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Current Affairs

#8: Dreams, Schemes & Time Machines

Current Affairs

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The Current Affairs panel discusses what the end of racism and sexism might look like, legal star Ian Samuel enters the Lefty Shark Tank to pitch Supreme Court packing, and we all share our favorite historical what-ifs. (Plus, the segment breaks are haunted by disturbing 20th century ghosts!)

Transcript

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From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World Headquarters, it's Current Affairs, your

0:08.9

ears' greatest hour of politics and culture.

0:12.4

Today on the program, the panel discusses what the end of racism and sexism might look

0:18.1

like.

0:18.9

Legal star Ian Samuel enters the lefty shark tank to pitch court packing, and we all share

0:25.0

our favorite historical what-ifs.

0:28.4

Our panel today.

0:30.6

Current Affairs social media editor Vanessa A.B.

0:34.1

Hi.

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Current Affairs contributing editor, Brianna Joy Gray. Howdy. Current Affairs legal editor, Oren Nimni. Hi, Hi. Current Affairs contributing editor, Brianna Joy Gray. Howdy.

0:38.3

Current Affairs legal editor, Oran Nimni.

0:40.3

Hi, everyone.

0:41.3

And the editor-in-chief himself, Nathan, J. Robinson.

0:46.3

Hello there.

0:47.3

I'm your host, Pete Davis.

0:49.3

Let's begin with segment one.

0:51.3

What do we actually want?

0:54.8

Sometimes we on the left think we know what we want, and the only thing stopping us is we

0:59.4

haven't won power yet.

1:01.1

But other times, we don't yet know what we actually want.

1:05.1

To remedy this, we present the recurring segment.

1:08.0

What do we actually want?

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