Hey everybody, so what you're about to hear is our first live broadcast of the United States of anxiety.

We're going to be doing it every Sunday evening at 6 PM Eastern.

You can stream it anywhere you want or you can continue to listen right here

on Mondays in the podcast feed so you'll hear some of your own responses to the

question we put out you'll hear some folks calling into the

show answering that question as well. Don't pick up your phones and call now because

we're not going to be answering yet, but we'll have more questions for you soon.

So sit back, enjoy, tweet at us if you want.

Here's our first live episode.

I'm Kywright and this is the United States of Anxiety, a show about the unfinished business of our history and its rip on our future.

Good evening everyone. It's a hard time and everyone's feeling it in different ways.

When you're talking about someone who was in the Senate for the length of time that he was and someone who was vice president, who on that national stage had more experience than that.

I am incredibly honored by this responsibility and

I'm ready to get to work. The question is, who are we as a nation? What do we stand for?

Most importantly, what do we want to be? The message of last week's Democratic Convention was as direct as it is aspirational.

This is the party of a joyously diverse America. Sure, the sort of

of patrician white guy at the top of the ticket might look a lot like the past, but he wants to lead

us into a future in which patriotism is all about celebrating and

legit enjoying the jumble of humans that make up a nation this large.

I mean those kids on opening night.

Can you see?

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