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On Point | Podcast

The Jackpod: The fullness

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty has been finding his own sense of spiritual fullness in poetry, inspired by philosopher Charles Taylor’s recent book, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Is crypto perfect?

0:01.9

Nope.

0:02.7

But neither was email when it was invented in 1972.

0:06.0

And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day.

0:12.1

Crypto is no different.

0:13.5

It's new.

0:14.2

But like email, it's also revolutionary.

0:17.6

With Crackin, it's easy to start your crypto journey with 24-7 support when you need it.

0:22.6

Go to crackin.com and see what crypto can be. Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:27.3

This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:35.6

I'm Megna Chakrabardi, and this is the Jack Pod, where on-point news analyst, Jack Beattie, helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

0:48.7

Hello there, Jack.

0:49.8

Hello, Magna.

0:50.4

We are at episode 61. It happens to be our final episode of 2024. So what's your

0:57.7

headline? Fullness. Fullness. Okay. Meaning what? Well, let me sidle up to it. You know,

1:09.6

like many Americans, I found if I were to come up with a single word, well, I could

1:15.1

come up with lots of them.

1:16.1

But one word I could come up with to describe my experience of this year, this political

1:21.6

year, is it was draining.

1:25.9

It was emptying. You just didn't, I felt after the election, I had

1:31.8

nothing left. Hope was gone. At the bottom of the cup, you could see despair. And there was just

1:40.2

a sense of emptiness that the country, you know, for the price of eggs, Donald

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