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The Political Orphanage

Ep. 4 | Amazon Should Build Its Own City | Guest: Jim Swift

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Politics, Comedy, News

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Amazon Should Build Its Own City, with guest Jim Swift

Amazon finally picks two overwhelmingly unsurprising locations for its HQ, and Heaton talks to The Weekly Standard's Jim Swift about the perils of corporate cronyism. Plus:, "Naughty Parts from Around the World": a segment devoted entirely to scandals and sex. 

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0:00.0

You're listening to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I am your

0:19.3

eponymous host Andrew Heaton and we're gonna have to have some fun today. We've got a forthcoming

0:24.6

segment, a new segment that deals with some racy stuff. It's safe for work. However,

0:30.2

racier than what I've been doing previously. And I think you can enjoy it.

0:33.0

We also got special guest Jim Swift on.

0:35.0

We're going to talk about Amazon and corporate cronyism

0:38.0

and have a lot of fun there.

0:40.0

But before we do that, I do want to give a shout out to our sponsors.

0:44.1

You know when you're driving your family to dinner

0:46.4

and Junior wants Italian food, but your daughter wants foe,

0:49.3

and then the other daughter says it's pha,

0:51.0

and pretty soon they're fighting,

0:52.2

and you have no idea if it's pha or foe, or even what country it's fromah and pretty soon they're fighting and you have no idea if it's

0:53.1

fah or foe or even what country it's from but Grandpa he's in the back he chimes in and he

0:56.5

says it's fah but then he also says some inappropriate racial epithets and that

1:00.1

makes you very uncomfortable but then he was in a POW camp so you don't really feel like

1:03.6

you're in a position to call him out on it. But that doesn't stop Junior from launching into

1:07.1

him and now he's fighting with Grandpa and your daughter's crying and your other

1:10.2

daughters crying and everybody's just screaming.

1:13.0

Well it's times like that you should take a deep breath and say,

1:16.0

what if we all just ate supper at a diner where the waitress rides a horse?

1:20.0

Well that's snuffies, just off Route 44. You can order the eggs however you like, get

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