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The Political Orphanage

Ep. 16 | Are British people human? How do they think? | Guest: Zoe Samuel

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Politics, Comedy, News

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Comedy writer and verified British person Zoe Samuel joins Heaton to talk about English politics, political mindsets, and the Prime Minister's Questions. Heaton explains why Betty White should be Queen of America. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:21.0

And today we're going to do something interesting.

0:23.4

We're going to jump the pond and get into British politics,

0:27.0

but specifically we're going to get into not what British people are voting on,

0:31.6

not what the policies are, but how British people think, because

0:35.8

British people too are human.

0:38.3

And I am curious as to how they think.

0:40.2

And I'm curious as to how we think in general. I am I think most of the conversation in media right now and particularly in political media sort of revolves around the idea that my team is a good team the other team is dumb and just finding ways to paraphrase that

0:54.4

over and over ad nauseum and I find that kind of exhausting I think it's a lot more

0:57.7

interesting to get into people's mindsets of how they think about things and so

1:01.9

I have cornered an actual English person

1:04.8

and I am bringing them on the show

1:06.2

so that we can pepper them with questions

1:07.5

about how British people think.

1:09.4

And before we do that, as a tip of the hat

1:11.8

to Zoe who will be joining me in a moment we will do

1:13.8

some news from Britain and then afterwards I'm going to respond personally to

1:18.1

an email I got yesterday regarding Star Trek which was the Friday episode we

1:22.0

had and I'll do that at the end of the episode.

1:24.0

But first, I really should give a shout out to our sponsor.

1:29.6

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1:35.1

there amongst that field of glittering stars is the moon, resplendent and light and you

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