Voicemailbag VI

Current Affairs

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4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The Current Affairs team has stuck their hands into the mailbag once again, and pulled out a handful of your voicemails. Topics range from the likelihood of getting mangoes under socialism, to the frailty of velvet trousers. The panel this time is: amusements and managing editor Lyta Gold, business manager Eli Massey, contributing editor and podcastrix Aisling McCrea, senior editor Brianna Rennix, finance editor Sparky Abraham, and your host is editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson. The case we discuss towards the end of this episode is Adoptive Couple v Baby Girl, 570 U.S. 637 (2013). For more detailed analysis of the case, and other material relating to Indian law, consider reading Turtle Talk at https://turtletalk.blog/. 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
0:06.9	Ear's greatest hour of politics and culture.
0:10.5	Good evening, Current Affairs listeners.
0:12.1	I'm Nathan J. Robinson, the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs magazine, filling in for Peter
0:16.3	Davis, and this is Current Affairs, your ears, finest hour of politics and culture tonight on the program.
0:24.4	We take your voicemails and we give you our observations, our wisdom in response to your queries, comments and concerns.
0:31.8	You can always call the current affairs voicemail line at 504-867-8851.
0:38.4	That's 504-867-8851, and we may play your message on the air.
0:44.3	Okay, let's introduce our panel.
0:47.7	Tonight we have current affairs financial editor, Sparky Abraham.
0:52.3	Hello, everyone.
0:53.4	Current Affairs Lieutenant Editor, Brianna Reddix. Hi, guys. I don't know what Hello, everyone. Current Affairs, Lieutenant Editor, Breonna Reddix.
0:56.3	Hi, guys. I don't know what's going on.
0:57.9	Current Affairs, business manager, man about town, and dog's body, Eli Massey.
1:03.4	Yo.
1:04.2	Current Affairs, Podmaster General and contributing editor, Ashling McCray.
1:10.4	Hello.
1:11.1	And finally, we have the new and improved, likable, lighter gold, managing and abusements editor.
1:21.7	Now, some of our male listeners have pronounced themselves alienated by Leiter's brand of strident feminist politics.
1:32.5	They have objected to, for example, her suggestion that all men be strapped to a rocket and fired
1:38.1	into the sun. We have heard your concerns. We do not want any poor babies to feel unwelcome in the movement.
1:46.5	And so, Lightergold has rebranded. She is still a feminist, but she's not one of those feminists.
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