Jubilee Day 1 - Nick and Sparky's CA Gripefest

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Hello all! We took a week off for the holidays, but now we're back—and we've brought presents! To ring in the new year, we're bringing everyone five free episodes throughout the week. Some of them will be brand-new, some will be former Patreon exclusives; some will be new episodes that would usually be Patreon-only, but that we want to share with you because we just like you that much. If you enjoy these episodes, we'd recommend you subscribe to our Patreon for more, but either way, we hope you like them. Today, we return to our Room 101 miniseries, in which two members of the CA team try and convince each other to consign their most hated objects, people and concepts to the deepest, darkest room. Nathan, Oren, Lyta and Brianna have all previously appeared in this miniseries; this time around, it's Nick and Sparky. Candidates for banishment include two geographical regions of the United States, one type of clothing, one political concept, and one beloved television show. Things get a little banish-happy towards the end. Episodes I and II of this series here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-room-101-i-21532235 https://www.patreon.com/posts/23223335 Cleveland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Hello, current affairs listeners. This is Ashling McCrae here. You may have noticed that we took a week off
0:06.7	for the holidays, but now we're back and we've brought you some presents. To ring in the new year,
0:13.4	we're going to bring you five free episodes this week. Some of them are going to be brand new episodes.
0:22.9	Some of them are going to be episodes that used to be on the Patreon, but we're unlocking them for everyone. Some of them are going to be
0:29.3	new episodes that usually would be Patreon only, but we want to share them with you because it's,
0:36.5	you know, the season of giving, or it was a few days ago.
0:40.8	If you enjoy these episodes, we'd recommend that you subscribe to the Patreon because we have
0:46.5	lots more episodes on there. So you can go to www.com slash current affairs to find out more. But even if you don't, we hope that you
0:57.8	enjoy these episodes. Live from the Studio H3 World Headquarters of the Current Affair podcast,
1:05.2	it is your ear's finest hour of politics and culture. I'm your temporary host, newsletter editor Nick Slater,
1:12.7	here for a very special episode. I'm joined by finance editor, Sparky Abraham. Hello, Nick.
1:19.3	Hello, Sparky. Well, longtime listeners of the pod may remember that we have a recurring
1:25.0	episode that we'd like to do called Room 101.
1:28.7	If you're unfamiliar with Room 101, here is a very, very quick summary.
1:33.1	In George Orwell's book in 1984, there is a room that is terrible.
1:37.8	It is full of the worst, most dreadful, horrible, probably smelly things that you can imagine.
1:46.3	We want to condemn the things that we hate to this room.
1:51.5	So Sparky and I will be going through a list of each other's biggest pet peeves,
1:55.8	biggest hates, the things that make us angrier than anything else on Earth,
1:59.6	and we're going to make a case for why each of those things belongs in room 101.
2:05.2	Sparky, have I missed anything about the premise?
2:07.1	No, no, this is the, this is the Sparky and Nick Gripfest is what's happening right now.
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