Keepers of the Year 2018

Radio Atlantic

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🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The first anniversary of Radio Atlantic this week coincides with one of the newsiest weeks of 2018. So we’ve decided to take the opportunity to lift our sights above the fog of news for a few minutes, and discuss the things that are most important to remember—the Keepers of the Year. We revisit some of the most memorable keepers of the show’s earliest months, and share reflections from our Atlantic colleagues. Links - “Nanette Is a Radical, Transformative Work of Comedy” (Sophie Gilbert, June 27, 2018) - Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Neil Postman, 1985) - “My Family's Slave” (Alex Tizon, June 2017 Issue) - “Complicating the Narratives” (Amanda Ripley, Medium, June 27, 2018) - “how to do nothing” (Jenny Odell, Medium, June 29, 2017) - “Philip Roth's final interview: 'Life can stop on a dime'” (Charles Mcgrath, Irish Times, January 22, 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The first anniversary of Radio Atlantic this week coincides with one of the newsiest weeks of 2018.
0:06.0	So we're taking the opportunity to lift up out of the fog of news and discuss those things that are most important to remember, the Keepers of the Year.
0:15.5	What from the past year do we most want to hold on to?
0:19.4	What should we take into the future?
0:21.8	This is Radio Atlantic. And I'm here with me in studio in DC.
0:45.0	What?
0:46.0	Is my esteemed co-host, Alex Wagner.
0:49.0	We've bent the time space continuum to allow us to be in the same room at the same time.
0:55.2	It is wonderful.
0:56.4	Miracles of physics.
0:57.9	Alex, July 21st is the first anniversary of Radio Atlantic.
1:03.7	You know, I was thinking that, why do I not remember that?
1:07.3	And I realize, because I was having a baby
1:10.7	on that exact day.
1:12.2	It does, it does the occasion as well.
1:15.0	It is because I was giving birth to a baby's son
1:19.0	at the same time that we collectively were giving birth to the podcast. That is right. And we're going to come back to that by the way.
1:25.0	In the second episode of Radio Atlantic I inaugurated the tradition of Keepers.
1:31.0	Yes and what a good tradition it is. And thank you. Usually
1:35.6	Keepers is asking listeners guests and Mystein Coe to answer the question
1:39.3	what at this moment in your life do you want to make sure to remember? When I first introduced it, if you remember,
1:45.6	I encouraged everyone to think of it as a little time capsule to their future selves.
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