Voicemailbag XI

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The team answers your questions! Topics include crowdfunding, teachers' strikes, Trump removal, cats versus dogs, positivity versus negativity, and the FBI. No-one asked a question about stamps, but the team talks about stamps anyway. The panel this week was finance editor Sparky "Spiky" Abraham, poet-at-large Cate Root, associate editor Vanessa A. Bee, and business manager Allegra Silcox. Your host this week was Nathan J. Robinson. New Orleans story where the guy says "neighborhoods are businessses": https://thelensnola.org/2020/07/28/a-major-paradigm-shift-new-orleans-hires-former-short-term-rental-executive-to-lead-land-use-regulation-with-new-business-minded-approach/ Prologue to Jane McAlevey's book with "Florida 2000" story: https://janemcalevey.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Florida-Recount.pdf Lev Menand on the Federal Reserve: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36068735 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. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor of Current Affairs Magazine, which has just hit its 25th print edition. If you subscribe today, you can get the beautiful 25th print edition. We are trying to promote the print magazine on the podcast more, so this is me telling
0:21.7	you to go to current affairs.org slash subscribe onto the podcast. Your ear's finest hour of
0:29.0	politics, culture, and tonight, your voice, because it's the voicemail episode with me are current affairs financial editor spikey
0:41.8	abraham did you just did you just call me spiky sparky spiky abraham
0:46.9	hello nathan good morning current affairs um uh venezsa your title is so Good morning. Current Affairs.
0:58.5	Vanessa, your title is associate.
0:59.5	Associate, I do?
1:01.7	It's like money.
1:03.4	It's all made up, Nathan.
1:05.3	Vanessa's here.
1:06.1	Associate. Hello.
1:07.9	The poet, the poet at large.
1:10.6	Kate Root is here.
1:12.0	Hi.
1:13.7	And our business manager, the woman who keeps the whole enterprise together,
1:20.6	Allegra Silcox is here.
1:22.9	Guten Morgan, Nathan.
1:24.4	Hello.
1:25.2	Hello, everyone.
1:26.8	So tonight on the program, instead of you listening to us,
1:31.6	we listen to you and then you listen to us. It's voicemail bag number, how many we've done the lot of it?
1:42.0	I think 11, because the last one says X, which I assume is the Roman numeral, not like just an X.
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