#41: The Old Man Hour

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The panel shares their thoughts on antiwar movements, indulges in movie chat, and attempts to provoke the audience with scandalous opinions. Topics include Louisa May Alcott, bats dressed in human clothes, parades, concrete, folk music, and butter vats. The panel this week was associate editor Vanessa A. Bee, senior editor Brianna Rennix, and legal editor Oren Nimni. Your host is Aisling McCrea. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA. Music: 'Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye' - The Irish Rovers National Tweet: 'Ham'

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0:00.0	From Studio H4, in the Current Affairs world headquarters, it's current affairs, your ear's optimum hour of politics and culture.
0:13.1	Apologies to the maintenance team in Studio H3. We didn't mean to make such a mess.
0:19.6	Tonight on the program, how do we mobilize anti-war sentiment?
0:25.1	I scream at the panel at whatever it is I want to scream about today.
0:28.8	And we all indulge in some scandalous opinions.
0:34.0	Joining me tonight, Current Affairs Senior Editor Brianna Renix.
0:39.1	Hi, guys. Current Affairs legal editor, Lauren Nimni.
0:42.2	Hello, everyone.
0:43.8	And Current Affairs Associate Editor, Vanessa A.B.
0:47.9	Hello.
0:49.3	We begin with the recurring segment, Anti-War. what is it good for? On the recurring segment,
0:57.6	anti-war, what is it good for? We discuss anti-war movements, their triumphs, their failures,
1:03.8	their goals, and what we can learn from them. Earlier this month, US forces killed Iranian general
1:10.1	Qasem Soleimani, and for about a week, everyone became extremely afraid.
1:16.1	While at the present moment, at the moment of recording, things seemed to have settled down from a rolling boil into a disquieting simmer.
1:25.7	The events have prompted many of us to ask ourselves the question, how do you stop a war?
1:30.9	Panel, how do you stop a war?
1:33.6	Never stop posting.
1:36.0	I think it's world number one.
1:39.7	I guess World War III will be fought on Twitter.
1:42.3	If the person in front of you drops dead, pick up their laptop and start posting for them.
1:50.0	It's hard to say because on the one hand, it's quite disappointing that we didn't like take to the streets and masks.
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