Summary
We’ve just barely made it to the other side of a year that took our collective breaths away. So more than ever we felt that this was the time to go deep on life’s rhythmic dance partner. Today we huff and we puff through a whole stack of stories about breath. We talk to scientists, musicians, activists, and breath mint experts, and try to climb into the very center of this thing we all do, are all doing right now, and now, and now.
This episode was reported and produced by Annie McEwen, Matt Kielty, and Molly Webster.
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Further reading:
Alice Wong’s book Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the 21st Century
Here’s a speech Alice gave when first referring to her body as an oracle.
And for more on ventilator allocation in NY State, check out this article by the Gothamist.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, I just want to play you a promo for a project that's coming that we are very |
| 0:05.3 | excited about starting next week actually. |
| 0:10.6 | This is the story of a man who changed your world. |
| 0:13.9 | Oh wow. |
| 0:14.9 | Let's see, I would have claimed this brother right here. |
| 0:19.2 | This dude's good god. |
| 0:20.9 | Why don't we have like three movies about this dude? |
| 0:23.8 | Record owner, lawyer? |
| 0:24.8 | I mean, he's like the vocational Magyver. |
| 0:27.9 | This is how America invades the world. |
| 0:32.2 | Like this is the greatest music of all time. |
| 0:36.2 | But then? |
| 0:37.2 | It's like, tooth. |
| 0:40.2 | Vanished. |
| 0:42.5 | Somebody pretending to be somebody that they're not. |
| 0:44.6 | I need to think about why, but when the shimo is telling me the story, all I could think |
| 0:49.0 | was, oh that's the white boy right there. |
| 0:51.2 | That's hilarious to me. |
| 0:52.2 | I don't know what he is talking about. |
| 0:54.2 | This looks like a black man to me. |
| 0:55.2 | I want you to see what I see. |
| 0:56.8 | Once, I was in a festival and some guy came up to me and he said, what are you? |
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