Life in the Time of Coronavirus
It's Been a Minute
NPR
4.7 • 9.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
When we put that question to people, the answers we got depended a lot on where they were in life — if they were in school, if they had a job, if they had lost a loved one, if they were vulnerable to the virus. So in this special episode of It's Been a Minute, we'll hear from people of all ages, from all over the country — and world — about how their lives, from young to old, have changed forever.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is John Bell. I'm a band director at Germantown High School in Germantown, |
| 0:05.4 | what's that? |
| 0:06.4 | John Bell has been making this show a big part of his work. He says he wanted something |
| 0:11.3 | more for his students. |
| 0:13.2 | Something to help bring the kids together more than making music. |
| 0:16.4 | Listening to the podcast each week and thought, this best part of your week is a great idea, |
| 0:21.8 | so I borrowed it. |
| 0:23.4 | John started playing our best thing segment for his band classes and he'd ask his students |
| 0:28.4 | to share the best parts of their weeks as well. |
| 0:31.4 | College acceptance letters, getting drivers license, good test scores, siblings coming |
| 0:36.4 | home from college to visit, they get to know each other better than just come to class |
| 0:40.9 | each day and performing concerts together. It's a more personal connection that they didn't |
| 0:45.7 | have before. |
| 0:46.8 | Public radio is more than just the news. It helps you celebrate the good stuff in life, |
| 0:52.0 | too. |
| 0:53.0 | And like John Bell said, it helps build stronger communities. In high school band halls |
| 0:58.0 | and across the world. |
| 1:00.4 | Support this work. To get started with your donation to an NPR member station, visit |
| 1:05.2 | donate.npr.org slash SAM. This lifelong band nerd. Thanks you. |
| 1:12.9 | This is Katherine and Nate in Washington DC and our baby son, Sam, who is 12 days old today. |
| 1:35.1 | Hey y'all from NPR, you're listening to It's Been a Minute. I'm Sam Sanders. |
| 1:47.6 | This week we are taking a step back from the news and bringing you a slightly different |
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