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The Political Orphanage

Ep. 11 | Why Are We in Yemen and Where Is It | Guest: Brian Brushwood

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Politics, Comedy, News

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Magician and professional fire-eater Brian Brushwood rejoins Heaton to discuss a how unlikely Senate allies might actually balance out war powers and get us out of Yemen. PLUS an excerpt of "Moby Dick" (as written by Bernie Sanders) and an interview with the owner of Nick's Horseless Diner.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host

0:19.5

Something's Off and it should be a really interesting podcast today I'll tell you why.

0:24.3

My friend Brian Brushwood, a rogue magician and podcaster and everything else, has come back

0:31.1

to talk with me about a really interesting issue involving

0:35.0

Yemen and Saudi Arabia and several of you reached out after he came on last week and said

0:40.1

that you found him delightful and you wanted to get your foreign policy opinions from a magician, as do I.

0:45.8

So we're going to talk about that because something really interesting is winding its way through the

0:49.2

Senate right now. It's going to be up in a day or two, but basically the Senate might declare a war unconstitutional

0:55.5

and that's a big deal in terms of what it means for the government and also what it

0:59.8

means for us helping bombs fall on the Middle East. We're also today going to skip

1:05.4

headlines. Now this is the first time I've done this. We're going to do something

1:10.3

different I should say. I don't want to get too formulaic. I enjoy

1:14.5

doing the headlines. I really like finding weird stories for you guys and

1:17.9

then commenting on it. I'm not going to stop doing that but I want to try

1:20.2

something different and it might go completely off the rails. It might be terrible.

1:24.9

I don't know. But I think if we're going to make this work, I have to have a really high embarrassment

1:28.8

threshold. So we'll see and it should be interesting and on top of everything else

1:35.2

Several of you wrote to me last week wanting to know what the deal was with my sponsor Nick's

1:39.8

horseless diner we know this this week we have a different sponsor.

1:43.7

I'm going to get to that in a moment, but we've previously had Snuffies,

1:46.6

and we've also had Nick's Horseless Diner.

1:49.7

It's weird enough, and I agree with you, that I have talked to Nick, and he's going to be joining me on briefly of Nick's horseless diner tell me why he apparently

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