Hey y'all, Sam here.

So, as 2020 comes to a close, I have been thinking a lot about all the things that helped me get through this crazy year.

Chocolate covered almonds, shorts and pants with elastic waistbands, Netflix, countless pints of ice cream.

But when I really think about it, one of the things that I absolutely could not have survived 2020 without is public radio.

Every day this year, through the protests and the pandemic and the recession, I have listened to an NPR podcast or an NPR member station, or I have watched a tiny desk concert.

So, I give to multiple NPR member stations, because I want public radio to be around next year as well.

Listeners, I am asking you right now to give to the NPR member station of your choosing, because I bet that you relied on public radio a lot in 2020, just like me.

When you give to your NPR member station, that support flows through the entire public radio system to keep all of us, including this little little show on the air.

So, go right now to this link, donate.npr.org slash Sam, and we will get through the rest of this year and 2021 together.

Thank you.

Hey out, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR. I'm Sam Sanders.

So, this week and next week, we are stepping back to taking this dumpster fire over a year in all of its dumpster fire glory, and take stock of how the pandemic has affected everything, including the things that we created, consumed, and enjoyed throughout 2020.

And y'all, it's more than just Netflix trust me.

You know, so many of us were stuck at home for much of this year, but that did not mean that the culture, capital C, came to a complete standstill.

If anything, a strange kind of internet culture flourished in its own weird way, and it came to reflect the horror and the absurdity of this year.

I think it's this digital hellscape that we all sort of entered in 2020.

And as guests this episode, he calls the phenomenon, quarantine culture.

And he says, quarantine culture might have started way back on March 11th, when the whole country was just on the cusp of a nationwide shutdown.

And where else would quarantine culture start? But on the view.

Movie Goldberg, you know, is she's at her usual seat up the head of the table at the view.

He says, welcome to the view, y'all. And then she just keeps saying welcome to the view, welcome to the view, welcome to the view, welcome to the view, like over and over again.

And the camera just pans around to empty chairs in the studio audience.

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