#48: An Analysis of Birds, Large and Small

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The panel discusses the prospect of an alliance between the left and the 'populist right', exposes their complicated relationships with Twitter, and recommends their favorite books for introducing friends to the left. The panel this week was made up of a series of holograms cleverly designed to imitate administrative maven Cate Root, finance editor Sparky Abraham, and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson. Your host is Lyta Gold. Book recommendations: Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane McAlevey: www.versobooks.com/books/1648-raising-expectations-and-raising-hell Anarchy: A Graphic Guide by Clifford Harper: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/667752.Anarchy Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape by Brian Hayes (2014 ed.): http://industrial-landscape.com/#/home The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth Current Affairs book collection: https://www.currentaffairs.org/store Danny Bradley: www.dannybradleymusic.com/store This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA. Music: Alexander Blu

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0:00.0	Live from Studio H3 in the Current Affairs of Virtual H-Graphic World Headquarters, it's Current
0:06.7	Affairs. Your ear's most plausibly realistic hour of politics and culture.
0:12.1	Tonight on the program, our panel discusses whether allying fascists is good or bad,
0:16.8	whether Twitter is good or bad, and whether books are good or bad.
0:21.2	That's a spoiler, books are good.
0:22.6	Tonight on the panel, we have the very convincing simulation known as Finance Editor Sparky Abraham.
0:28.1	Hello, everybody.
0:29.1	We have a literally perfect human. That's our administrative maven, Kate Root.
0:33.6	Hello!
0:34.6	And we have the man who's been called an acceptable imitation of a human being,
0:38.5	editor-in-chief himself, Nathan J. Robinson.
0:41.9	Hello.
0:43.3	I thought you were going to fight me on that, and you didn't.
0:45.6	Fight on simulation of a human being.
0:47.8	I mean, enough people have said that they don't believe I exist to where I'm coming to believe that myself.
0:54.8	So.
0:55.3	I've met you in person and I don't think you exist.
0:57.4	So when Sparky and I lived together, he did once confess to me that he thought I was a
1:01.8	figment of his imagination.
1:03.7	That's true.
1:04.4	That's true.
1:04.7	Was it like a, oh God, that, that, um, the movie about the mathematician who, uh, who
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