Welcome to the United States of Anxiety
There Goes the Neighborhood
WNYC Studios and KCRW
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It's me, Kaira Wright. So it's been a while, but I just wanted to pop over into our feed here and let everybody know what I've been up to since we parted ways last spring. Well, besides missing bedstai and trying not to be a destructive awful gentrifier in my new neighborhood. Anyway, this is not about gentrification, but we do have a great new podcast that I want to tell you about. It's called the United States of Anxiety, |
| 0:22.4 | and it's another production between WNYC Studios But we do have a great new podcast that I want to tell you about. It's called The United States of Anxiety, |
| 0:22.3 | and it's another production between WNYC Studios and the Nation magazine, |
| 0:26.3 | just like there goes the neighborhood. |
| 0:27.8 | Now, obviously, we are in the midst of an unprecedented election. |
| 0:31.6 | Sometimes it feels like everybody has just lost their collective minds. |
| 0:35.5 | And honestly, particularly white people. |
| 0:38.0 | So on the United States of Anxiety, |
| 0:39.6 | we're trying to get to the bottom of it all. |
| 0:41.7 | We launch on Thursday, September 22nd. |
| 0:44.5 | That is soon. |
| 0:45.5 | So go, sign up on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:49.3 | And in the meantime, I'd like to play you a bit |
| 0:51.3 | of what we've got in store for you. |
| 0:54.7 | Today, Long Island is America's new major market |
| 0:58.0 | with the highest spendable income for household in the nation. |
| 1:05.6 | Late 50s, early 60s, we're out here, and it was a nice place to grow up. |
| 1:14.6 | It was great. You felt a real sense of community. My neighborhood growing up, I mean, everybody knew everybody. |
| 1:19.6 | I don't really know my neighbors. |
| 1:22.6 | I just worry about the younger people, because what have they got to look forward to any kids nowadays? |
| 1:30.1 | The American dream is dead. |
| 1:34.7 | Some of you are frustrated, even furious. |
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