Best-Of: The Pandemic and the Economy; Crime & Policing in 1993; Teens & Mental Health; Jobs & Identity
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, catch up with some recent interviews:
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Felix Salmon, chief financial correspondent for Axios, host of the Slate Money Podcast, and author of The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal (Harper Business, 2023), talks about the effect of the pandemic on the economy -- negative and positive.
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1993 saw the inauguration of a Democratic U.S. president and a Republican mayor of New York, Bill Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. Here, Bill Bratton, former New York City police commissioner and the author (with Peter Knobler) of The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America (Penguin Press, 2021), followed by Al Sharpton, civil rights leader, host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation, founder and president of the National Action Network (NAN) and the author of Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America (Hanover Square Press, 2022), look back at the effect of the Clinton crime bill and the Giuliani administration's policies.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report in February that showed an increase in teenagers struggling with their mental health, and the American Academy of Pediatrics has declared mental health challenges for teens a "national emergency." Lisa Damour, psychologist, co-host of the podcast “Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Parenting" and author of several books, including The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescent (Ballantine Books, 2023), shares coping strategies and talks about when parents and teenagers should seek help.
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Simone Stolzoff, journalist and the author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work (Portfolio, 2023), argues for reframing how Americans see work.
These interviews were edited slightly for rebroadcast; the original versions are available here:The Pandemic and the Economy (May 12, 2023)
The Year Of Clinton and Giuliani — How 1993 Helped Give Us The World of 2023: Part Four, Crime in NYC (Jan 25, 2023)
The Teenagers Are Not Alright: How to Cope and When to Get Help (May 10, 2023)
Unhitching Our Identities from Our Jobs (May 30, 2023)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brain Lair Show on WNYC, good morning everyone, and on this unofficial independent |
| 0:16.6 | state eve holiday, my producers and I are making it a four day weekend, and so we put together |
| 0:21.9 | a special show today of some of our favorite recent conversations, edited just a bit for |
| 0:27.1 | clarity and time. |
| 0:28.9 | We revisit part of the series we did, looking back at how 1993 helped give us the world |
| 0:34.7 | of 2023, the impact of 1993, the year that Bill Clinton became president and Rudy Giuliani |
| 0:41.5 | was elected mayor, the country moved left, but the city moved right. |
| 0:45.6 | We'll hear from former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton and the Reverend Al Sharpton about |
| 0:51.5 | the Clinton crime bill and the NYPD under Giuliani. |
| 0:56.0 | And psychologists Lisa Demore shares her insights into what's being called a mental |
| 1:00.7 | health emergency for America's teens, and we hear a case being made for only aspiring |
| 1:06.3 | to a good enough job. |
| 1:09.1 | But first finance journalist Felix Salmon looks at some of the ways the COVID public health |
| 1:14.4 | emergency changed the U.S. economy. |
| 1:17.6 | COVID isn't gone or forgotten, but as the crisis phase ends, what about the money? |
| 1:22.0 | We pick it up here. |
| 1:23.8 | Back with us now Felix Salmon, chief financial correspondent for Axios and host of the Slate |
| 1:28.7 | Money Podcast. |
| 1:29.7 | Felix has a new book about the ongoing economic impact of the pandemic called the Phoenix |
| 1:36.1 | economy, work, life, and money in the new, not normal, in a nutshell, his premise is |
| 1:44.8 | that the pandemic has made the economy weird in all kinds of ways. |
| 1:49.8 | Some for better though a lot for worse. |
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