Ep. 1 | Censorship in China | Guest: Turner Sparks
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In China, you submit your jokes to the government and the commies edit them for you. International comedian Turner Sparks joins to talk about being funny in an authoritarian regime. Plus, find out about Holographic Reagan and how Heaton's cryptocurrency portfolio is doing in "Tech News."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I am Andrew Heaton and |
| 0:19.6 | you're joining me for the inaugural show. That means that if you've got a bottle of champagne you should |
| 0:25.3 | break it over your iPod or car or digital record player, |
| 0:32.8 | whatever you're listening to this on, |
| 0:34.4 | you should break champagne over it. |
| 0:36.4 | This is going to be a fun show. |
| 0:37.6 | Here in a minute, I'm going to bring on international comedian Turner Sparks, |
| 0:40.4 | and we're going to talk about comedy in China and censorship and a few other things |
| 0:45.2 | maybe the alt middle if we have time for it. |
| 0:48.0 | We're going to do some headlines. |
| 0:49.2 | We're going to do some cryptocurrency news because that's now a thing. We're going to talk about that. |
| 0:54.5 | And regarding the headlines, once we get in there, I know that we're all really |
| 0:58.0 | excited to go back past the midterms to hating each other, but I was thinking maybe we could do a little bit |
| 1:04.0 | of a palate cleanser and just not deal with all of that bile. |
| 1:07.8 | But I promise eventually we'll get into it. |
| 1:10.1 | But before we do that, we are going to have to go to our sponsor, so I would like to say a big thank you to Snuffies off Route 44. |
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| 1:34.9 | scrambled eggs and freshly squeezed Florida orange juice from a man wearing an apron seated on |
| 1:39.8 | top of a horse. If you've ever been to Sonic and you've seen one of those high school cheerleaders delivering |
| 1:44.2 | maults and roller skates and you thought, wow that's impressive, well you will be filled with |
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