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The Political Orphanage

Ep. 39 | The Secret Conservative Hollywood Speakeasy | Guest: Michael Loftus

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Politics, Comedy, News

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Michael Loftus has written for "Anger Management" with Charlie Sheen and "Kevin Can Wait" on CBS. He's also the former host of the conservative political satire show "The Flipside". He joins Heaton to talk about working in Hollywood as a conservative, and how he hopes the next few years will shake out culturally.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host, The Shadow.

0:16.0

And today I'm going to talk to Michael Loftus. He is a comedian. He is a conservative and he lives in Hollywood.

0:24.0

I don't understand how that works at all.

0:26.0

I would have assumed they would have zoned him away by now,

0:28.0

so I'm curious to talk to him about what his experience has been like

0:31.0

and a number of other pertinent comedy and political questions.

0:35.4

But before we do that, we do need to give a shout out to today's sponsor and pay those bills.

0:40.0

Something's off with Andrew Heaton is brought to you by Uncle Milton's crab dip with caffeine in it.

0:46.8

Throughout Colombia, South America, for centuries people have gone to the marketplace.

0:52.2

It is here that they trade. It is here that they buy their

0:56.2

crabs. Crabs caught by men like Juan Valdez. He catches the crabs by hand, then dries them carefully in the sun.

1:05.0

The crabs are prepared for market, as it has been for centuries,

1:09.0

because for Colombia's, their caffeinated mountain crabs are more than just the richest tasting crabs in the world.

1:15.0

It is a national heritage.

1:18.0

You may ask, Colombia, isn't that where they grow cocaine?

1:25.0

Not anymore.

1:27.0

Years ago, narcoed traffickers and drug lords

1:30.0

tried to force men like Juan Valdez off their land to grow cocaine there, but in came Uncle Milton's.

1:37.0

Uncle Milton's ethically sources all of its mountain crabs and pays the villagers who catch them at fair wage,

1:42.6

so they have no reason to join the lucrative cocaine trade.

1:45.6

Also, it arms them.

1:48.6

Now men like Juan are heavily armed,

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