Current Affairs

#23: You Can Call Me (Weird) Al

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The Current Affairs panel discuss why they fight in the first place and then share what cultural products are their favorite lefty gateway drugs.

The Panel

  • Sparky Abraham, finance editor
  • Lyta Gold, amusements editor
  • Aisling McCrea, contributing editor
  • Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief
  • Pete Davis, host

    • Our lefty gateway drugs

    • Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You Mr. Rosewater
    • [Black Star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Star_(rap_duo)
    • Mos Def's Black on Both Sides
    • A Bug’s Life
    • Star Trek
    • Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
    • The musical [Cabaret](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_(musical)
    • Soylent Green
    • Hey Arnold!
    • The Ralph Nader documentary An Unreasonable Man
    • Weird Al's UHF

      • The Noam Chomsky piece Pete referred to is "When Chomsky Wept."

      This episode was edited by Dan Thorn at Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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