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The Brian Lehrer Show

Your Misunderstood Places

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Politics, News, News Commentary, Wnyc, Radio, Npr, Arts, New, Lerer, Media, Bryan, Nyc, Daily News, York, Public

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As we study up on Greenland, we invite listeners to share what's misunderstood about where they're from.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Lera on WNYC and to end the show today with Greenland or is it Iceland in mind,

0:11.2

we want to invite your calls if you come from any place that you think is largely misunderstood.

0:17.7

Maybe we just heard a version of that with respect to the West Park Presbyterian Church.

0:22.4

What do people not get about wherever it is you're from and what's one thing about that place

0:29.5

that you would like to clear up? 212-433 WNYC, 212, 433, 9692.

0:39.3

What is, what do people not get about where you are from and what's one thing about the place that you would like to clear up?

0:50.4

This is your calls, if you come from any place that you think is largely misunderstood,

0:55.6

212-433, W-NYC, 433-9692. And this can be from the hyper-local, which I guess we were just

1:05.3

dwelling on. We've got two sides of how that's misunderstood in two different shows, but it can be other hyper-local

1:13.3

things like your misunderstood neighborhood or your misunderstood borough, hello, Staten Island,

1:18.7

or your local town to a whole country like Greenland. We're inviting your calls if you come

1:25.3

from any place that you think is largely misunderstood.

1:28.3

What do people not get about where you're from and what's one thing about the place that you would like to clear up?

1:35.3

212-433, WNYC, 433-9-692.

1:42.3

You know, there's a lot of talk and confusion over the status of Greenland, which is our

1:46.5

news hook here. I wonder if any Greenlanders yourselves are listening right now to call in.

1:52.2

212-433. WNYC, despite the headlines, hardly anyone not from there understand even who lives there, how it's governed,

2:02.3

even its size, thanks to the typical maps that we tend to see, the Mercator maps, I think

2:08.1

they're called, that make the polar regions look larger relative to areas farther south.

2:14.3

And we are and will continue to talk about Greenland and the president.

2:17.3

But right now, we want to

2:18.3

hear from you if you come from any place that you think is misunderstood. What do people not get

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