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The Political Orphanage

Ep 90 | Donkeyball and Competitive Russian Slapfighting—Friday Release Valve / Guest: Turner Sparks

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Comedy, News, Politics

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Turner Sparks climbs aboard the podcast to discuss the week's more obscure headlines, from calls in Ireland to use the army to fight deer overpopulation, to a Supreme Court decision over hoverboard moose hunting, to Siberan slap fights.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello and I'm your host Andrew Heaton and I really appreciate how well you've been tending your yard.

0:23.2

It looks fantastic.

0:24.4

The whole neighborhood's been talking.

0:26.3

Good job you.

0:27.3

And welcome to a Friday release valve episode.

0:29.9

This is when I bring in one of my funny friends

0:31.6

and we just kick around amusing headlines for

0:34.0

our own amusement.

0:35.2

We are not going to make any attempt to be substantive or thoughtful at any point.

0:38.5

This is for you to enjoy your drive home on your Friday commute without having to think. So we will do that in a

0:45.8

minute. And also I want to give a special shout out to listeners in Wilmington

0:50.0

Delaware. This week one of my one of the people of the people works here, Chris, showed me how I could look at where people are downloading this and I become fascinated. So shout out to Wilmington because you guys are outpacing Los Angeles. You would think I'd have more listeners in Los Angeles than Wilmington, Delaware,

1:05.1

given that Los Angeles is far better. But apparently, proportionally, Wilmington, Delaware

1:09.8

is a greatly smarter place than Los Angeles. So I used to think of Delaware. a great

1:13.4

I used to think of Delaware as just three counties pretending to be a state in order to avoid

1:17.6

taxes. No more. I am now pro-delaware. I thank you for listening

1:21.6

Wilmington.

1:23.0

Regardless, we do have to pay those bills, don't we?

1:27.0

And that means a word from our sponsor.

1:31.0

Something's off with Andrew Heaton is brought to you by The Unexpected

1:35.6

Log.

1:36.6

It's like a trick candle for your fireplace.

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