One Final Farewell

The Takeaway

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4.6 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Our host and our staff have remained dedicated to one thing: bringing you, the listeners, a quality news and information show. Unfortunately, in February, The Takeaway staff found out that WNYC executives planned to cancel the show. The last day of the show was June 2nd, 2023. No official press release or external communications from NYPR mentions the end of the show, so in this episode, we address it head on with our former executive producer and current Executive Editor for GBH News, Lee Hill. Then, to celebrate the end of the show, we heard from the incredible people who have been making the show, both past and present. We want to say to all of you, thank you for being apart of the conversation and our community. The work of public radio is daunting, challenging, and often unrewarded. So, that's why we want you to remember this podcast as our final farewell.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Takeaway. I'm Melissa Harris Perry. Thanks for being with us.
0:10.0	All right, go back with me to April 2008.
0:16.0	Just a few months earlier, the New York Giants won an epic Super Bowl.
0:25.6	Manning, lobs it, Boris, a long, touchdown New York!
0:30.6	The world was preparing for the Summer Olympics in Beijing.
0:36.6	Here they come down the track.
0:38.3	Usain Bolt sprinting ahead, winning by daylight.
0:42.3	George W. Bush was still in the White House.
0:44.3	Actually, I thought we're going to do fine.
0:46.3	Shows what I know.
0:48.3	But the real political story was the heated primary battle
0:51.3	between Democratic senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
0:56.0	We think that it's taken us into the future and we're...
0:59.0	Let's go win an election!
1:01.0	And I am here to report that my bet has paid off.
1:04.0	We are ready for something new.
1:06.0	And back in 2008, this is how Donald Trump talked about American politics.
1:11.6	I think she's going to go down at a minimum as a great senator. I think she is a great
1:16.5	wife to a president. And I think Bill Clinton was a great president.
1:22.6	And we didn't know it yet, but the country was on the brink of a near total collapse
1:28.6	of our housing and banking systems,
1:31.1	a collapse that would have global ramifications for decades.
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