Episode #33: Bike Dancing

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the Current Affairs team discuss the usefulness of boycotts, encouraging news, and Pete faces down the rest of the cruel and ruthless panel in a round of Lefty Shark Tank. The panel this week is amusements and managing editor Lyta Gold, senior editor Brianna Rennix, legal editor Oren Nimni, contributing editor Aisling McCrea and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson. Your host is Pete Davis. 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.
0:06.7	It's Current Affairs.
0:08.1	Your ears, greatest hour of politics and culture.
0:12.4	Today on the program, we ask, boycotts, are they worth it?
0:16.6	I enter the shark tank to pitch journalism subscription vouchers.
0:22.6	It's more interesting than it sounds, maybe.
0:25.4	And we all share some encouraging news.
0:29.7	Our panel tonight, senior editor, Brianna Renix.
0:32.9	Hello, everyone.
0:34.1	Legal editor Orrin Nimney.
0:36.6	Hello, everyone.
0:37.6	Amusements and managing editor, Light of Gold.
0:40.8	Hi.
0:41.9	Contributing editor and Podmaster General Ashling McCrae.
0:45.9	Hello.
0:46.6	And the editor-in-chief himself, Nathan J. Robinson.
0:54.4	Good evening. We begin with segment one.
0:57.8	Practical tactical. In the recurring segment, practical tactical, we discuss different
1:03.0	tactics and strategies being used in the political fights of the late 2010s and whether
1:07.7	we think they are good, useful, moral, and effective.
1:12.5	This week's topic, consumer boycotts.
1:15.9	Earlier this month, folks started boycotting mystical spin-cult soul cycle and eucalyptus
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