Ep 82 | The President as Father, Warrior, Chaplain, Celebrity, Lover ... | Guest: Rob Montz
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Documentary filmmaker Rob Montz joins Heaton to discuss how the American presidency has expanded in power and religious adulation and the huge downside to electing messiahs instead of bureaucrats.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to something's Off with Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:14.0 | I am indubitably your host, Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:17.5 | And the program is brought to you by The Jumbo elevator by Up Machines Unlimited, and I'll tell you why. |
| 0:26.0 | A Jumbo elevator is a unisex elevator. |
| 0:30.0 | If you're like most Americans, your office has two sets of elevators, one for the gents and one for the ladies. |
| 0:38.0 | Male elevators move a lot faster and have shorter lines, but female elevators are a lot cleaner, and women can go in together |
| 0:45.2 | and nobody thinks it's weird. |
| 0:47.3 | The reason for that is, of course, because we live in the Me Too era. |
| 0:51.8 | I sure don't want to smoosh myself into an elevator full of female colleagues, |
| 0:55.6 | no sir, not one of those tiny elevators where you don't have any room. |
| 0:59.2 | There you are pressed up against a bunch of lady co-workers so tight you can barely drop a half dollar. |
| 1:04.8 | In that kind of packed environment, a female co-worker might honestly mistake fumbling around |
| 1:09.6 | for your pocket for car keys is something untoward. And now HR has to get involved and you get fired. |
| 1:17.0 | And pretty soon you're in a sleeping bag beneath an overpass drinking liquor out of a plastic jug. |
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| 1:57.1 | upwardly mobile. And now it's time for Heaton reviews where I rank things along arbitrary lines that pertain directly to me. |
| 2:07.0 | Today, fictional Presidents of the United States, according to who I would most want to give the eulogy at my funeral. |
| 2:15.0 | Number six, Frank Underwood from House of Cards. |
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