Introducing: The United States of Anxiety
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Every so often, the What Next team wants to share another great podcast with our listeners. This time, it's The United States of Anxiety from WNYC. In its fourth season, host Kai Wright is figuring out how the intense debates happening during the 2020 election can be traced back to a key point in American history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Mary. Every once in a while I like to drop something in your feed, tell you about a new podcast that I'm loving that I think you should check out too. This is one of those times. The United States of Anxiety from Kai Wright and WNYC Studios, they just launched their fourth season. And what I love about this podcast is that it's an election podcast unlike any other |
| 0:23.3 | election podcast. That's because Kai breaks down the conversations that we're having right now |
| 0:28.5 | in the 2020 election about race, about the economy, and he traces the roots of those |
| 0:34.1 | conversations all the way back through history. So I'm going to let him take it from here. |
| 0:39.5 | He'll give you a little bit of their first episode. |
| 0:54.7 | Yes, he can't. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. I met. Hey, H, H, H, |
| 0:54.8 | H, H, |
| 0:55.7 | a, |
| 0:56.7 | BN. |
| 0:57.0 | Black, |
| 0:58.7 | M. |
| 0:59.0 | M. |
| 0:59.0 | M. |
| 0:59.0 | And the thing. |
| 0:59.2 | And the thing about Verneta is she grew up country. So I don't know if you have ever heard of this, but you can make snow cream, snow ice cream. And she told me all these rustic stories about stuff she did as a kid in Mississippi. Now, how they did it, don't ask me. |
| 1:28.0 | I was a little girl, but I remember it tasted good. |
| 1:31.4 | You could not pay me to eat some ice cream made from snow that fell from the sky any place |
| 1:37.5 | I have ever lived. |
| 1:38.2 | Kyle, you would have eaten this snow ice cream. |
| 1:40.3 | It was good. |
| 1:41.7 | I mean, my mom's pretty country herself, and I've spent a lot of time in the South, |
| 1:46.4 | so I can relate a little. |
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