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The Political Orphanage

The Outer Limits of Hot Dog-Eating Contests (Friday Release Valve)

The Political Orphanage

Andrew Heaton

Politics, Comedy, News

4.91000 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

(SNFK) Comedian Mahesh Kotagi and playwright Jeremy Kareken join Friday Release Valve to sort out the week's funnier headlines, including a scientific report on the maximum amount of hot dogs one human could conceivably consume in ten minutes, what to do if your town is overwhelmed by polar bears, and the lengths Queen Elizabeth II will go to shore up her finances during a sluggish tourism season.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. It is Friday earlier in the week. I do a good thinky substantive episode. I talked to a Dutch guy about a book he wrote

0:15.0

it's a great thing if you're looking to think however it's Friday now and I'm

0:19.0

tired of thinking and if you two are tired of thinking we're just going to have a great spurt of catharsis through

0:26.0

some funny headlines.

0:27.9

And I warn you, it's possible that there will be swearing.

0:30.6

Last week's involved some stories involving phallic statues and things so if you have

0:35.7

children in the car just just leave them at the curb and come back just leave them

0:39.3

there and circle back in about half an hour and to make sense of the week's best funniest and

0:45.4

underserved headlines I am bringing on two very funny friends of mine Jeremy

0:49.2

Keriken welcome back

0:51.3

good to be here. Thank you for having me.

0:53.8

Yeah, Jeremy has come on the show multiple times

0:56.3

to sort out the thinky stuff, and now we're bringing him on

0:58.4

just to sort out the funny stuff.

1:00.1

And Jeremy is...

1:01.8

I was going to be an idiot.... He's...

1:03.0

Now he's...

1:04.0

I didn't want to say to think of it,

1:05.0

but Jeremy's been slipping the last few months and I was like,

1:08.0

I don't think I could use him as a political analyst anymore.

1:11.0

I'm just gonna rely on him as a funny guy.

1:13.3

He's destroyed his whole industry.

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