The Lost Joys Of Talking To Strangers

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

With a lot of us stuck at home, trying to physically distance from each other, one part of daily life has largely disappeared: bumping into strangers. On today's show, Maddie talks with Yowei Shaw, co-host of NPR's Invisibilia, about the surprising benefits of stranger interactions. And Short Wave tries out QuarantineChat, a workaround to our current strangerless existence. (Encore episode)

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, Maddie Sifai here.
0:01.8	Quick note, we made today's episode last year with Yo-Way Shaw,
0:06.8	the now co-host of MPR's InvisibiliA podcast.
0:11.0	It's an episode about a surprising thing
0:13.1	I've missed during the pandemic.
0:15.5	Those fleeting, sometimes delightful interactions
0:19.2	with strangers.
0:20.9	I can't wait to bump into y'all again one day.
0:24.2	OK, here's the show.
0:26.6	You're listening to Shortwave.
0:29.4	From MPR.
0:31.2	Maddie Sifai here today with Yo-Way Shaw.
0:34.4	Yo-Way, welcome to Shortwave.
0:36.9	Hi, Maddie.
0:37.8	Thanks for having me.
0:39.8	So you have a story for us about a particular interaction
0:43.4	that's happening a lot less these days.
0:46.3	I do.
0:47.3	So recently, I heard about this app called Dialup.
0:51.4	It was created by these two artists, Max Hawkins and Daniel
0:55.1	Baskin, and they recently put out a new feature called Quarantine
0:58.9	Chat that randomly connects you to strangers
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