Pod Fatigue: How Coronavirus Lockdown Has Tested Friendships

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Are you sick of the friends and family you've been stuck with? Sam teams up with Anna Sale, host of the WNYC podcast Death, Sex & Money, to explore how our pandemic 'pods' are being tested by the coronavirus. In this episode, Sam digs into friendships under strain. Then, head on over to the Death, Sex & Money podcast feed for Anna's look at how two people stuck apart during the pandemic have fallen in love.
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0:00.0	So hi, this is Jordana Hokeman, and who do I have with me?
0:04.0	My name is Yen Burnett and I'm six years old.
0:07.5	And what do I do at NPR?
0:11.4	Um, you are an editor.
0:14.3	Uh-huh, why do I work?
0:16.3	Um, which bin a minute.
0:18.1	Yep, that's right.
0:19.2	And so when we're listening to NPR, what kinds of stories do we hear about?
0:25.2	Um, I hear about the weather and I hear about what's new about coronavirus
0:31.0	and if the vaccines are more effective.
0:35.1	You heard some news about a vaccine?
0:36.7	Yeah, um, the latest I've heard is a vaccine that's 95% effective.
0:43.4	That's pretty exciting.
0:44.8	Yeah.
0:45.5	What has this year been like at home with coronavirus?
0:49.0	Very, very tough.
0:50.4	Like tell me more.
0:51.9	I can't do anything really.
0:54.7	Mm-hmm.
0:55.6	It's very hard.
0:56.7	Mm-hmm.
0:58.2	What kinds of things make you happy seeing things like that news about a vaccine?
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