When a Government Accidentally Declares You Dead (Friday Release Valve)
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
(NSKF) As part of my ongoing commitment to providing levity and sanity during quarantine, I am for some length of time resurrecting an old segment: Friday Release Valve, where I grab some comedy buddies to go over the week's undeserved headlines.
Turner Sparks and Andrea Jones-Rooy join me to talk about: when a government accidentally declares you dead, how to fix basketball using firearms, Cambodian machete making, and Canadian gambling ordinances.
Season 2, Ep 49
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| 0:00.0 | It's the quarantine, locked down. I used to do a daily program and I had a segment on Fridays called Friday release valve where I brought on a funny friend to talk about underserved headlines just for kicks to give everybody a big cathartic release. |
| 0:22.0 | Several people have contacted me saying that they really give everybody a big cathartic release. |
| 0:22.8 | Several people have contacted me saying that they really enjoyed that old segment of the program |
| 0:26.7 | and they could really use a boost of levity during the current situation and so for some amount of time I am bringing that back. |
| 0:35.0 | Today I am joined by one of my favorite people, a frequent comedian whom I have done stand |
| 0:39.9 | up with. I have opened or I featured for you. I didn't open for you. I was like your vice president. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm Turner Sparks Vice President of comedy and Turner's the head of that ticket and |
| 0:50.3 | and Turner is back. Turner, what you're doing a bunch of things right now you've got like multiple |
| 0:55.4 | podcasts now and where can people find you because I know the people enjoy you |
| 0:59.4 | okay well thank you people can find me at Lost in America Podcast, which we do weekly. |
| 1:06.9 | That's free, that's on Monday, if that comes out on anywhere you can get at your podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | So right now, you can hear, we have Ari Schifir on this week. Oh wow he's a |
| 1:15.5 | he's a known commodity. He's a known commodity he got he got canceled by culture |
| 1:20.9 | about a month ago when he took a very controversial stance on the |
| 1:25.0 | death of Kobe Bryant and maybe two months ago but we talk all about that. |
| 1:29.8 | Wait, wait, hold on. Is he pre-death of, or is he pro-death of Kobe Bryan? Is he like pro- helicopter death? |
| 1:36.7 | Like is it? Unfortunately, he brought, well, I mean, listen, he brought up, I'm not going to defend him, okay? |
| 1:43.6 | No, I'm just trying. |
| 1:45.6 | I don't even understand there was a controversial take on that. |
| 1:47.9 | Or is it like former rape allegations or something? |
| 1:50.9 | He was the one, and it, he was the one, and it did not serve him well but he had he brought up the you |
| 1:55.2 | know Kobe had rape allegations in the early 2000s and the way that they got |
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