How to Unstuck Idiot Political Beliefs
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
How do people wind up with their deepest political convictions? How and when do they change? Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy is a political scientist, standup comedian, and occasional circus performer. She joins Heaton to talk about where political beliefs come from, and better tools to understand them than the standard "left or right." Ep. 29
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| 0:00.0 | Folks you're listening to the political orphanage. When everybody else is yelling about |
| 0:11.7 | who's good and who's vile, this podcast is figuring out how people think. |
| 0:16.6 | It's not a battleground, it's a playground. We're glad you're here. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Andrew Heaton and today I am joined by Dr. Andrea Jones Roy. |
| 0:24.0 | Andrea, welcome back. |
| 0:25.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:26.5 | Thrilled to be here at the orphanage with you. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm always a pleasure to have you on. |
| 0:30.0 | I was just telling you you're one of my all-time favorite guests and and you're like a trifecta of things like you're so for anybody |
| 0:37.1 | that's unfamiliar with the show I know you through comedy I know you as a funny comedian that is the |
| 0:41.2 | primary way in which you and I have interacted |
| 0:43.2 | historically but also professionally you're a political scientist and and I should |
| 0:48.6 | call you Dr Andrea Jones Roy you're actually a doctor you know what you're |
| 0:51.1 | talking about we are friends so you can just call me |
| 0:53.3 | her highness or something. Yeah yeah yeah that's fine. Yeah I'm very into the royal so let's go yeah. |
| 0:57.7 | But you're a funny political scientist and also apparently like a freelance circus performer or something to that effect. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | Because you and I were, rather, I came to your show in New York in December and you were explaining political science through a combination of comedy and trapeze acts, which I don't think is standard in political science departments. |
| 1:19.0 | You know, increasingly it is. I actually have a mission to fold the two and make it part of a degree |
| 1:23.3 | requirement but I'm not getting far so so we're not good yet. Well it was it was great I |
| 1:27.7 | really enjoyed it and I left and I was like oh my God I am so pleased that Andrea and I are friends and live in different states because I would find you unbearably intimidating if I just came into the show and walked up. |
| 1:41.0 | So I was... No, I've long maintained that I'm best in profound |
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