Call-In Special: Across the Aisle
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a special post-election live call-in episode of the United States of anxiety. WNYC's election election President. I'm Anna Sale, host of Death, Sex and Money, the podcast from WNYC studios. |
| 0:26.0 | And for the next hour, we're going to be taking your calls specifically around one question. |
| 0:31.4 | What do you want other Americans to understand about you that they don't? |
| 0:35.0 | Our number is 212 433 WNYC. That's 212 433 962 or you can tweet at WNYC or at death sex money use the hashtag |
| 0:47.1 | other Americans. This is the last in a series of post-election Collins specials |
| 0:52.4 | that we've been hosting at WNYC. |
| 0:54.8 | And the reason we're asking you this question is because so much of this election and its aftermath |
| 1:00.0 | have been fueled by a feeling of alienation. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm coming to you live from KQED in San Francisco. |
| 1:06.6 | I live across the bay in Berkeley. |
| 1:08.7 | Before that, I lived in New York City. |
| 1:10.6 | So this election result is not one that I was prepared for. But if you listen to |
| 1:15.8 | death, sex, and money, you know I'm from West Virginia. So I know about the layers of |
| 1:20.6 | resentment that have built up over decades, a sense of feeling left out or |
| 1:25.3 | looked down upon and frustrated with a stalled economy. But for those of you |
| 1:30.6 | expecting another outcome in this election who believed Donald Trump could never actually be President of the United States, their shock, their sadness and anger. |
| 1:40.0 | What you thought you knew about who we are as Americans, you no longer know for sure. And now it feels like we're digging in for a long |
| 1:48.1 | pitched battle about who gets to feel like they belong in America in 2016. So tonight we're going to try to chip away |
| 1:56.2 | at that pervasive sense of alienation. The question again, what do you want other Americans |
| 2:01.9 | to understand about you that they don't? The numbers |
| 2:05.1 | 212 433 WNYC 212 433 9692. I want to get to as many calls as possible tonight. I'm hoping that we'll hear from people |
| 2:15.0 | across the country. We've already been asking our listeners on death, sex, and money what they want |
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