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Inside the Hive

Can the Subway Survive Corona, and Can the Public Survive the Subway?

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

News

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of Inside the Hive, co-host Emily Jane Fox sits down with Sarah Feinberg, the Interim President of the New York City Transit Authority, to talk all things transit in the midst of coronavirus: how to keep 51,000 workers and millions of riders safe in the midst of a highly contagious virus, how the agency can make money if people stay working from home forever, and how the Trump administration has failed to protect the American public. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Guys, it's Emily Jane Fox. I am here with my co-host Joe Hagen inside the hive.

0:10.4

Another week we did it, Joe, but I feel like maybe just barely this week.

0:15.0

You know I'm trying to just get through day by day and mainly grapple with

0:21.0

apocalyptic nightmares.

0:25.0

You know, ever since I read this article in the week that Matt Drudge put on the top of his headline a week ago,

0:32.0

the dark decade ahead by this writer Matthew Walter, who describes

0:37.8

he says, we are not witnessing the long-rumored revenge of nature but a way of life that is always that was always

0:44.3

unsustainable extinguishing itself. You know, gee that's not what I needed to get

0:52.0

through the night. That's a real kick in the pants. It's a kick in the pants. I feel like

0:58.1

You know on the one hand there are the myopic day-to-day news details that we read on Twitter and on our

1:05.4

Facebook feeds and the New York Times and then occasionally you pan back and

1:09.4

realize that we're in this sort of slow- moving tsunami of change that we can't quite get our hands around

1:16.4

and there's all these sci-fi visions come into my head.

1:20.9

You know, so I try to cling to silver linings like this recent news about, you know, coal burning way

1:29.8

way down and helping reverse some of the climate change that we've you know was another

1:38.4

nightmare scenario that we already had so you know that's how we get through day by day is with

1:45.4

grappling with the big picture and then with your small picture between your

1:49.6

four walls. How's your small picture going?

1:54.0

You know, it's actually not that bad.

1:56.7

You know, I have children, so on the one hand,

2:01.5

I'm running a small one-room school house it's a little bit like

2:05.9

little you're also wearing your daughter sweatshirt I'm gonna call you out on it I'm seeing

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