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Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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About the show: In a Presidential election cycle big on negativity and short on discussion of issues, anxiety is proving to be a dominant theme -- over the economy, national security, and indeed, what it means to be an American in the 21st century. This podcast brings the voices of people trying to hold on to their piece of the American Dream and others who are looking to build one. The United States of Anxiety gives you an wide-open window into the polarizing economic, social and political ideas that have people on the edge of their seats during this unprecedented election cycle. The United States of Anxiety is hosted by Kai Wright and produced by WNYC Studios & The Nation. Listen to more shows from WNYC Studios: http://wny.cc/yzc4304odXpListen to more shows from The Nation: http://apple.co/1V85l3I WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics, Radiolab, Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin and many more.

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0:00.0	Today, Long Island is America's new major market with the highest spendable income to household in the nation.
0:10.0	Late 50s, early 60s, we're out here and it was a nice place to grow up.
0:17.0	It was great. You felt a real sense of community.
0:21.0	My neighborhood growing up... real sense of community.
0:23.3	My neighborhood growing up, when everybody knew everybody.
0:27.7	I don't really know my neighbors.
0:30.5	I just worry about the younger people because what have they got to look forward to any kids nowadays?
0:37.0	The American dream is dead.
0:41.0	Some of you are frustrated, even furious, and you know what? You're right.
0:47.0	We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration.
0:57.0	Any immigrants from South America of Central America, what's going to happen? You always
1:05.6	going to need the immigrants. But you cannot try to shove it down people's throats.
1:11.6	We're a country of immigrants and that's why America is so great and that's why Trump's going to make it great again.
1:18.0	God bless the United States of anxiety anxiety anxiety anxiety anxiety anxiety anxiety
1:27.1	anxiety anxiety anxiety. anxiety. I'm Ky right and welcome to the United States of Anxiety, a podcast produced by
1:36.4	WNYC studios and the Nation magazine. Long before Donald Trump's remarkable
1:41.4	revolution in the Republican Party,
1:43.2	before build that wall became a stadium chant,
1:45.9	or for that matter, before most Americans had ever heard of a Democratic socialist.
1:50.4	Before all of that, an odd scene started playing out on highways across the country.
1:55.0	In San Diego, Dallas, Minnesota, and on Long Island,
2:00.0	people would gather on overpasses and as the traffic rushed by beneath them
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