Ep 105 | Why Robots Will Never Replace Comedians — Friday Release Valve | Guest: Andrea Jones-Rooy
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Back by popular acclaim, Andrea Jones-Rooy joins Heaton to sift through the week's better headlines, from Pennsylvania's new state amphibian, to dog catchers in tanks, to the Japanese version of "Breaking Bad." Plus, why comedians don't need to worry about getting replaced by robots anytime soon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host |
| 0:16.0 | Andrew Heaton and your tomatoes are delicious. I mean they're always good |
| 0:21.5 | homegrown but really these are just I you knocked them out of the park I can't even go to the grocery store anymore |
| 0:26.2 | In fact I will look at it with unyielding unwavering contempt when I see their lesser tomatoes compared to your tomatoes. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey, it's Friday. |
| 0:35.0 | The week is done, at least the work week part of the week, |
| 0:38.0 | and so that means we're going to do a Friday release valve. |
| 0:41.0 | If you're new to the program, Friday release valve is where we drop any pretense of trying to be |
| 0:45.2 | thoughtful or substantive. We did that in spades the the earlier part of the week so |
| 0:50.1 | now we're basically just doing a candy bar for your commute home when you go off to have |
| 0:56.0 | more fun this weekend. |
| 0:57.1 | And I'll bring on my guest in a minute. |
| 0:58.9 | She's one of my favorites and will be funny and everything else. |
| 1:01.8 | But before we do that, we always have to pay the bills, |
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| 1:20.0 | The crisp dawn, the orange hats, communing with nature and then subsequently killing it. |
| 1:26.4 | Sometimes you wish the grid would go down so you could hunt all the time, but then you laugh and realize |
| 1:32.0 | that that would be terrible because if the grid went down you couldn't play Buckhunter over at Smoky Joes anymore. |
| 1:37.5 | Or play Duck Hunt, your favorite Nintendo game, which you play on the old TV screen, you tied your dashboard so you can |
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