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The Lost Interviews pt. 3 / Max Haiven

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: we spin the never-before-aired-on-WNUR-because-it-was-the-start-of-covid interview from 3/25/20 with Max Haiven who had, at that time, just written the ROAR Magazine article, “No return to normal: for a post-pandemic liberation: Today, new forms of solidarity, mutual aid, and common struggle are emerging in the pandemic. How will they shape tomorrow’s struggles for a post-capitalist world?” Also, from behind the paywall we retrieve Chuck's poignant recollection of his long-lived romantic partnership that requires no state sanction. And the Question From Hell contest careens towards its dazzling fulfillment.

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0:00.0

The Take it down.

0:13.0

down!

0:14.0

Take it down! This is hell. Hell.

0:35.0

Yes, we told you so.

0:40.0

This is hell.

0:42.0

And it seemed like we were constantly telling. So this is hell.

0:43.1

And it seemed like we were constantly telling you so during those first few months that

0:47.4

stay-at-home orders during the beginning of the pandemic.

0:51.3

Those first few months revealed a lot about people, a lot about society and a lot about ourselves looking back and considering the

0:58.4

hopelessness of it all and considering we could not err in our own home station. W-N-U-R-F-M, Chicago Sound Experiment.

1:07.0

It's kind of surprising we actually dragged ourselves over here before there was even hope for a vaccine

1:12.3

and did a show every day.

1:14.4

On the other hand, what else was there to do three years ago?

1:18.5

In fact, technically, the only reason that people who work on this as hell were even allowed to be outside was as members of the media and to do our show.

1:27.0

Three years ago this week a stay-at-home order to protect us from any further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, was imposed upon the people of

1:35.2

Chicago and Illinois by our city and state governments.

1:38.6

Northwestern University where our home station is located immediately shut down the entire campus and the radio

1:43.9

station was put into an automated broadcasting setting mode whatever you want to

1:48.5

call it. For the next few months we could not air this is hell on Chicago Sound Experiment as this week is three years since the

1:56.4

pen the lockdown we are playing this is hell the lost early pandemic tapes featuring

2:02.3

conversations we had back in the first few weeks of the stay-at-home order that never before aired on W&U-R.

2:10.0

So far we played an April 2020 interview with Vij Kollin-Javati on climate change in the pandemic being the same thing.

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