A Post-Election Note to You
Note to Self
WNYC Studios
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2016
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The nation is divided, and we're all processing. So, we curated a list of 7 episodes from the archive for your post-election reality.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Manouche, the host of Note To Self. |
| 0:08.6 | I just wanted to add a post-cript to our latest episode because within hours of wrapping |
| 0:14.6 | up that show, everything, of course, changed. |
| 0:18.4 | Donald Trump became our president, and it would be so weird to pretend that things here |
| 0:24.4 | in podcast land are just business as usual. |
| 0:28.9 | However you voted for, chances are you were surprised by the results. |
| 0:33.7 | And the fact that no one picks up their phone anymore meant that the posters were way off. |
| 0:39.2 | The way that we get our media and the way journalists do reporting contributed to what might |
| 0:44.1 | be one of the biggest political shocks in history. |
| 0:48.0 | So the morning after I put out a question to some of you online, what's your reflex right |
| 0:52.8 | now? |
| 0:53.8 | Do you turn it all off? |
| 0:55.0 | Or do you swim in the information? |
| 0:57.7 | Can you take Twitter off your phone? |
| 0:59.9 | Or do you double down on those hashtags? |
| 1:03.5 | Your answers? |
| 1:04.5 | My dear Note To Self listeners were so mixed and very telling. |
| 1:09.3 | I actually just deactivated Facebook. |
| 1:11.8 | That's what Nicole and Michigan tweeted at me. |
| 1:14.3 | Cameron in Seattle also said that she took Facebook off her phone. |
| 1:18.5 | Conversely, Marlena in Arizona wrote, I need to remember that I'm not alone. |
| 1:24.4 | None of us are. |
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