Quick Fix: Building Trust in an Emergency
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Quick Fix is How To!'s new monthly exclusive for Slate Plus members where we dive deeper into our latest episode. (Not a member? Here's how to join!) Today: Courtney Martin continues her conversation with journalist (and former How To! host) Amanda Ripley about her newly revised book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why. They discuss a key component to emergency response: trust. When disasters strike communities with low trust in government agencies and officials, it's up to leaders to respond in ways that build trust, as well as serve and protect. Amanda reveals how some officials got it right.
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| 0:21.8 | Talk about genius. |
| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss. |
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| 0:35.2 | Hello, loyal Slate Plus listeners. |
| 0:37.0 | As a thank you for supporting the show, we're going to start releasing bonus how-to segments every few weeks. |
| 0:43.4 | The segment is going to be called Quick Fix. |
| 0:46.2 | Sometimes we're going to be solving smaller, more practical problems, maybe some hashtag life hacks, as my tween daughter likes to say. |
| 0:55.8 | And sometimes we're going to feature interesting bonus conversations that couldn't fit in our main episode, like today. In this week's |
| 1:02.2 | main episode, Amanda Ripley, author of The Unthinkable and a former how to host, mentioned the |
| 1:07.9 | critical nature of trust in the midst of disasters. So, of course, think about it. |
| 1:13.4 | As the public, we are so dependent on our leaders to tell us what's up, to tell us what we need |
| 1:18.4 | to do to keep our families safe, right? And on the other hand, leaders are dependent on the public, |
| 1:24.4 | on us, to really listen and follow instructions in these very precarious |
| 1:29.2 | moments. So when all of that breaks down, we are screwed. We wanted to spend some time talking |
| 1:35.8 | about trust, why it's dwindling, and what can be done to rebuild it. And there's no better |
| 1:40.3 | conversation partner on all of that than our very own Amanda Ripley. I wrote the original |
| 1:46.1 | version of the unthinkable 16 years ago. And so when I went back to revisit it, you know, |
| 1:52.4 | I was a little afraid of what I might find and would it hold up and with the whole idea of |
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