#76: We Bite, We Vote

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The panel give their NFT takes, propose a universal database of all human knowledge, and share some hard-earned life lessons. The nest this week was inhabited by finance editor Sparky Abraham, poet-at-large Cate Root, editor-in-chief Nathan Robinson, and amusements and managing editor Lyta Gold. "The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free": https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/ "As Google Fights Fake News, Voices on the Margins Raise Alarm": https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/technology/google-search-bias-claims.html 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, it's Current Affairs, your ear's greatest
0:07.2	hour of politics and culture.
0:09.8	Tonight, we discuss NFTs.
0:12.8	Are they art?
0:14.1	Are they money?
0:15.1	Are they drugs?
0:16.7	We'll find out.
0:17.7	Then, Nathan pitches us on the universal database of all human knowledge.
0:22.3	And we will also share some life lessons that we've learned through a very painful experience.
0:27.4	Our panel tonight, we have our beloved poet at large, Kate Root.
0:33.4	Hi, everyone.
0:34.0	We have our very tired and sore finance editor, Sparky Abraham.
0:39.8	Oh, yes, hello.
0:42.2	He got beat up at a Brazilian judici gym.
0:44.8	It's good. It's fine.
0:46.5	It was on purpose.
0:48.2	He didn't offend everybody there.
0:50.2	Maybe he did.
0:51.1	And our editor-in-chief himself, Nathan J. Robinson.
0:55.2	Good evening. I am your temporary host tonight, Amusements and Managing Editor, Lita Gold.
1:00.6	I almost forgot my own title because it's a mouthful. But let's get started.
1:05.2	We are going to begin tonight with segment one. The name of this segment is, it's a recurring segment.
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