Episodes We Love: The Writers Resist, Part 1
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On November 9th, 2016 -- the day after Donald Trump became America's President-elect -- the Dear Sugar inbox was flooded with emails asking some version of the question, "How do we move forward as a nation from here?" The Sugars bring that question before an audience at The Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon. This episode was originally published on January 20th, 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:17.0 | Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Cheryl Strait. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Steve Almond, this is Dear Sugar Radio. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh dear someone, won't you please? |
| 0:42.0 | She has some bit of sweetness with me. |
| 0:49.0 | I check my mailbox every, every day. |
| 0:56.0 | For some bit of sugar that you'll send my way. |
| 1:08.0 | That's Angela Freeman and Wonder Lee. |
| 1:14.0 | Welcome everyone. |
| 1:18.0 | Thanks for coming out. |
| 1:19.0 | We're here tonight for really a special recording of Dear Sugar Radio Live. |
| 1:24.0 | It's part of this big thing called Writer's Resist. |
| 1:32.0 | How many of you in the room are writers? |
| 1:36.0 | How many of you love someone who is a writer? |
| 1:42.0 | As you all know, this past election season was a brutal one. |
| 1:47.0 | Many of us woke up, or maybe never went to sleep the night of the election in a state of despair, fear, and befuttlement, and anger. |
| 1:59.0 | Very quickly everyone I know started saying what next, what do we do? |
| 2:06.0 | One of those people is the wonderful poet Aaron Ballou. |
| 2:09.0 | She sent me an email immediately and said we need to do something. |
| 2:14.0 | Obviously writers and artists of all stripes have always made a contribution to the political life of this nation and indeed to the health of our democracy. |
| 2:25.0 | We need to have collectively some kind of answer. |
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