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The Political Orphanage

Ep 108 | Am I Castrating Libertarians? | Guest: Gene Epstein

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Comedy, News, Politics

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Gene Epstein is the director and moderator of the New York-based debate society the Soho Forum and formerly the economics editor at Barron's. He's also Heaton's mentor in economics. He comes on the program to chastise Heaton for his ideological foibles, then to talk about why the Federal Reserve Board is horrible and we should scrap it entirely.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and I really like the

0:16.7

shark fins you attach to your car. It looks very snazzy. Well done.

0:22.0

Something's Off with Andrew Heaton is brought to you by carbonated

0:25.9

scotch from Glen Kevin Distillery. You're a Starfleet engineer and you're Scottish through and through.

0:34.8

Born in Lithco and raised in Aberdeen,

0:37.1

you're so Scottish that you brought your bagpipes

0:39.6

with you onto the Starship Enterprise.

0:41.9

Sometimes you do a caber toss in the engine room with old

0:45.2

warp coils. You once made haggis out of a dribble. That's how friggin Scottish you are.

0:53.0

But today things don't look so bony.

0:56.0

In fact, they're downright grim.

0:59.0

The ship has taken a pummeling from a dangerous unknown species that looks pretty much like humans only

1:05.1

with weird eyebrows in a sense of fashion largely dependent on aluminum foil.

1:09.2

The warp core has blown a fuse, you're dead in space, a sitting target, and you hear a squawk over the

1:15.9

intercom.

1:16.9

Scotty, it's the captain.

1:19.9

I need to fix those engines, so we can warp out.

1:23.0

Not to worry, Captain, I'll keep the old girl together.

1:26.0

Inson McNeil swap out the Delithia Mimiograph and be quick about it.

1:29.8

Inson McNeil, who is wearing a red shirt and who you just met today and have no real emotional

1:36.4

attachment to, that guy nods and zips off towards the nearest Delithium

1:41.0

mammograph while you tighten the engine with a

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