Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton and I think you're a terrific driver.

I don't care what the cops say.

You and I know better than them.

And you guys, I am so excited to bring on my guest today.

I'm going to do it here a little bit after the advertisement, but I'm bringing on

PJ O'Rourke, who is my personal hero.

I literally have a framed picture of this man on set behind me right now.

He's one of three people that I've met over the course of my career that I have embarrassingly

visibly started shaking when I encountered them because I am so impressed by the

tenacity of this man's wit and the depth of his analysis.

There aren't very many people on the planet that are as funny and

smart as the guy that we're going to talk to here a little bit. And so I am thrilled. He is, I think,

a modern day H.L. Lincoln. And in fact, Cato, the Kato Institute agrees with me because he is the H.L.

Minkin fellow. And so a fantastic person to bring on. And something of a kick start in my life

because I had got back from Edinburgh from getting my master's

degree. I was back in DC and I stumbled upon the book Parliament of Horrors and it by him by the way and it had a profound impact on me both in terms of how I interpret politics but it had two cascading effects.

One I went oh you don't have to be a Democrat to be funny. I just sort of assumed that was a rule and

here's this guy openly flouting that. And then the second thing is I went, oh I

could combine politics with humor. That had not occurred to me and that's basically my career at this point.

So what I'm saying is, if I'm Spider-Man, then PJ O'work is Uncle Ben.

Now my producer reminded me when I came up with this analogy this morning

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