How has the way you have lived or related with other people changed since the pandemic started?

I actually got laid off so that that was a huge hit too, just how I was feeling about my career and everything like that.

I actually moved from Portland to Washington DC in the middle of the pandemic.

The pandemic made me reflect on how society is in terms of social inequality.

For me, I definitely feel like my empathy has increased in people.

I got a pandemic in. She is a little bit needy because I was home all the time during the pandemic.

They've had to be more deliberate with interactions with people.

Everyone has all this free time, but unless you reach out to someone, you're not going to hear from them.

And even now, that is kind of rolled over.

It's Notes from America with Kai, right? And that is me. Welcome to the show.

And this is our first show as a national radio broadcast.

So special. Welcome to all of you who are joining from public radio stations around the country.

Shouts to listeners in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio in Springfield and around Southern Illinois.

Shouts up to New Hampshire and the Catskills and upstate New York.

And just to everybody from everywhere who's with us for the first time.

And of course to those of you in the New York area who have been with us for a while now.

And a special shout to our listeners in Minnesota because my first guest is one of your very own.

Angela Davis hosts a call and show on Minnesota Public Radio every weekday.

And she joins me to take your calls this week.

Angela, thanks for helping us kick off this new era of our show.

Oh, thank you for the invitation. And hello from Minnesota. Hi, Kai.

All right. So we're going to talk tonight about the ways in which we have changed as individuals

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