Redux: The Writer's Resist, Part 2

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Dear, Advice, Sugar, Society & Culture, Cheryl Strayed, Steve Almond, Wbur, Boston

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🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 of "Dear Sugar Radio: The Writers Resist" at The Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon. They discuss how to counteract post-election cynicism with Zahir Janmohamed, writer and co-host of the podcast "Racist Sandwich," and they answer questions from the audience in rapid-fire fashion.

This episode was originally released on January 27th, 2017.

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0:00.0	Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.
0:19.8	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:25.2	Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your ears.
0:30.2	I'm Cheryl Strad.
0:32.2	I'm Steve Almond, this is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:43.2	Oh, dear someone, won't you please?
0:50.2	She has some bit of sweetness with me.
0:56.2	I check my mailbox every day.
1:03.2	For some bit of sugar that you'll send my way.
1:11.2	That's a beautiful Angela Freeman with Wonderly,
1:17.2	playing us into part two of our Dear Sugar Radio live in Portland,
1:24.2	the Aladdin Theatre.
1:29.2	It is the writer's resist special edition on this winter night in January.
1:36.2	That's right, January of 2017.
1:40.2	I was thinking a lot over the past few weeks about an odd story from my childhood.
1:47.2	When I was maybe four or five years old, my mom and dad sat me and my brothers down
1:53.2	and explained quite calmly that my dad might be going away for a few days
1:59.2	and that he might be going away to jail.
2:03.2	They explained to us that he was going to be holding hands with some other people
2:08.2	in front of Moffit Field, which is a large Air Force base to protest the war in Vietnam,
2:14.2	which we knew a little something about anyway.
2:17.2	We knew lots of people were being killed there.
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