Grover Norquist Goes to Burning Man
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Burning Man is a giant, 80,000-person party in the desert, complete with a crazy amount of neon, bicycles, and narcotics. Grover Norquist is a powerful Republican, alternately famous or infamous for compelling GOP leaders to pledge never to increase spending, who attends Burning Man every year. He joins the podcast to talk about Burning Man, influential secret societies, his foray into standup comedy, and of course, taxes.
Season 2, Ep 9
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| 0:00.0 | Coming to you from Burning Man, a place so fantastical and crazy that if aliens set down there in the desert, |
| 0:14.8 | no one would notice, including the aliens, |
| 0:18.1 | who would in short order be too drunk and high to drive a UFO, but would try anyway, and would accidentally go back in time and crash in Roswell. |
| 0:27.0 | It's the political orphanage, a podcast for thoughtful folks who don't want to be on either side of the two big teams |
| 0:34.0 | but still drink with and often seduce people who do. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton and I am astonishingly not sunburned. |
| 0:42.0 | Today's program is brought to you by |
| 0:46.0 | Transparent bagels. |
| 0:48.0 | You know, I lived in New York for six years until asked to leave |
| 0:52.0 | and I can tell you there's nothing more |
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