Our Pandemic Year

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We take stock of a year that challenged us emotionally, culturally and politically. Sam talks to Hira Deol, a former contestant on Big Brother Canada, about what it was like to learn about the pandemic while sequestered away from the outside world. Plus, Sam chats with culture writer Anne Helen Petersen about the gradual return to our "normal" lives — and just how messy it's going to be.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Betty.
0:05.0	This week, one year out from the pandemic.
0:08.8	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:12.4	I'm Sam Sanders.
0:14.1	So most of us remember very clearly the day the coronavirus became real.
0:19.2	And for most people in North America, it was the same day.
0:22.6	March 11th or so.
0:24.2	But for a few people that day came later.
0:27.8	So when did you show up at the Big Brother House for season 8?
0:31.6	Like, what was the time?
0:32.6	Why, when did you show up?
0:34.1	OK, so I was taken away from the world, like kidnapped as I would like to joke about it,
0:44.2	on February 19, 2020.
0:47.8	This is Hira Dio.
0:49.6	My name is Hira Dio.
0:51.3	I was on Big Brother Canada season 8 last year.
0:56.0	Yeah, first let me start by saying that when I got taken, COVID wasn't really, like, I
1:02.2	didn't think much of it, you know, leaving the world.
1:04.9	I didn't really even think about it.
1:07.3	Big Brother, for those who do not know, it's this reality show where a group of people
1:11.9	who've never met live in a house with cameras everywhere.
1:15.8	They are recorded all the time and you can vote people out.
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