The Songs That Helped ACLU Staffers Survive 2020
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🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the ACLU, this is at Liberty. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Molly Kaplan, your host. |
| 0:10.2 | How to sum up 2020? |
| 0:12.7 | Uncertain? |
| 0:14.7 | Stressful. |
| 0:16.2 | Hard. |
| 0:17.3 | If you're like some ACLU staffers, one note of help came quite literally from listening to music. |
| 0:23.8 | This episode, we asked a few staffers to tell us which song provided the service of |
| 0:28.9 | escape or inspiration or just pure comfort. It's been a long year, so we hope you enjoy a momentary departure from our usual talk of the latest civil rights and civil liberties battles in service of the songs that got us through this year. |
| 0:46.3 | So without further ado, I present to you our 2020 Songs of the Year. |
| 0:53.6 | Emerson, hello. |
| 0:55.6 | Molly Kaplan, how are you doing? |
| 0:57.1 | Hello. |
| 0:58.1 | Can you introduce yourself and say what you do here at the ACLU? |
| 1:02.3 | My name is Emerson Sykes. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm a staff attorney at the ACLU and your former host. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm excited to have you here and to have it be on a topic that is fun, I'll say. |
| 1:14.6 | Earth shattering, weighty. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, all of the above. |
| 1:18.7 | Can you tell us what your song of 2020 is and who did the song? |
| 1:25.1 | The song is Magic in the Air, |
| 1:27.9 | and it's by a group from Ivory Coast named Magic System. |
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