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The Political Orphanage

Ep. 15 | Why George HW Bush Is Underrated

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Politics, Comedy, News

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In his first solo show, Heaton gives a biography of the late George H. W. Bush, and why he's underrated as a president. Plus, Heaton responds to listener reviews.

Transcript

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You're listening to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I am he. Andrew Heaton and today you and I need to talk about George Herbert Walker Bush

0:24.7

who died over the weekend and I think it's deserving of some chat and is

0:29.7

overlooked and I'm going to try and rectify that as best I can.

0:32.8

But before we do that, we are going to cover some headlines,

0:35.9

and I'm going to go over reviews.

0:37.6

I promised last week that I was going to read some of the reviews

0:40.2

that I got on iTunes, and I've been soliciting them,

0:42.3

and indeed I will cover them

0:43.4

but before we do any of that I do need to pay the bills which is why we're going to

0:47.2

give a shout out to our sponsor. The Carve Reagan's face into the moon using a giant laser foundation who are sponsoring the

0:54.9

shows this week. Now I haven't been to Mount Rushmore but I'll tell you what I

0:58.1

think it's probably pathetic. For one thing Mount Rushmore is only visible to people inside of the United States.

1:04.4

And frankly, we can do better than that.

1:07.0

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1:12.2

an authoritarian despot.

1:14.0

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building a military-grade laser so powerful it would make James Bond

1:28.0

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1:32.0

Only a fraction go to administrative overhead.

1:34.4

95 cents of every dollar you pledge

1:36.2

goes straight to building a colossal laser,

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