The Presidential Debate Was Mostly Heckling
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
You can't truly understand last night's Trump vs. Biden debate without hearing from comedians, because so much of the train wreck was performative or outright heckling.
Comedians Turner Sparks, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Michael Kaplan, and Heaton discuss: Was there an actual strategy behind last night's antics? What's the balance of horror to petulance?
The episode is the first joint venture of the brand new World's Smartest Podcasting Network, an alliance of independent comedians with the goal of making politics suck less! Other network shows are: "The Lost in America Podcast" with Turner Sparks & Michael Kaplan, and "Ask a Political Scientist" with Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy.
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| 0:00.0 | Sweet Lord, did you watch the presidential debate between Biden and Trump? That was my God it was Peter |
| 0:20.6 | Suderman a friend of mine over at Reason, described that as Waldorf and Stattler, the two |
| 0:27.6 | Muppets from the Opera Box, those old guys, it was as if Waldorf and Stattler performed a Samuel Beckett play while high |
| 0:38.2 | if you like Samuel Beckett or you hate Samuel Beckett but you like the m Muppets, that's a pretty good reference. |
| 0:43.6 | Anyway, I think he captured it. |
| 0:44.9 | That was a crazy debate, and we're going to unpack it today, not just me. |
| 0:50.3 | But I am going to bring on several of my friends that are not only my friends and comedians that I know, |
| 0:55.9 | but are fan favorites that come on the program. Turner Sparks, Michael Kaplan of the Lost in America |
| 1:02.0 | Podcast, as well as Dr. Andrea Jones Roy, a political |
| 1:06.9 | scientist and comedian in her own right, they're all going to come on the program |
| 1:10.6 | here momentarily so that we can make sense of the train wreck we witnessed yesterday. |
| 1:17.6 | And we'll probably be doing that somewhat regularly as we have decided to combine forces and |
| 1:26.3 | create the world's smartest podcast network. We are formalizing our podcasting alliance so that if we ever go to war with |
| 1:35.9 | France, we know whose side we're on. We're going to be on the world's smartest |
| 1:39.5 | podcast network. That's our side. And what you're about to hear today is going to be a |
| 1:44.4 | monthly staple of the program we're going to put this out on the main feed today |
| 1:47.6 | however from now on once a month at least we're all going to get together and do |
| 1:51.7 | bonus content like the episode you're |
| 1:53.4 | about to hear. So if the end of the episode you think, you know that was actually |
| 1:58.0 | much better hearing comedians discuss the presidential debate than if we turned into regular punditry. |
| 2:04.4 | I sure would like to get more of that. Well you can. |
| 2:07.4 | You can do that if you go to Patreon.com |
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