#78: A Utopia of Rum

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The Current Affairs flock investigate how the right created a moral panic around "critical race theory", dare to make all tax records public, and dream of utopia. The flock this week is made up of senior editor Brianna Rennix, finance editor Sparky Abraham, editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson. Your host is Lyta Gold. "How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict over Critical Race Theory": https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conservative-activist-invented-the-conflict-over-critical-race-theory/amp "Solidarity Never" by Current Affairs lyrebird Danny Bradley. 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,
0:06.0	Your Ear's greatest hour of politics and culture.
0:10.0	Tonight, we are discussing some bullshit.
0:14.0	Specifically, we are always discussing some bullshit, that's the joke.
0:19.0	Specifically, the latest conservative moral panic, which goes by a new name, but is just the same old shit.
0:23.6	Then, Sparky, our own beloved Sparky Abraham, is going to pitch us on why everybody's taxes should be public information.
0:29.6	Yes, that includes your taxes.
0:31.6	And finally, we are going to leave the world of frustration and money behind, and we're going to consider beautiful, sparkling utopias,
0:39.3	specifically the ones we'd like to live in the most.
0:41.7	Our panel tonight, we have, as aforementioned,
0:46.1	Sparky Abraham, our finance editor.
0:48.0	Hello.
0:48.8	We have the wonderful, the only, our lieutenant editor, Brianna Renix.
0:54.8	Hi, guys.
0:55.6	And the editor-in-chief himself, Nathan J. Robinson.
0:59.8	Hello.
1:00.6	I'm Leida Goldier, Amusements, and Managing Editor, and temporary but also a permanent host.
1:05.7	Who knows what's going on?
1:06.7	We're all having fun. We're all just having a good time.
1:09.9	You sound like you're having a really good time right now.
1:13.0	This is actually like one of my things.
1:14.6	What I'm like, if I'm watching like a TV show that like something's kind of stupid but I'm having fun, I say, you know, we're all just having a good time.
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