Well, the way you laid it out, it was 12 Hot top talk issues to 28 political. That's about 43% Hot talk... but you listed...
THESE TOPICS as Hot Talk?
H Culture
H Metaphysics
H Free Minds TV's Nick Joins the Show
H Cowardly Journalists
H The misuse of "pedophile".
H Animals and Children
H 10 things to not do on a first date.
H Bizarre Dating Story
H Raw Deal
H Nuclear Power
H Liquid Petroleum
H Hemp Fuel
These are ISSUES oriented topics... Even Bill O'Reilly, Medved, Savage... Limbaugh... etc etc... They do ISSUES talk. That's what a Political talk show DOES to add some salt and pepper interest...
Out of those above issues...
I'd call THESE TWO hot talk.
H 10 things to not do on a first date.
H Bizarre Dating Story
2 out of 28 is about 7% Hot Talk. That's probably about accurate.
I'd go ahead and say 10% Hot Talk, 25% Issues, and about 75% politics...