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Fun Police

Consumer Choice Center

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/38d. Total Eps: 14

Fun Police is an original podcast series produced by the Consumer Choice Center. We take a look at the perpetrators of neo-prohibitionism, the movement that attempts to ban "vices" such as vaping, smoking, drinking, gambling, and others. We host high-level guests to discuss the history and current expression of prohibitionism.

Written and produced by Bill Wirtz.

New episodes dropping week by week, starting March 5, 2025.

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🇨🇦 Canada - documentary
08/03/2025
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S3 Episode 1: Ancient rights and modern problems

Season 3 · Episode 1

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 • Duration 42:58

In this season of Fun Police, we are focusing specifically on Canada, a country which unlike any other displays all the things that go wrong with neo-prohibitionism.

In this first episode: an unholy alliance of holy rituals and profiteers of prohibitionism.

Act 1: A question of tradition

Act 2: A lucrative scheme

Act 3: The difference between hurt and harm

Released on March 5, 2025.

More resources of the Fun Police campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/fun-police/

Check out our weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

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Season 3 trailer

Season 3

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 • Duration 01:00

The official trailer for the third season of Fun Police. Episodes start streaming March 5th.

Released on February 26, 2025.

More resources of the Fun Police campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/fun-police/

Check out our weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

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S1 Episode 3: Harm reduction

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 • Duration 52:06

Many people attempt to quit smoking, but it's a difficult task. With the availability of smoking cessation devices, the question is: how effective are they, and why are they being treated the same as smoking? In this episode, we take a look at tobacco harm reduction, its proponents and adversaries.

Act 1: Thank you for Not Smoking

Act 2: Just Say No

Act 3: Difficult goodbyes

Released on November 29, 2023

More resources of the Fun Police campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/fun-police/

Check out the weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

Check out Consumer Choice Podcast (formerly Consumer Choice Radio): https://consumerchoicecenter.org/radio/

Fun Police is a Consumer Choice Center original podcast. This episode was written and researched by Bill Wirtz. Contributing research by Elizabeth Hicks and Emil Panzaru. Editing by Yaël Ossowski and Bill Wirtz.

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S1 Episode 2: The Billionaire

Season 1 · Episode 2

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 • Duration 35:01

Episode 2: The Billionaire

Every prohibitionist movement needs its funders. Its moneymen. Usually, there are powerful industrialists who've made it big and are "giving back" by restricting choices of the little people. For popular movements against alcohol in the 1900s, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford were the principal philanthropists. Neoprohibitionists now rely on a man with a name as iconic as his money: Michael Bloomberg.

Through his three-term New York City mayoral stint and global funding campaign against sugar, salt, trans-fats, and vaping products, Fun Police Captain Michael Bloomberg cuts above the prohibitionist industrialists of the past. With his major connections and funding to hundreds of NGOs and global treaty organizations, including the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and groups like Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids, Bloomberg's quests have gone far beyond simple education to directly shape policy that deprives consumers of making their own choices.

For more, we interview investigative journalist Marc Gunther, who has studied this in depth, and unveils the unfortunate human toll of Bloomberg's crusade against vaping products used by adults.

Act 1: The fruits of capitalism grow poisonous

Act 2: The Bloomberg Terminal cause

Act 3: Where it all ends

Released on November 22, 2023

More resources of the Fun Police campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/fun-police/

Marc Gunther's website: https://www.marcgunther.com/

Check out the weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

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S1 Episode 1: The Premise

Season 1 · Episode 1

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 • Duration 01:04:12

To understand Neo-prohibitionism, we need to understand the premise of their arguments. In this episode we talk about the harm principle, and the implications of self-harm. We also analyse the history of prohibition throughout time and answer the question: is prohibitionism limited to only one culture, or is it a universal fallacy?

We close the episode with a Canadian example of how neo-prohibitionists operate.

Act 1: Do you want to live?

Act 2: Recycling old adages

Act 3: The Method

Released on November 15, 2023

More resources of the Fun Police campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/fun-police/

Check out the weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

Check out Consumer Choice Podcast (formerly Consumer Choice Radio): https://consumerchoicecenter.org/radio/

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Season 1 Trailer

Season 1

Monday, October 30, 2023 • Duration 01:34

The official trailer for the Fun Police 5-part podcast series, a Consumer Choice Center original podcast. Episode one dropping November 15, 2023. New episodes week by week.

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S2 Episode 4: Loose ends

Season 2 · Episode 4

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 • Duration 25:59

In this season finale, Movendi International makes a comeback. UNODC and Movendi collaborate on global health policy, and it's all a bit odd. Also, we talk to an infant feeding expert who leads us down the path of the WHO's weird obsession with infant formula.

Act 1: Listen first

Act 2: Magic formula

Act 3: Conclusion

Released on January 21, 2024.

More resources of the Fun Police campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/fun-police/

Check out the weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

Check out Consumer Choice Podcast (formerly Consumer Choice Radio): https://consumerchoicecenter.org/radio/

Fun Police is a Consumer Choice Center original podcast. This episode was written and researched by Bill Wirtz. Editing by Yaël Ossowski and Bill Wirtz.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S2 Episode 3: Risky science

Season 2 · Episode 3

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 • Duration 58:00

In this third episode, we look at the role of international institutions when it comes to litigation. IARC, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, uses a method of analysing hazard, not risk, opening up companies to expensive litigation. This appears to be used as a method to impose quasi bans.

Act 1: Precaution

Act 2: Lawyer up

Act 3: Conflicts of interest

Released on January 14, 2024.

More resources of the Fun Police campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/fun-police/

Check out the weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

Check out Consumer Choice Podcast (formerly Consumer Choice Radio): https://consumerchoicecenter.org/radio/

Fun Police is a Consumer Choice Center original podcast. This episode was written and researched by Bill Wirtz. Editing by Yaël Ossowski and Bill Wirtz.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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S2 Episode 2: When global health gets a baton

Season 2 · Episode 2

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 • Duration 35:41

In this season of the Fun Police podcast, we are looking at the role of international institutions in the propagation of misinformation and how prohibitionists are using them to further their goals.

In this episode: the dirty on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its Conference of the Parties (COP), the World Health Organization's treaty organ that continues to deny the science on harm reduction and the usefulness of nicotine alternatives in getting people to quit smoking.

We uncover the NGOs and partner groups of the FCTC that muddy the conference and aim to disparage anyone who dares ask a question or introduce some nuance.

Featuring an interview with investigative journalist and congressional candidate Drew Johnson (@DrewForNevada), who has some experience in getting kicked out of multiple FCTC conferences over the years and has decided to run for Congress to push for government transparency and accountability.

Act 1: Experts

Act 2: The illusion of consensus

Act 3: False prophets

Released on February 7, 2024.

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More resources of the Fun Police campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/fun-police/

Check out the weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

S2 Episode 1: Mistakes were made

Season 2 · Episode 1

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 • Duration 50:08

In this season of the Fun Police podcast, we are looking at the role of international institutions in the propagation of misinformation and how prohibitionists are using them to further their goals.

In this first episode: the World Health Organisation, and its role in global health policy.

Act 1: WHO got it wrong

Act 2: Negative impacts

Act 3: WHO cares

Released on January 31, 2024.

More resources of the Fun Police campaign: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/fun-police/

Check out the weekly podcast ConsEUmer: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/conseumer/

Check out Consumer Choice Podcast (formerly Consumer Choice Radio): https://consumerchoicecenter.org/radio/

Fun Police is a Consumer Choice Center original podcast. This episode was written and researched by Bill Wirtz. Editing by Yaël Ossowski and Bill Wirtz.

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