Ep. 55 | The Super Model Amusement Park | Guest: Jimmy Failla
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In a Friday grab bag episode, comedian Jimmy Failla comes on to suss out headlines with Heaton. Including: why Thai parliament candidates are changing their names; the world's most conscientious burglar, the latest Burger King lawsuit; and why you can legally watch erotic films on library computers in Chicago.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and today gang we're going to do something different than what we normally do. |
| 0:19.0 | What I've been doing on Fridays is interviewing authors for Thinky Fun Time and talking properly for an adult |
| 0:25.8 | about a proper adult conversation for an hour-plus substantive topic. |
| 0:30.2 | But I did that yesterday with Dr. Nick Gillespie when we talked about postmodernism. |
| 0:34.0 | So today, we're going to just do one big old release valve here at the end of the week. |
| 0:40.0 | There's not going to be a specific theme point or substance to it. I have just |
| 0:45.0 | invited on my friend and former cab driver and very good stand-up comedian Jimmy |
| 0:49.8 | Phela to come on and discuss headlines with me. |
| 0:52.6 | So if you've listened to the program previously when I've covered headlines, |
| 0:55.2 | we're going to kind of expand this and bring on a comedian to do it with me. |
| 0:58.4 | There's no purpose, there's no theme, there's no deeper understanding. |
| 1:01.2 | It's just us blowing off steam on a Friday talking |
| 1:03.7 | nonsense I do want to let you know because I've I've looked at the headlines in |
| 1:07.8 | advance I'm gonna I'm gonna categorize it as PG-13 normally we're |
| 1:12.2 | operating at a PG-level this is PG-13 so it's not bad but if you've got |
| 1:16.0 | like a 10-year-old maybe maybe listen to it in advance just want to warn you for the |
| 1:21.1 | parents that are in the car doing a commute. |
| 1:24.0 | Let me know what you think about it, because I do check my email, I do look at tweets, |
| 1:28.0 | if it works and you think this is funny, I actually prefer that you would just do funny stuff on Fridays, |
| 1:32.0 | then we'll keep doing it. |
| 1:33.4 | If it doesn't work, I will be forced to murder my friend Jimmy Phela, and I might even murder |
| 1:40.2 | Jimmy Fallon too if I catch dyslexia. But before we do any of that, regardless of how |
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