Ep. 54 | Is "South Park" Postmodern? | Guest: Nick Gillespie
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What is Postmodernism and why do so many people loathe it? Reason's Nick Gillespie joins Heaton to explain what postmodernism is, where it's useful and when it's asinine, and the many instances where postmodernism has spread through American culture.
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to. Hello and welcome to something's off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host Steve Martin's |
| 0:20.6 | Banjo and today I will be talking about postmodernism. |
| 0:24.8 | What is it? |
| 0:25.8 | Should we love it, fear it? |
| 0:27.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:28.8 | We're going to talk to Nick Gillespie about that momentarily. |
| 0:30.8 | But before we do that, I do need to give a shout out to today's sponsor. |
| 0:35.0 | Something's Off with Andrew Heaton is brought to you by the Stop Sloth Abuse Council. |
| 0:41.0 | Nobody wants to encourage sloth abuse. |
| 0:43.0 | When I drive through alleys late at night and see emaciated street sloths poking around garbage cans for scraps, |
| 0:50.0 | I think, oh, that's a shame. |
| 0:52.0 | Why do I hang out in alleys late at night? Don't worry about it. I think, oh, that's a shame. |
| 0:52.7 | Why do I hang out in alleys late a night? |
| 0:54.4 | Don't worry about it. |
| 0:55.2 | But here's my point. |
| 0:56.4 | You might be encouraging street sloths |
| 0:58.2 | without even realizing that you're doing it. |
| 1:00.3 | And that's a problem for them and for humans. Did you know that most cases of sloth rabies aren't from wild sloths? |
| 1:06.0 | They're from domestic sloths who get abandoned by their owners and then breed. |
| 1:11.0 | Well, there is something you can do to stop that. |
| 1:14.0 | Spay or neuter your pet sloth, even if you never abandon that sloth, it might get out one evening |
| 1:20.2 | and then mate with a feral neighborhood sloth producing a litter of street sloths. |
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