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Life Kit

The Secret To Building Better Playlists

Life Kit

NPR

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

So you're planning the perfect candlelit evening — or the perfect road trip, or the perfect afternoon at home. Where do you start? A playlist, of course. NPR Music's Bobby Carter showed us how he crafts them.

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0:00.0

Hey there, LifeKit listener, I know we don't have to tell you 2020 has been chaotic.

0:05.3

The coronavirus pandemic has turned all our lives upside down.

0:08.6

Suddenly the straight forward parts of life, like going to the grocery store, felt scary

0:13.4

and uncertain.

0:14.9

Plans for school and work dramatically changed, not to mention the unbelievable amount of

0:19.2

loss.

0:20.2

And we know it's not over yet.

0:22.0

But through every twist and turn of this exceptional time, LifeKit has been here to be an ambassador

0:26.9

of sanity, from our coverage on coping with anxiety to finding virtual therapy, from confronting

0:32.6

microgressions at home to having tough conversations about race and identity in the workplace,

0:38.2

from caring for elders and midst of pandemic while remembering to care for ourselves.

0:43.2

Because everyone needs a little help being human, now more than ever.

0:47.2

So if LifeKit has helped keep you grounded this year, we have a favorite ask.

0:50.9

We want to continue to be your support system in the new year.

0:54.2

So please, if you have the means, one way to do that is to donate to your local public

0:58.4

radio station.

0:59.6

Just go to donate.mpr.org slash LifeKit.

1:03.4

Again, that's donate.mpr.org slash LifeKit.

1:07.4

And thanks.

1:09.3

This is NPR's LifeKit, I'm Andrew Limbong, reporter at NPR's Arts Desk.

1:14.0

Remember that movie high fidelity from 2000, the one with John Cusack that recently got

1:18.5

remade into a TV show on Hulu.

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