Abe Lincoln's Top Hat

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Politics! We know you love them just as much as we do. Join Ben Kissel, Travis Irvine, and Fernando Perez Leon each week as they discuss what's going on in politics and the world of social issues.

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Episodes

Episode 246: Shut Up and Go Swimming with Jimmy Faila

Today on Top Hat: Ben and Marcus are joined by Jimmy Faila to discuss the Oregon shootings and the Internet connection that for some reason no one is talking about.

Oct 06, 2015•58 min•Ep. 113

Episode 245: Action Journey

Today on Top Hat: Ben and Marcus discuss the hypocrisy of the Global Citizens Festival, how Bernie Sanders is destroying Hillary Clinton on social media, and cheese-like products.

Sep 29, 2015•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 112

Episode 244: Between a Rock and a Racist Place

Today on Top Hat: Ben and Marcus discuss the Pope's visit to NYC and friend and Icelander Ragnar Egilsson joins us to give a European perspective on the Republican primaries.

Sep 22, 2015•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 111

Episode 243: The Lambeer Twaz

Today on Top Hat: Ben blows up the Trump phenomenon with an interesting new theory about his relation to hip-hop and the possibility of a Biden run gets the full treatment.

Sep 15, 2015•44 min•Ep. 110

Episode 242: Manbaby

Today on Top Hat: Ben and Marcus discuss Dear Fat People, Hillary Clinton's terrible attempt at rebranding, and the terror that is Huckabee.

Sep 10, 2015•52 min•Ep. 109

In this companion piece to the Last Podcast 9/11 series, Ben and Marcus expand on the wars in the Middle East and why whoever we elect in the next election is going to continue on the same pattern as all the presidencies of the last 20 years.

Sep 03, 2015•28 min•Ep. 108

Episode 240: Vehicular Manslaughter with Mark Normand

Mark Normand joins us to talk about the Bill Burr controversy, the Fat Jew controversy, and the Trump controversy. Which one, you ask? Tune in to find out.

Aug 25, 2015•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 107

Episode 239: The Problem and the Solution

Travis Irvine joins us to talk about the Iowa State Fair, Trump's Batman-like qualities, and what it's been like for Travis to hang out with Roger Stone, one of Trump's up-until-recently top advisers.

Aug 18, 2015•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 106

Episode 238: Nixon Tattoo

Today on Top Hat: Katherine Timpf joins us as we cover the aftermath of the Republican debates, the Bernie Sanders/Black Lives Matter controversies, and the eventual entering of Joe Biden.

Aug 11, 2015•54 min•Ep. 105

Make America Great Again

It's time for Ben to triple down on Team Trump as we approach the first official debate of the 2016 Republican primaries.

Aug 05, 2015•47 min•Ep. 104

Dip a Chip In It

Today on Top Hat: Ben and Marcus talk about the insanity that is the left turning on Jon Stewart, the recent gotcha journalism involving out of context quotes from Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, and of course Ben’s favorite candidate, Trump.

Jul 30, 2015•48 min•Ep. 103

Hillary's Cheese with Katherine Timpf

Today on Top Hat: Katherine Timpf joins us to talk about the supposed race problem of Bernie Sanders, Trump's continuing appeal, and Hillary's unlikeability.

Jul 22, 2015•47 min•Ep. 102

BMW or Bomb with Saman Arbabi

Today on Top Hat: Saman Arbabi joins us to talk about the Iran nuclear deal and why it's actually a pretty solid deal.

Jul 20, 2015•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 101

Not the Time For Intelligence

Travis Irvine of The Guardian joins Ben and Marcus to talk about the gun control record of Bernie Sanders, why Donald Trump is running for President, and the extreme challenge that making climate change funny is.

Jul 20, 2015•56 min•Ep. 100

Episode 225: Not the Time for Intelligence

Jul 12, 2015•56 min•Ep. 99

Episode 224: To Be Fair

Ben and Marcus talk about the different perspectives the two got on the gay marriage Supreme Court ruling from two different areas of the country and how one week changed everything for a significantly large group of Americans.

Jul 12, 2015•38 min•Ep. 98

Episode 223: Absolutely Not Ready with Kevin Barnett

Kevin Barnett joins us this week to talk about the Charleston shootings, the Confederate Flag, and how the brain poison of the Internet helps fuel it all.

Jul 12, 2015•55 min•Ep. 97

Episode 222: Dress for the Job You Want

On a special kinda two-parter recorded on two separate days, Marcus and Ben start the show talking about Rachel Dolezal's antics up to Wednesday and why the story is the definition of a distraction and end it with the discussion up to Monday and why people like to co-opt other cultures.

Jul 12, 2015•48 min•Ep. 96

Episode 221: Just Look At Him

It's another Republican gay pedophile sex scandal this week as we discuss the allegations levied against former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert concerning his time as a wrestling coach in the seventies.

Jul 12, 2015•55 min•Ep. 95

Episode 220: Duggarville

Ben and Marcus talk about the implosion of Josh Duggar and all of the Republicans that are forever linked to the now admitted family values advocate turned molester.

Jul 12, 2015•47 min•Ep. 94

Episode 219: Taking Our Terrorism

On this week's Top Hat we discuss the latest in authority figures killing citizens, this time in the form of corrections officers killing a veteran with PTSD and the Garland, TX Mohammed drawings shooting and how it just might have been allowed to happen by the FBI for their own purposes.

Jul 12, 2015•40 min•Ep. 93

Episode 218: Sweaty Nixon Debate with Scott Greiper

It's another special live debate as Ben plays both moderator and debater with the president and founder of Viridian Captial and Research, Scott Greiper, about the business practices and economics involving the legalization and legitimizing of the weed business.

May 12, 2015•48 min•Ep. 92

Abe Lincoln's Top Hat Episode 217- Particle Accelerator Repairman

Today on Top Hat we discuss Hillary Clinton's involvement in the prison industrial complex, the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, and Ralph Nader's new book, Return to Sender.

May 11, 2015•51 min•Ep. 91

Abe Lincoln's Top Hat Episode 216- Jelly

It's the return of the super panel as Ben and Marcus are joined by Travis Irvine, Katherine Timpf, and Roommate Mike to talk about the Saudi connection to 9/11, why the Republicans have no hope of taking the White House, and the presumptions of Hillary.

May 11, 2015•59 min•Ep. 90

Abe Lincoln's Top Hat Episode 215- The Sweaty Nixon Debate Series: Men's Rights

On this special Sweaty Nixon edition of Top Hat, Ben welcomes Mel Feit, Founder of the National Center for Men and a staunch advocate for Men's Rights and Jason Stanford, Democratic strategist, formerly of Planned Parenthood and founder of Stanford Campaigns to debate the Men's Rights Movements and whether any of their arguments hold water in 21st century America.

May 11, 2015•51 min•Ep. 89

Abe Lincoln's Top Hat Episode 214- A Conversation with Loyiso Gola

Loyiso Gola, host of South Africa's number one satirical news show, Late Night News, sits down with Ben and Marcus to talk about the joys of using puppets, modern day South Africa, and hard times growing up in Cape Town.

May 11, 2015•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 88

Abe Lincoln's Top Hat Episode 213- Doing Time With Ed Larson

Today on Top Hat: Ed Larson is back in town and he's joined us to talk about his experiences while producing Jeff Ross's upcoming jail special, including how he got to know the lives of the people inside, what exactly is wrong with the incarceration system in America, and what the Brazos County Jail does right.

May 11, 2015•52 min•Ep. 87

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