#6: The Voicemailbag

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

A Current Affairs megapanel opens up the Current Affairs voicemailbag to answer listener questions on topics ranging from lefty groupthink to ethical consumption to Lyta's theory of comedy to the origin of Nathan's Chomsky love.

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0:00.0	From Studio H3 and the Current Affairs World Headquarters, it's Current Affairs, your
0:08.6	ears, greatest hour of politics and culture.
0:11.3	Today we have a very special program for the entirety of the program, segment one, segment
0:17.6	two, and segment three, we will be responding to listener messages and voicemails.
0:23.7	We told you we wanted to make current affairs a two-way street, and we are making good
0:28.2	on that promise today.
0:30.7	Our extra large panel for this extra special episode, Current Affairs Senior Editor Brianna
0:37.4	Renix. Hello. Current Affairs social editor, Breonna Renix.
0:38.1	Hello.
0:39.4	Current Affairs social media editor, Vanessa A.B.
0:42.3	Hi.
0:42.9	Current Affairs Amusements Editor, Light of Gold.
0:45.8	Hi.
0:46.8	Current Affairs legal editor, Oran Nimney.
0:49.5	Hi, everybody.
0:51.2	Current Affairs contributing editor, Breonna Joy Gray.
0:58.6	Hi, guys. And the editor-in-chief himself, Nathan, J. Robinson.
1:05.4	Hello there. I'm your host, Pete Davis. Before we get into the voicemails, I have an opening question for the panel based on my experience compiling the voicemails. And it's a question that is a bit collectively self-reflective and self-critical,
1:13.9	which are qualities we are striving for here on this program.
1:17.6	So here goes with the bad news.
1:20.5	Every single voicemail, since the last time we played voicemails,
1:25.0	over a dozen voicemails on the program, are from men.
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