Ep 85 | The Very Last Blockbuster — Friday Release Valve | Guest: Remy Munasifi
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Remy, musical comedian and Reason heartthrob, joins Heaton to work through the week's more obscure headlines, including alligators on ketamine, communism setting the laws of reincarnation, and Australia's onerous disco ball laws.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's off with Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host Kate Blanchett. |
| 0:17.0 | And today we're going to do a Friday release valve episode. |
| 0:20.0 | That means I'm bringing on a funny person to discuss some of the headlines that I believe |
| 0:24.6 | were left out of the news cycle this week and we will at no point endeavor to be even remotely |
| 0:29.7 | substantive. |
| 0:30.7 | So tuck in on your ride home from work to home to have your adult beverage of choice and know that we will probably not elevate discourse or your level of intelligence at any point during this particular episode, but we'll have a good time. |
| 0:43.7 | But regardless of that, we do have to pay those bills, don't we? |
| 0:46.7 | And that means a word from our sponsor. |
| 0:48.6 | Something's Off with Andrew Heaton is brought to you by Jumbo elevators, proudly making office elevators capable of lifting up to 480 people per load. |
| 0:59.2 | If you're like most people, |
| 1:00.7 | one of the great pleasures in life is taking a good scenic elevator ride. |
| 1:05.4 | Taking an elevator ride through a foreign culture doesn't just give you a new destination |
| 1:08.9 | to explore, it gives you a new vantage point from which to observe your own native land. |
| 1:14.0 | I've met some of my closest friends on elevators, and a few romances to boot. |
| 1:19.8 | Time was, you weren't considered a true gentleman unless you'd elevated your way through Europe. |
| 1:25.0 | But what happens if you love elevator excursions, but suffer from motion sickness? |
| 1:30.0 | Well, you can take an endless supply of Dramamine suppository or maybe stand in the elevator |
| 1:36.5 | holding a bucket. |
| 1:37.5 | But is that how you want to spend your vacation? |
| 1:39.7 | Probably not. |
| 1:41.2 | That's why Jumbo elevators now makes the stationary elevator for travelers who |
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