BONUS: Life In The Time Of Coronavirus
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4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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NPR host Sam Sanders and his team at It's Been A Minute put that question to their listeners and heard from people all over the world with ages ranging from 0 to 99.
Their stories will stay with you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Ari Shapiro. It's Sunday and we've got a bonus episode for you. |
| 0:04.0 | This is an episode that's kind of a time capsule of our lives right now. |
| 0:08.0 | It comes from our friend and colleague Sam Sanders, host of It's Been a Minute, |
| 0:12.0 | who asked NPR listeners a simple question. |
| 0:15.2 | What's this pandemic been like for you? |
| 0:17.6 | It's been a minute is a news and pop culture show from NPR. |
| 0:20.7 | The stories that they gathered from people all over the country and around the world |
| 0:25.1 | are going to stick with you. |
| 0:31.8 | So Sam Sanders will take it from here. |
| 0:37.4 | This is Catherine and Nate in Washington DC |
| 0:41.4 | and our baby son Sam who is 12 days old today. |
| 0:51.2 | Hey y'all from NPR, you're listening to It's Been a Minute. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm Sam Sanders. |
| 0:57.3 | In this week we are taking a step back from the news |
| 1:01.0 | and bringing you a slightly different kind of show. |
| 1:05.5 | Yeah, they probably don't want you breathing into the microphone though. |
| 1:09.8 | We say it all the time but this year has been unlike any other |
| 1:14.3 | and pretty much every way imaginable. |
| 1:16.5 | You're going to make funny noises into the microphone? |
| 1:18.4 | No. |
| 1:19.3 | The coronavirus has changed everything for us. |
| 1:22.3 | How we work, how we learn, how we socialize, how we breathe, how we love. |
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