Ep. 112: Knowing the News (3/3)
Simple
Tsh Oxenreider
4.3 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Wrapping up our deep-dive on staying informed without losing your mind… In part 3, Erin and I talk about the how. How do we keep up with things in a healthy, sanity-saving way?
Part 1 covered the What of news, part 2 covered the Why—the good reasons to keep up with it, and this final part gives you some practical how-tos. I hope you enjoy this new format as much as we do!
Links From This Episode:
- First in this series: Ep. 110—the what of Knowing the News
- Second in this series: Ep. 111—the why of Knowing the News
- The Simple Show on Instagram
- Erin’s blog, Design for Mankind
- Erin on Instagram and Twitter
- Tsh (me) on Instagram and Twitter
- Erin's post, How to Stay Informed (Without Getting Overwhelmed)—this served as a catalyst for this whole series
- For any links and codes from our lovely sponsors, head here
Our recommended resources to stay sanely informed:
- Politifact (though it's not always perfect, as this points out)
- Here's Erin's husband's history book—though we recommend any recent, well-researched history textbook
- Good Newspaper!
- AllSides
- Pantsuit Politics, Tsh's recommended political podcast (check out co-host Sarah on episode 1 of Women's Work, Tsh's other podcast!)
- NPR Politics podcast
- Good people to follow on Twitter: Dara Mathis, David French, Clint Smith, Richard Painter, Luvvie, Michael Wear, Deray, Elizabeth Bruenig, Jason Kander, Yashar Ali, David Fahrenthold, Tim Miller
- Find almost any newspaper in the world
- And find your local newspaper so you can subscribe!
Next week, we start a new series, this time with co-host Kendra. Get ready!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's a simple show. You've got episode 112. |
| 0:06.8 | Hi, I'm Tishawkson Rider. And I'm Erin Lachner. And on the show, we break down big ideas. |
| 0:11.9 | In this episode, we are wrapping up our series on staying informed without losing your mind. |
| 0:16.9 | Before we dive in, just a quick announcement, the absolute best way to catch every single simple show episode is to sign up for my weekly email five quick things. |
| 0:26.1 | It's just like it sounds. |
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| 0:31.1 | And it can be read in under a minute. |
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| 0:34.4 | So to make sure you get that email, go to the art of simple.net slash email and sign up. |
| 0:40.6 | I promise no spam, no random things you didn't ask for, just a weekly email from me with my favorites |
| 0:46.2 | from the week. |
| 0:47.1 | So that's the art of simple.net slash email. |
| 0:51.0 | All right, Aaron. |
| 0:52.1 | Well, we are wrapping this up. We have been talking about what it means to stay informed without losing your mind or your soul. We talked about the what, what it means to stay informed and what is news, really. We've talked about the why, the best reasons for staying informed. And now we are going to unpack the how, which is maybe what a lot of listeners are wanting us to get to. |
| 1:12.1 | How to stay informed in a healthy way. So what are your first thoughts? I have a lot. First of all, don't you feel so much calmer? Don't you feel like we're not going to lose our mind anymore? Right. I do too. This is like this is a good, healthy thing to do. It is. So I think when I have I think maybe five points here with the how. |
| 1:31.5 | And the first one is just, we touched on this a bit in the last episode, but creating a purpose |
| 1:35.9 | for why, right? For why all this do is why all of this consumption. And I like to consider |
| 1:42.3 | almost like a mission. What's the end goal here? |
| 1:45.1 | Is it to have something to talk about it tonight's dinner party? Totally fine, but you're going to be |
| 1:48.5 | reading for a different purpose if that is the case. Is it maybe to choose where to allocate |
| 1:54.2 | your time or your finances toward a better future? Is it just to gain greater empathy? I think |
| 2:00.3 | if we stop and choose wisely |
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