rather be on a plane in the 1960s instead of one today?

The answer: you.

Those old-school airlines might have been luxurious, but those flights were unaffordable for the vast majority of Americans. If you lived back then, you wouldn't be flying in style. You'd probably not be flying at all.

0:00- Introduction
1:33- Part 1: "The Good Old Days"
4:33- Part 2: "No Assholes Need Apply"
8:24- Part 3: You...

A SECRET bioweapon test in San Francisco?!

Title: A SECRET bioweapon test in San Francisco?!
Runtime: 2:59
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: Why did the Navy intentionally blast 800,000 people with a bioweapon in one of America’s biggest cities? #History #HistoryFacts #California #SanFrancisco

Title: Why do people want the right to die?
Runtime: 14:00
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: Medical Aid in Dying was once a felony in the United States. Now it’s legal in a dozen states and the District of Columbia. The latest battleground is New York, where advocates and opponents struggle over the passage of a law 10 years in the making. Is Medical Aid in Dying a fundamental right? Or a slippery slope toward state-supported suicide?

Producer: Kevin P. Alexander
Video editors: Kevin P. Alexander and Daniel Schloss
Graphics: Adani Samat
Camera: Daniel Schloss, Tyler Harmon-Townsend and Kevin P. Alexander
Managing Editor: Natalie Dowzicky
Executive Editor: Jim Epstein

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They released a million balloons. THIS happened.

Title: They released a million balloons. THIS happened.
Runtime: 0:55
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: In 1986, the United Way decided to host a fundraising event to set the Guinness World Record for releasing helium balloons. Sounds like a great idea! With the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong? #ohio #cleveland #history #historyfacts

Title: Obamacare has a HUGE fraud problem
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 5 months ago
Description: Government auditors signed 24 fake people up for Obamacare subsidies. Guess how many of those fake applications got denied?

Exactly…one. #healthcare #obamacare #health #government

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