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The Political Orphanage

The Answer is Always Status

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Comedy, Moderate, Politics, Independent, News, Nonpartisan, Libertarian

5951 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Will Storr is the author of “The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It.” He joins to discuss the never-ending scrum for status which defines human hierarchies.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

0:14.5

I'm your host, Andrew Heaton.

0:18.0

Have you ever noticed that when celebrities get really big,

0:22.4

they develop inexplicable accents. Have you noticed this?

0:26.0

Madonna grew up in Michigan, but then in her 30s or 40s she sort of developed a British

0:32.4

accent. We're here check out

0:34.8

Lindsay Loeen. This is just me holding it with me walking, going, whereas the

0:40.3

paparazzi may be across the street I didn know, and they crucified me for it in America.

0:44.7

She's from Long Island. Where the hell is that accent coming from? What is it? What is that accent?

0:51.3

The Italian?

0:53.0

It wasn't there when she was a child actress in the parent trap.

0:56.0

But my all-time favorite is Hilaria Baldwin,

1:00.0

Alec Baldwin's wife.

1:01.0

My God, I love this. I don't normally engage in celebrity rubbernecking,

1:07.4

but just listen to the rapid evolution of Hilaria's accent.

1:12.4

He said that was as close as he could get to

1:14.8

Spain to my family and to Rome because we really like Rome as well. Yep, okay that

1:19.0

checks out so far. She grew up in Massachusetts, She lives in New York.

1:23.1

Standard American Accent.

1:24.6

The world is as it should be.

1:26.7

Now, let's see her again later that same year.

1:30.4

Married life is really nice.

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