Hey everybody. What you were about to hear is our second live show. We've started making the United States of Anxiety live every Sunday, 6 PM Eastern time.

You tune in if you're here in New York City or in the New York area, tune in on the radio if you're anywhere on the globe

you stream it at WNYC.org or just tell your smart speaker to play WNYC and you know it's a really fun experiment we're engaging

because we just want to be able to talk to you as well as tell you stories so

check it out sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't We're figuring it out but give this a listen have fun and call us up tweet at us. Let's be in conversation

I'm Kywright and this is the United States of anxiety, a show about the unfinished business of our history and its grip on our future. Having is full to its capacity. I'm not sad. I don't want your pity. I want change.

To be young, gifted, and black. We want to come to show with our bodies that enough is enough.

He's taking on the swamp and when you take on the swamp the swamp fights back.

Our family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.

You, Jacob, justice, in one lifetime. Do Jacob justice on this level and examine your hearts. I did not watch any of the videos. This is sadly not the first time I've had to make that statement on our show in just the past few months.

I did not watch Jacob Blake get shot in the back in front of his kids. I also did not watch the footage surrounding Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17 year old boy. I didn't watch

him carrying around a gun and casually hanging out with cops before he

allegedly executed two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

And I'm not watching the violence in Portland, where last night a man who maybe was among the

crowd that showed up to confront Black Lives Matter protesters was also shot and killed.

And maybe all of this means that I'm not doing my job, I'm a journalist after all, but I think I've got

the story without taking in the snuff films. We are at a breaking point. The

compounding crises that we face can no longer be papered over or shrugged off or

even just endured in hopes that they'll eventually fade away.

Because even without all of this violence, it was a really hard week.

For one, I know the looming onset of school here in the New York and New Jersey area is on a lot of your minds

out there for educators and facility staff, parents and students.

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