Cheney Shoots His Friend (2006) [[Archive Episode]]
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Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Today we're bringing you a favorite episode from the archives!
It’s February 20th. This day in 2006, the news — and the jokes — are swirling about the incident that took place earlier in the month, when Vice President Dick Cheney shot his hunting partner Harry Whittington on a Texas ranch.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss why it took so long for the news of the incident to come out, why Whittington apologized to Cheney at a press conference — and why it took so long for this podcast to talk about this moment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, Jody here. |
| 0:00.9 | A quick word before we bring you a favorite episode from the archives. |
| 0:04.0 | We are on a little bit of a holiday break, but we will be back next episode with some new stuff |
| 0:08.2 | as we launch into 2025. |
| 0:10.5 | But usually around this time, we think of some episodes that make sense for the end of the year |
| 0:14.6 | or some of our favorite episodes from the year. |
| 0:17.1 | As I was looking into what episode to rerun, I got my Spotify wrapped this year, where if you host a podcast and you put it on Spotify, they send you some information about what people listen to, where people are listening from. It's really nice to get some information about all of you out there who are listening to the show. And I was so proud to see that the most listened to episode, at least on Spotify, was Dick Cheney |
| 0:39.3 | shoots his friend in the face. The episode we did back in February about the time that |
| 0:43.9 | Vice President Dick Cheney was hunting and he got into an accident and shot his friend in the |
| 0:48.3 | face. This day, listeners, I am so proud of you for making that the top of our Spotify |
| 0:53.1 | wrapped charts. |
| 0:55.9 | And so why not? |
| 0:58.6 | Let's rerun that episode, clearly a crowd favorite. |
| 1:00.7 | Take a listen and I'll see you soon. |
| 1:08.1 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia. |
| 1:09.9 | My name is Jody Avergan. This day, February 20th, 2006, |
| 1:15.9 | and let me just say to you, listeners, if you heard a few episodes ago, I bemoaned the fact that |
| 1:20.7 | we had once again missed the date on which Vice President Dick Cheney shot a business |
| 1:25.9 | associate in the face while hunting and we said, |
| 1:28.6 | God, we got to find a way to do that story. |
| 1:30.2 | We got to find a way. |
| 1:31.0 | And we did not wait a whole year to do it. |
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