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The Political Orphanage

Ep. 13 | Designer Babies and Animal News | Guest: J. W. Crump

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Politics, Comedy, News

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Heaton and comedian / amateur bioethicists J. W. Crump discuss the world's first gene-edited babies, and if it's a good idea to fiddle with the human genome to give kids purple eyes and more taste buds. Plus Animal News, including a giant cow and the Queen of England.

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You're listening to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm Andrew Heaton filling in.

0:20.6

Today's going to be a cool program.

0:22.6

We're going to do Animal News, this time involving Queen Elizabeth and unrelated to her, a giant

0:27.8

cow.

0:28.8

We're also going to cover designer babies with my guest J.W. Crump, who will join me in a moment, which that there is either

0:35.2

going to be an incredibly cool, optimistic look at the future and what might happen to humanity

0:41.8

or a terrifying cold dark black mirror type

0:46.3

look at what we might be going down but it'll be an interesting conversation

0:49.6

either way we're going to get into some of the science and ethics of it. Also, before we move on, please remember to subscribe to the podcast and rate and review it while you're there.

0:58.0

Monday, this upcoming Monday, I'm going to respond to some of these reviews that we're getting on iTunes.

1:02.9

So get your praise and or your jabs in this weekend.

1:07.3

And I just checked today with, on the iTunes site, something's off with Andrew Heaton is now at

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number 87 on iTunes news and

1:13.7

politics were in the top 100 now the important thing is regardless that

1:17.8

Lawrence O'Donnell is number 92 wallowing at number 92 behind me. Democracy now, that podcast is now within

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spinning distance at 84 in Rush Limbaugh is within Frisbee distance at 78.

1:29.9

I am you know taking back pills and things to try and catch up the distance with him, but I need your help to outpace these guys.

1:36.5

So if you would, you know, subscribe review all of that stuff.

1:41.5

Now, a word from our sponsors. Something's all with Andrew Heaton is

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brought to you by Snuffies off Route 44. Happy holidays from Snuffies, an American diner that believes

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1:55.1

goodness of a weight staff that rides horses through the diner.

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