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The Political Orphanage

Ep 66 | What's More Frightening Than A Nuclear Arms Race? | Guest: Jason Buttrill

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Comedy, News, Politics

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

President Trump is pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Does this mean the Ruskies will start cranking out nukes? What about us? Or the Chinese? Jason Buttrill, Chief Researcher at The Blaze, joins Heaton to explain what we should and should not be worried about.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to something's off with Andrew Heaton. I am your host

0:14.4

Andrew Heaton and today we're going to talk about nukes. If you recall to the

0:20.1

earlier portion of this very month there was a day where on the news people

0:27.0

started saying hey we're going to withdraw from the I. N.F. Treaty it could lead to increases

0:32.4

in nuclear stockpiles.

0:33.7

This is an old Cold War treaty and so we're withdrawing from a Cold War nuclear treaty.

0:38.8

Could be more nukes.

0:39.5

Also, Rob Long tweeted something about Elizabeth Warren saying that she would make a good commander

0:46.3

in chief and that's a pun, but now everybody's angry because it was racist.

0:50.6

And I went, I'm sorry, what was that? And people went, yeah, yeah, yeah, he said,

0:55.0

he said, chief. But see, the thing is because she's, I was like, no, no, no, no, that's, I don't, I don't

0:58.3

remotely care about that. That is so unbelievably asinine. What was the thing about nukes that no one's talking about?

1:04.4

Well, I'm still a little bit worried about that. I'm not entirely sure what's

1:08.2

happening, but I'm going to bring on someone who does know. And so we'll cover that in a minute.

1:13.8

But before we do, we'll do a how-to with Heaton.

1:17.7

I'm going to teach you how to pick a nice bottle of wine.

1:20.8

And before we do any of that, we do have to pay those bills, and that means a word from our sponsors.

1:26.0

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1:49.5

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