#29: Another Excuse To Eat Tex-Mex

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The Current Affairs panel discusses some of the controversies around Harvard University (cue booing sounds), creates a fabulous new post-utopia festival, and asks: how do we know when we're wrong? The panel this week is senior editor Brianna Rennix, managing and amusements editor Lyta Gold, legal editor Oren Nimni, associate editor Vanessa A. Bee, and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA. Many thanks to Josh Woodward for the music in the bit.

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0:00.0	From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World Headquarters, it's Current Affairs, your
0:06.1	ears greatest hour of politics and culture.
0:09.9	I'm your host, Lita Gold.
0:12.2	Where's Pete?
0:13.4	Pete is out today, don't worry, he's fine.
0:15.5	We're experimenting with sometimes, only sometimes, doing a guest host, so will it work?
0:22.6	Am I going to totally fuck it up?
0:28.1	Stay tuned and find out. So on today's program, we are going to talk about Harvard.
0:37.2	We're also going to discuss some very deep thoughts about knowledge. How do we know what we know?
0:38.2	How do we figure out when we're wrong? Plus, we've got brand new holidays of the glorious utopian future.
0:43.5	Our panel tonight is Current Affairs Senior Editor Brianna Renix. Hello, everyone. Current Affairs
0:48.8	is a legal editor, Oren Nimney. Hi, everyone. Current Affairs Associate Editor, it's a shiny new
0:54.0	title. It's Vanessa A.B. Hi. And she'll still be tweeting. Hi, everyone. Current Affairs Associate Editor. It's a shiny new title.
0:54.7	It's Vanessa A.B.
0:56.4	Hi.
0:57.1	And she'll still be tweeting.
0:58.0	Don't worry.
0:58.5	Everything is fine.
0:59.2	I mean, we also have the editor-in-chief himself, Nathan, J. Robinson.
1:03.5	Oh, hello.
1:04.2	Again, I am your temporary host, Leida Gold.
1:06.9	We're going to begin tonight with segment one.
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