#58: Niche or Mass?

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The panel attempts to understand TikTok comedy, give an update on what's going on with immigration, and explore the division of "highbrow" versus "lowbrow". Online things that were referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXbj2fE2mMI https://mooncrew.substack.com/p/the-story-of-a-tree-falling-in-houston This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World Headquarters.
0:05.2	It's current affairs, your ear's finest hour of politics and culture.
0:11.0	Tonight on the program, we check in on the state of comedy,
0:14.9	we hear a report from the border from Brianna, and we all share what we are snobby and normie about.
0:23.9	Our panel tonight,
0:25.5	Current Affairs Amusements and Managing Editor,
0:28.3	Lida Gold.
0:29.6	Hi.
0:30.8	Current Affairs Left Tenant Editor, Brianna Renix.
0:34.3	Hi, guys.
0:35.2	Current Affairs Business Manager, Allegra Silcox.
0:38.1	Hello.
0:38.8	Current Affairs legal editor himself.
0:43.4	Orrin Nimney.
0:45.3	Oh, hello, Pete.
0:46.5	Thank you, everyone.
0:47.3	Oh, stop applauding.
0:48.4	Stop applauding.
0:50.8	Please, everyone, sit down.
0:52.8	I'm your host, Pete Davis.
0:54.8	Let us begin with segment one, golden age or dark age.
0:59.5	In the recurring segment, golden age or dark age, we reflect on if some genre is in a golden
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