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Notes from America with Kai Wright

Introducing 'Notes From America': New Name, Same Show

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

We’re inviting you into a more positive less anxious conversation. Notes from America with Kai Wright airs Sundays at 6 p.m. ET on public radio stations and YouTube.

Companion listening for this episode:

A Pre-Midterms Vibe Check (9/19/2022)An election is coming. Summer is over. And the vibe is…what? We open the phones to hear what’s on your mind–from democracy to baseball.

“The United States of Anxiety” airs live on Sunday evenings at 6pm ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts. To catch all the action, tune into the show on Sunday nights via the stream on www.notesfromamerica.org or tell your smart speakers to play WNYC.

We want to hear from you! Connect with us on Twitter @noteswithkai using the hashtag #NoteswithKai or email us at [email protected].

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Kai, so you may have noticed that your feed looks a little different right

0:06.4

now.

0:07.4

We gotta make over.

0:08.4

Don't worry, it's totally the same show just now with a new name and a new look.

0:14.8

And the reason for this is our show long ago outprew the anxiety focus of our old title.

0:21.4

That name fit our origin as a reporting project on the anxieties fueling the truck movement

0:26.8

and the response to it.

0:28.6

So we've evolved and we're about a lot more than that now.

0:32.2

We've been inviting you into intimate, honest, and good faith conversations about the

0:37.8

country we want to create together, and we wanted to better reflect that positive invitation.

0:44.4

It's also part of another exciting change.

0:47.6

Our show is now going to be distributed to public radio stations nationally.

0:52.4

We've been airing on WNYC here in the New York region for a couple of years now, and of

0:56.9

course, we have all of you listening from all over the world.

1:00.7

But we're excited to now invite public radio listeners from cities and towns all over

1:05.2

the country into our community.

1:07.3

Nothing changes for those of you who prefer to listen on podcast.

1:11.2

But remember, you can always catch the full live show by joining us at 6 p.m. Eastern

1:17.1

on Sunday nights.

1:18.8

You can watch it on WNYC's YouTube channel.

1:21.4

You can stream it at WNYC.org or you can now ask your local public radio station to

1:27.2

air it if they aren't already.

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