Ep 97 | Is Batman Libertarian? — Alienating the Audience | Guest: Megan Sass
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Comedian and comic book guru Megan Sass joins Heaton on "Alienating the Audience" to talk about superhero politics. How do Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman play out ideologically?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:15.2 | You know what I like about you. |
| 0:16.7 | You know how to appropriately use the word whom? |
| 0:20.4 | I don't know how to do that. |
| 0:21.2 | I just say whom when I'm trying to impress people. I think you actually know how to do that I just say whom when I'm trying to impress people I think you actually know how to do that so well done there one of the many reasons we're friends and the program you're listening to |
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| 0:40.0 | You live out on the prairie, miles from a big city, |
| 0:43.4 | and it takes a lot of electricity to run your house, |
| 0:46.0 | what with all of Grandma's equipment. |
| 0:48.2 | But that's okay. |
| 0:49.3 | You love her and you want her to be comfortable in your guest room. You've really connected over the last two years and a way you didn't even |
| 0:56.1 | when you were a kid because now your family and adults you can reminisce but also |
| 1:01.7 | you can rely on her for advice, just as she relies on you for her heart monitor and her |
| 1:06.4 | iron lung, both of which require electricity to operate. |
| 1:12.0 | "'Bellay,' she says, I heard the next town over is still out of electricity from that thunderstorm. |
| 1:18.8 | In the city west are here, is still lights out from some other meteorological phenomenon. |
| 1:23.0 | Sure, Grandma, you say. |
| 1:25.0 | We have lots of meteorological phenomena in this state. |
| 1:27.5 | What's your point? |
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