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#23: You Can Call Me (Weird) Al

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Episode 23

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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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Published on 6 years, 8 months ago