Ep 78 | You Can't Undo a Hanging | Guest: Jason Buttrill
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
California's death row inmates got a reprieve this week from Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, who issued a moratorium on executions. It's kicked the issue of the death penalty back into the national spotlight, so Heaton brings on Jason Buttrill to discuss its efficacy and morality.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and the program you're listening to |
| 0:17.0 | is brought to you by The Seeing Eye Horse Foundation. |
| 0:21.0 | A 401c3PO dedicated to providing the blind with guide horses to help |
| 0:25.6 | them navigate life. |
| 0:28.3 | You probably know that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was confined to a wheelchair due to polio. |
| 0:33.7 | And later, so was most of his cabinet by law. |
| 0:36.9 | But did you know that Calvin Coolidge was blind for most of his first term? |
| 0:40.1 | It's true. |
| 0:41.1 | President Coolidge, better known as The Sundance Kid, was stricken temporarily |
| 0:45.6 | blind by eye gout from 1921 to 1918. |
| 0:50.1 | Yet through the use of a trustee seinging eyehorse, he was able to manage his duties as |
| 0:54.7 | Commander-in-Chief with minimal assistance. |
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| 1:40.0 | A little bit embarrassing to be honest with you but do you think it's important |
| 1:44.7 | to get in front of the narrative and kind of frame this before I get indicted and |
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