Year-End Wrap: Big Tech Reckoning, Identity Politics, & Yanny vs. Laurel

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It's Friday. Sam rings like a bell wrapping up the year in news with NPR reporter Elise Hu and The Wall Street Journal film industry reporter Erich Schwartzel. Plus a call to professor Lilliana Mason about how politics and identity have become entwined. It's topped off with the best things that happened to listeners all year. Tweet @ NPRItsBeenAMin with feels.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, before we start the show, this week I have enlisted my colleague, my friend,
0:05.0	and the editor of this show, Jordana Hoekman, uh, and her son, Ian, to, um, well, they'll just take it from here.
0:15.2	Do you remember what show I work for?
0:19.1	It's been a minute.
0:20.7	And when we turn on NPR, what kinds of things do we hear?
0:23.8	Um, the Hugh about the weather forecast.
0:28.2	You hear about the weather forecast?
0:30.0	Yeah.
0:30.6	Didn't we learn about what is that, what's the newest Mars rover?
0:34.9	Inside.
0:36.1	Yeah, what's inside doing?
0:38.1	Hmm, sending message.
0:40.8	Showing pictures to Earth.
0:42.8	Showing pictures to Earth?
0:43.9	Yeah.
0:44.9	So that's the kind of cool story that we hear on NPR, right?
0:48.5	Yeah.
0:49.1	Yeah, do you like those kinds of stories we hear?
0:51.3	Yeah.
0:52.0	Yeah.
0:52.8	So what you know what we want to have people do?
0:55.3	Right.
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