The 'reddit bro' vs. the 'wife guy'; plus, Fat Bear Week!

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Tuesday night, JD Vance and Tim Walz faced off in their first debate. Host Brittany Luse is joined by NPR's national race and identity correspondent Sandhya Dirks and political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben to discuss how the candidates display competing brands of white masculinity.

Then, Fat Bear Week is back! The annual March Madness-style bracket of the fattest bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park is in full swing after a rocky start. In honor of Fat Bear Week, Brittany revisits a journey through time to unpack what bears mean to us — and why they're family, friend and foe all at once.

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0:16.0	Hello, hello.
0:20.0	I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about
0:25.1	what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. This week we are connecting the dots between Podcast Bro's Class and Wife Guys. I know I know how are all of these things connected?
0:45.6	Well we're going to find out with NPR political correspondent Danielle Kurtzlavin
0:50.0	and race and identity correspondent Sandia Dirk's.
0:54.0	Danielle, Sandia, welcome back to it's been a minute.
0:57.0	Yay, I'm always happy to be here.
0:59.0	So happy.
1:00.0	Oh, so happy to have you both, and thank you so much for taking time out of what I know is a busy week.
1:04.1	But in one sentence, what was your biggest takeaway from the debate?
1:08.4	It was kind of boring.
1:09.9	Like you know if you're gonna tell so many half truths or untruths I would like at least to be
1:16.4	entertained? I was gonna use the word boring too. I mean it was a boring debate in the most
1:20.5	non-boring of times. It was so, the tone was so subdued,
1:26.0	and nothing about American politics is subdued right now.
1:29.0	I had a really good point.
1:30.0	Nothing about American politics is a dude right now.
1:32.6	Nope.
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