Brian Lehrer Weekend: How 2020 Changed Us; The AIDS Epidemic & the Black Community; Deep Friendship
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
How 2020 Changed Us; (First) | The AIDS Epidemic and Black Communities (Starts at 33:20) | In Praise of Deep Friendship (Starts at 1:02:15)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Brian Lehrer here, up next Brian Lehrer weekend. |
| 0:02.9 | Three of our favorite segments from the week packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend. |
| 0:07.5 | So enjoy and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org. It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. Is it possible that we're |
| 0:38.7 | learning some of the wrong lessons about American culture from the pandemic. |
| 0:43.7 | In a New York Times op ed, |
| 0:45.4 | NYU sociologist Eric Kleinenberg writes |
| 0:47.8 | that people tend to talk about an epidemic of loneliness |
| 0:51.6 | that the pandemic spawned. |
| 0:54.0 | Kleinenburg says, it's really a loss of trust we should be talking about. |
| 0:59.0 | That theory is part of a new book by Kleinenburg called 20, One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Change. |
| 1:07.0 | The City is New York. |
| 1:08.9 | We'll hear about some of the Seven People and talk about what changed that we should still be talking about in |
| 1:14.8 | 2024 trust and other things. Yes, 2020 the year that brought an economic crash |
| 1:21.2 | precipitated by COVID-19, 2020, the year George Floyd was |
| 1:25.9 | murdered by a police officer, 2020 the year that President Biden first went |
| 1:31.0 | head-to- head with Donald Trump. |
| 1:33.0 | Eric Kleinenberg is also director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, and again the book title is |
| 1:39.2 | 20, one city, seven people, and the year everything changed. |
| 1:44.6 | Eric, thanks for coming on. |
| 1:45.8 | Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 1:47.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:47.6 | It's nice to be here. |
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