It's all politics at the Winter Olympics, plus 'This Is Dating'

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's hard to believe the Winter Olympics have begun in Beijing, our second COVID Games. Sam talks to NPR correspondent Emily Feng about the political implications of this year's Olympics, the crackdowns on activists, and diplomatic boycotts.

Then, Sam talks to Hiwote Getaneh and Jesse Baker, producers of the podcast This Is Dating, a show about first dates. They talk about what the show taught the two of them about love and dating and offer up some advice of their own.

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0:00.0	Our editor is coming soon, but I gotta say I spent the last like 20 minutes before I interview
0:06.7	listening to the NBC Olympics theme song.
0:09.7	People forget it was written by John Williams.
0:11.8	It's classic.
0:12.8	Hmm, I had no idea.
0:14.5	That one that da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da.
0:21.6	When you sing it like that, I do feel the dramatic flair that I associate with John Williams.
0:25.3	Don't you feel it?
0:26.3	Don't you feel it?
0:28.1	Hey y'all, this is Lam's Aunt Betty.
0:30.8	This week, the Winter Olympics in China and listening in our first dates.
0:36.3	Alright, let's start the show.
0:38.1	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:43.4	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:45.3	And I wish you a happy Olympics.
0:49.4	Here we are again just a few months after the last one, entering another Olympic Games
0:56.0	in another pandemic year.
0:58.7	With yet another chance to ask, why are we doing this again?
1:02.9	And also how exactly can I watch this?
1:05.0	Which app, what time, what paywall?
1:08.1	China is hosting the Winter Olympics this year.
1:11.0	And you know, the last time Beijing hosted the Games in 2008, things felt different.
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