Beyond the Echo Chamber
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We live, work and play in Red and Blue tribal bubbles, filling our social media feeds with news sources that affirm our place in that order, rather than challenging it. What is that isolation doing to us? What can we do to escape it?
Guests: Charlie Sykes,Ken Stern,Meredith Clark,Nancy MacLean,Jeanne Safer,Richard Brookhiser
Interviews: How The Right Lost Its Mind And Charlie Sykes Lost His Faith In The GOP,A Former NPR Executive Leaves His Liberal Bubble Behind,The Blend Of Jokes and Social Justice That Is Black Twitter,What Does An Obscure Economist Have To Do With The Koch Brothers?,You Don't Have To Vote Like Me To Love Me
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| 0:00.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:01.5 | I'm Anne Strange Champs. |
| 0:03.9 | Most of us live in a political bubble. |
| 0:06.6 | What happens when it bursts? |
| 0:09.9 | My show began at 8.30 in the morning. |
| 0:12.0 | It was March 28. |
| 0:15.8 | Conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes. |
| 0:19.4 | I did not expect that he was going to call in. |
| 0:24.0 | Joining me on the line is Donald Trump. Good morning, sir. |
| 0:27.9 | Hi, Charlie. |
| 0:28.8 | We began the conversation rather friendly. |
| 0:31.9 | Congratulations on the birth of your grandson yesterday. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah, that's so nice. |
| 0:36.3 | And I asked him, wouldn't it be a good way to start off your Wisconsin campaign by saying |
| 0:41.5 | that wives should be off limits? |
| 0:43.6 | Putting aside his personal attacks on the looks of Ted Cruz's wife, could this be something |
| 0:50.4 | we could agree on? |
| 0:52.0 | And his response was, he started. If he didn't start it, it would have never happened. |
| 0:56.9 | But he started it. |
| 0:59.2 | I expect that from a 12-year-old bully on the playground. |
| 1:02.6 | Not somebody who wants the office held by Abraham Lincoln. |
| 1:05.4 | I asked him at one point, do you know that I'm never from? |
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