Wizard Children

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

A lot of people are completely sick and tired of the world's twenty-year-long obsession with Harry Potter. "Shut up about Harry Potter! Read another book!" they cry. To which we respond: no. This week, Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson, senior editor Brianna Rennix, amusements and managing editor Lyta Gold, legal editor Oren Nimni, finance editor Sparky Abraham, and Current Affairs Podcast host Pete Davis have a long, extremely animated discussion about the Wizard Children And Their Politics. You can read more about the time-travelling Ron Weasley theory here: https://the-toast.net/2014/01/02/let-the-man-speak/

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0:00.0	from Studio H3 in Current Affairs World Headquarters. Your heart's greatest hour of listening? I don't know.
0:07.3	Welcome, everyone. This is the current affairs wizard children episode. I've been informed that this topic
0:12.4	is controversial enough that it may be our last episode ever and the end of the magazine.
0:17.4	So I hope you have all enjoyed the last few years of current affairs after today.
0:23.0	It will be over. I'm your finance editor and host for the day, Sparky Abraham. I'm here with an
0:27.2	illustrious panel. I'm not going to say everybody's title because it's going to take too long.
0:29.9	We've got light of gold. We've got Briano Renix. We've got Pete Davis. We got Orrin Nimney.
0:33.5	We've got Nathan Robinson himself. Looking the most like Harry Potter, by the way.
0:38.4	People shout that at me as I bike through the city.
0:41.2	Wait, hold on they shout that at you?
0:45.1	That's awesome.
0:45.7	Yeah, I get that shouted at me along.
0:47.3	Didn't Mike Sertovich make fun of you for looking like Harry Potter at one point?
0:51.2	Wait, yeah, I'd love to poll the difference between people who call you Willy Wonka and people
0:55.8	who call your hair-com.
0:56.8	Oh my God, yes.
0:59.0	Are you their love child?
1:01.1	Well, it's the good people versus the bad people.
1:03.1	We're going to have lots of time to talk about whether or not Nathan is more like
1:06.6	Willy Wonka or Harry Potter.
1:08.5	First, just to introduce the, for listeners who may not know,
1:12.7	there is, so before she was a rabid centrist trolling Twitter personality, J.K. Rowling actually
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