Abe Lincoln's Top Hat

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today on Top Hat: Rae Sanni joins us to talk about Ted Cruz, his speech at Liberty University, and the reprimand policy surrounding the school. Abortion? 80 reprimands.

Ted Cruz has thrown his hat into the Presidential ring, Netanyahu immediately causes problems for Obama after the Israeli elections, and fairly new congressman Aaron Schock resigns amidst a Downton Abbey themed scandal.

Today on Top Hat: New York Daily News writer Adam Edelman joins us to talk about Israel's elections, Clinton fatigue, and the frontrunners for the Republican Presidential nomination.

Today on Top Hat: Ben and Marcus discuss a recent subway shooting here in NYC, Putin's disappearance, and the Bibi Netanyahu.

Today on Top Hat: it's an email kerfluffle this week as Lindsey Graham admits to never sending an email while Hillary Clinton is discovered to have sent all of hers kinda sorta maybe illegally.

Today on Top Hat: it's time for a cake cutting ceremony as Texas celebrates ten years of banning gay marriage, Scott Walker continues to embarrass himself on the national stage, and the nation's foremost climate change denier brin

Today on Top Hat: Molly Knefel joins us to talk about the politics of the Oscars!

Today on Top Hat: Roommate Mike joins us to talk about Tom Tillis' no wash bathroom remarks and how Michael Jordan's beating of Bill Paxton fits in to the general mood of American politics.

Today on Top Hat: it's a live Sweaty Nixon Top Hat as Ben is joined by former NYPD officer Eric Reynolds and stand-up comedian/activist Ted Alexandro on stage at the Creek and the Cave to talk about the recent NYPD work slow down and systemic racism in America today.

Today on Top Hat: former Onion writer and editor Joe Garden joins Ben and Marcus to talk about the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the place of satire in society, and the Onion's 9/11 issue.

Today on Top Hat: Rae Sanni joins us to talk about the NYPD work stoppage and if its actually a good thing and the latest revelations about GOP Representative Steve Scalise giving a speech to a white supremacist group in 2002.

Today on Top Hat: Ben and Marcus talk the 2015 spending bill which has once again handed the country over to the rich and the CIA torture memo which reported the forced feeding pureed of pasta into the rectums of POWS.

Today on Top Hat: Curtis Sliwa of WABC's top rated show Curtis and Kuby, and Eric Reynolds, the NYPD officer who made the first arrest in the Central Park Five case, join Marcus and Ben to talk about the Eric Garner grand jury, what makes a racist cop, and Curtis' early days as the founder of the Guardian Angels here in the New York City.