Voicemailbag VII

Current Affairs

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🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

We've gathered up all your voicemails and picked out a few for discussion! Are the Olympics woke? Should you yell at Ben Shapiro? What is a nation? Who decides how to fund art? How do we protect public schools? Did Eve make the right choice? Should Aisling be sent to Siberia? Today, all these questions will be answered. The song at the end was written and performed by Dan, one of our lovely readers. You can find the song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm04Vw1CD2c And his Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/user-905346049 You can read some examples of the All Souls exam questions here: https://verbivoco.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/all-souls-general-exam-questions-2009-to-2014.pdf Current Affairs on nationalism: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/12/whats-with-nationalism Current Affairs on schools: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/the-case-for-free-college https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/08/what-is-education-for https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/11/why-is-the-decimation-of-public-schools-a-bad-thing This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Good evening, current affairs listeners.
0:02.0	My name is Nathan Roberts, and I'm the editor of Current Affairs Magazine.
0:06.2	And we have an embarrassment of riches for you tonight.
0:10.5	Because it's listener voicemail week, we take your calls, your queries, your comments, your concerns.
0:18.3	We answer them as best we care.
0:21.0	Tonight, I am joined by current affairs, business manager, and now contributing editor.
0:28.7	As of last week, Mr. Eli Massey.
0:31.6	Hello.
0:32.2	I am joined by financial editor, Sparky Abraham.
0:35.8	Hello, everyone.
0:36.3	I am joined by Amusements and Managing Editor, Miss Lighter Gold.
0:43.0	Hi.
0:44.0	And I'm joined by Podmaster General and Contributing Editor Ashling McRae.
0:49.7	Hello, Ashling.
0:50.8	Okay, let's go to our first voicemail.
0:53.7	Hi, Karen Affairs, calling from the Carolina. I just wanted to know what your thoughts are on the Olympics, because for me, it's always been sort of a problematic fave. So do you think there's a sustainable and economically just way to do the Olympics? Do you think having sort of international competitions like this
1:12.4	is productive at all? Tell me what you think. Thanks. The Olympics, a problematic fave for the
1:18.9	listener who wants to know what we think of the Olympics and whether there's a point to it, whether
1:23.9	it's useful, and whether a viable version of the Olympics could ever be conceivable.
1:29.1	Can you have an Olympics without borders?
1:31.0	Yeah, of course you can.
1:32.1	Of course you can have Olympics without borders.
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