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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Election results, but with context; making a metaverse; and the literary pioneer we all forgot.

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0:00.0	Republicans deliver a political shockwave.
0:05.0	The takeaways from last night's thumping.
0:08.0	Tuesday night was billed as an election smackdown with Democrats on the ropes.
0:13.0	But that hot take was notably incomplete.
0:16.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:19.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone. Also, Facebook's newly envisioned
0:22.9	March into the Metaverse is derived from science fiction. Mark Zuckerberg seems to have read
0:28.6	very selectively, like a lot of his fellow tech bros. They read the books for the gadgets. It's
0:34.9	like reading Playboy for the articles. And we talk to Paul Oster, whose new book about Stephen Crane traces the way he changed
0:43.1	the way we tell stories and why he needs to be remembered and re-read. He was a comet who flashed across
0:51.2	the sky and then he disappeared.
0:55.6	It's all coming up after this.
1:04.2	From WNYC, New York, this is on the media.
1:05.5	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:12.3	Tuesday was Election Day in some parts of the country, and all over the media and in the run-up,
1:20.9	the setup was clear. It was going to be a referendum on Biden, a report card, a spine-tingling portent.
1:27.6	Oh, why fight the prevailing lexicological trend? It was a hell of good bell ringer.
1:33.9	As President Biden's falling approval rating takes a toll on his own party, a worrying trend for Democrats ahead of Tuesday's bellwether election.
1:37.1	A bellwether for the midterms, whether or not Democrats are going to be successful
1:40.3	or Republicans are going to retake their majorities.
1:43.4	The peanut gallery was all a buzz.
1:45.6	That New Jersey governor's race? Wow. Republican nominee Jack Chudorelli and incumbent Phil Murphy
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