Ep. 3 | Ghosts and Creepy Dolls on Paranormal News | Guest: Brian Brushwood
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The most interesting thing about the midterms wasn't Red Team vs. Blue Team, it was state propositions. "Modern Rogue" founder and touring magician Brian Brushwood joins Heaton to talk about gerrymandering, legal weed, minimum wage, and how to properly eat a light bulb. PLUS: ghosts and creepy dolls on Paranormal News.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I think we're getting warmed up and today is going to be a good show as always. |
| 0:22.9 | That's the Andrew Heaton standard. |
| 0:24.4 | I've got Brian Brushwood on and we're going to talk about propositions on the state level |
| 0:28.7 | that happened in the midterm elections. |
| 0:30.8 | Everybody's been paying lots of attention to whether a red team beat blue team or not. |
| 0:35.0 | Interestingly, they both declared victory, as you recall. |
| 0:37.5 | The Republicans and Democrats both won the election, which is impressive. |
| 0:41.1 | Usually it's not everybody winning. But I thought we could jump |
| 0:46.1 | into the propositions because they're ultimately more interesting. That's how the states are |
| 0:50.5 | actually governing themselves and there's some surprising things there. |
| 0:53.0 | And I'm going to talk with Brian Brushwood, a very funny guy, host of the modern rogue and a magician. |
| 0:58.2 | Because I know a lot of you've been thinking, this is great. |
| 1:00.6 | This is, you know, elucidating conversation with thoughtful thoughtful people when are you going to bring on a magician and I am doing that for you now |
| 1:08.3 | And before we do that however I should give out a word to our sponsor. |
| 1:13.0 | Something's Off with Andrew Heaton is brought to you by Snuffies off Route 44. |
| 1:17.8 | You know, these days with the iPads and the iPods and the Tidepods, |
| 1:22.3 | it sure is difficult to spend an evening with your family |
| 1:25.0 | eating a high caloric meal at a low caloric cost. |
| 1:28.0 | Fortunately, there's snuffies. |
| 1:30.0 | From the gleaming silver counterstools |
| 1:32.0 | with their bright red tops |
| 1:33.5 | to the original mid-century linoleum tiles |
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