#68: The Episode for Bacteria

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The team uses the viral video of Handforth Parish Council as a jumping-off point to discuss the thorny concept of "community"; Sparky makes renting illegal; everyone explains something that makes them believe in the beauty of the universe. The panel this week was made up of finance editor Sparky Abraham, contributing editor Aisling McCrea, editor-in-chief Nathan Robinson, and host Nick Slater. Handforth Parish Council: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGmYeAm0jk Windowswap: https://www.window-swap.com/ This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Live from the CDH3 World Headquarters of Current Affairs, this current affairs podcast for
0:03.9	year's finest hour of politics and culture.
0:07.1	Today, on the podcast, we have three segments that are going to blow your mind.
0:11.4	Actually, I don't want to oversell it.
0:12.9	They'll make your mind feel nice.
0:14.9	First, community.
0:16.2	Are we sure we wanted?
0:17.6	Number two, lefty spark tank, a controversial pitch to abolish one of the United
0:21.3	States' favorite pastimes, and three, touched consensually by an angel. What makes us feel the
0:27.3	spirit, so to speak? Today on the panel, I am joined by three of your favorite current affairs
0:33.3	people, people, not just editors, because we think of them as people, fully formed human beings.
0:38.6	We've got finance editor, Sparky Abraham.
0:41.9	Hi, I'm not sure I'm a person, but thank you.
0:45.0	Yes, hello.
0:45.4	You're a person, you are a thing, a person thing.
0:48.0	Fully formed, I don't know.
0:49.7	Pretty, it's three quarters formed.
0:52.6	Mostly baked.
0:53.7	We're getting there.
0:54.0	We also have contributing editor ashling mccray
0:58.1	that is me it is you no yeah that is that that is you and finally last but certainly not least
1:05.2	it is the editor in chief himself Nathan J. Robinson
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