Ep 123 | Alienating the Audience: Game of Thrones | Guest: Grant Carlisle
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
It's time for an industrial helping of high-grade nerd chat about Game of Thrones. Heaton talks to policy wonk and lifelong nerd Grant Carlisle about the deeper meaning of George R. R. Martin's books and HBO series.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and if the multiverse theory is correct |
| 0:17.3 | There is a world in which you are Andrew Heaton think about that next time you're high. |
| 0:23.0 | Guys, we're going to do another installment of alienating the audience today |
| 0:29.4 | where I do my darndest to shake you loose from the program with an unrelenting torrent of nerd talk. |
| 0:37.9 | And today that nerd talk is going to be focused on Game of Thrones. |
| 0:41.8 | So I'm warning you now, this episode is chock full of spoilers. |
| 0:46.2 | Right out the gate. |
| 0:47.4 | If you are not up to date on Game of Thrones, |
| 0:49.6 | turn off this podcast. |
| 0:51.1 | Take three days off work. |
| 0:52.1 | I give you permission. |
| 0:53.0 | Catch up and then jump back on board. |
| 0:56.0 | And while you're taking three days off, why not eat some delicious breakfast |
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| 1:12.0 | You're an alien botanist with a heart-shaped head, a long neck, and a glowing finger, |
| 1:19.0 | and you're on earth collecting plant samples with your alien buddies. |
| 1:22.0 | But as you're grabbing some interesting specimens of |
| 1:24.8 | Parthinocyst Vite, something horrible happens. The American federal government shows up. |
| 1:31.7 | Freeze aliens, it's ice! shouts one of them. |
| 1:34.0 | Get in the van! |
| 1:35.0 | We're taking you back to Mexico. |
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