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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 700 - When the world is feeling overwhelming, don't watch the news 24/7.

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A whole helluva lot is going on right now. In America and around the world. It's overwhelming. Wars. Rumors of wars. Elections. Assassination attempts. And that's barely scratching the surface.

Whenever it gets like this, and it's been getting like this much more frequently lately, a real temptation exists to watch the news 24/7, but I implore you, don't do that. It only makes your anxiety worse.

Let me unpack and explain it.

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0:20.8

Sometimes this world can be extremely overwhelming.

0:27.1

And I get a sense right now that we are kind of on a hinge point where we are right on

0:37.5

the brink of way too much going on in the world at the same time.

0:44.8

I want to unpack and explain some of the big stories.

0:47.0

Obviously it's almost election day here in the United States.

0:50.8

Early voting is happening all over the country.

0:53.7

It just had elections in Brazil.

0:56.7

Lula won that race, which was a big deal.

0:59.4

But there's a lot going on.

1:01.7

Twitter was just purchased by Elon Musk, Kanye West continues to.

1:06.0

I was going to say lose is mine, but I don't want to be insensitive of somewhere in the

1:11.4

ballpark of losing is mine.

1:14.6

But there's just so much hate, so much violence, so much loss.

1:20.4

I just want to encourage you.

1:23.4

We are going to push through.

1:26.2

You don't have to take all of it in at the same time.

1:30.1

Let me give you some coping skills, some things that I do to help me get through hard times.

1:35.4

This is Sean King and you're listening to The Breakdown.

1:56.6

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