361: Salena Zito—A Place and a Purpose in a World Gone Mad

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The Washington Examiner columnist and reporter discusses why Lincoln's Gettysburg address holds up 160 years later, why she's building a room to hold miniature trains, the "dust up" in the Middle East, our current age of disruption, and why people are searching for something bigger than themselves. Then, by request, Mike serenade's Salena.

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0:00.0	Well, hello there. It's the way I heard it. Episode number 361. This is called A Place and a Purpose in a World Gone Mad.
0:11.2	Because that is what Selena Zito has in this upside-down, topsy-turvy world in which we find ourselves. She has a place and she has a purpose. And both of those things,
0:22.3	Chuck, I think she makes abundantly clear in the conversation we're about to share. Yes, she does.
0:28.4	And it's not just about her the place and purpose. It's a feeling that everyone is searching for a
0:35.4	place and a purpose. I guess.
0:38.1	Do you think?
0:39.1	Yeah.
0:39.6	I'm not sure.
0:40.4	I don't know if everybody's searching.
0:41.8	I don't know.
0:42.7	I am.
0:43.5	I suspect you are.
0:45.1	Selina clearly is.
0:46.9	People are obviously twisted up right now, whether it's the situation in the Mideast or, I mean, just pick your headline.
0:55.6	People are just in a constant state, it seems, of, oh my God, what am I going to do?
1:02.0	And the reason Selena is always fun to talk to is because she always writes about people who
1:07.6	typically aren't covered in the mainstream press. And she writes really well about them.
1:13.1	She's become a friend. I think this is the third time we've had her on. And I really wanted to
1:18.7	talk to her about her most recent column. It was the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.
1:23.8	And she wrote something that I thought was great. And so we kind of jump into that.
1:28.7	We didn't talk too much about the article she wrote before that,
1:32.5	which was about this dude, who you know named Mike Rowe.
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