Hope: How Do You Make It?
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We’ve all been there, that place where we feel hope slipping away. Maybe we’ve even lost hope. This hour we talk with people who’ve turned that around and made hope real, whether it’s through political activism, faith, music, or reading a life-changing novel.
Guests:
DeRay Mckesson, Lydia Hester, Serene Jones, Megan Stielstra, Common
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Anne. |
| 0:05.0 | The coronavirus is still spreading, still mutating, but vaccines are rolling out, |
| 0:11.0 | and for the first time in a while, it feels like there's reason for hope. |
| 0:16.0 | Unto the best of our knowledge this week and next, we're revisiting our special series on Hope. |
| 0:22.1 | After all it's happened, it feels more relevant now than ever. We hope you agree. Keep listening. Wisconsin Public Radio |
| 0:41.7 | It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:49.6 | When times are grim, when the future is uncertain, when you need more hope. Can you make it? And if so, how? |
| 0:58.2 | I've hoped because I know this just can't be the best version of the world that we can have. |
| 1:02.8 | And I think that that's real for a lot of people. |
| 1:06.1 | This is CNN breaking news. Violence erupting on the streets out St. Louis. |
| 1:11.6 | These incredible pictures coming in. |
| 1:13.6 | Police in ride gear firing tear gas to break up protesters angry over the shooting death of an unarmed |
| 1:18.6 | teenager. |
| 1:19.6 | 18-year-old Michael Brown. |
| 1:23.6 | Durey McKesson's path to hope began on the day a lot of people lost theirs. |
| 1:28.3 | Mike got killed on August 9th and I drove down to St. Louis in August 16th, |
| 1:35.3 | largely because I just wanted to see with my own eyes. |
| 1:41.3 | When I looked at CNN, it looked like the protesters were sort of wild. When I looked on Twitter, I looked like the police were really wild, and I just wanted to see for myself what was happening. |
| 1:50.0 | That's one police cruiser that is fully engulfed right now. |
| 1:55.0 | You can hear the explosions going on inside, whether it's... |
| 1:58.0 | Sorry, I just got hit by a rock. |
| 2:04.6 | And the second night I was in St. Louis was the first night that I was tear-guessed. |
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