Bonus Episode: Pandemic America
Scene on Radio: Capitalism
Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
4.9 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode, host John Biewen and series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika discuss
the coronavirus pandemic and how the crisis, and the nation’s response to it, echo themes we’re exploring in our Season 4 series on democracy in the United States.
The season’s editor is Loretta Williams. Music by Lucas Biewen and Eric Neveux.
Photo: Durham, North Carolina, mayor Steve Schewel announces a stay-at-home order on March 25. Photo by Julia Wall, courtesy of the News & Observer.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Call Changer Eye. |
| 0:02.4 | Calling Changer Eye, human eye-occa, mobile. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey John! |
| 0:11.0 | Hey Changer Eye, how's it going in Philadelphia? |
| 0:16.0 | Ooh, you know, it's challenging. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.0 | You are Changer Eye Kumanika, I'm John Bewin. |
| 0:27.0 | We're the two guys making this season on this podcast for folks who want to know more, listen |
| 0:32.5 | to other episodes where we say more about who we are and what we're doing. |
| 0:37.6 | We are kind of interrupting scene on radio season 4 with this special coronavirus episode. |
| 0:46.4 | Tell the people where you are, Changer Eye. |
| 0:49.2 | Well, I'm in Philadelphia in my studio upstairs, which is also my office, daycare center, gym, library, |
| 1:01.2 | things where I cry and panic and things like that. |
| 1:06.2 | And I am in Durham, North Carolina in my makeshift studio. |
| 1:11.4 | Got a kind of a pillow fort surrounding me on a desk here in what is also the guestroom. |
| 1:18.8 | So we are practicing the social distancing thing, but we wanted to make this bonus episode |
| 1:25.2 | to really cut that distance a little bit and just get in touch with you all. |
| 1:29.3 | So I guess what we're doing is physically distancing the socially podcasting. |
| 1:35.2 | And you know, I just want to say, there's like a lot of information out here right now about |
| 1:38.5 | this crisis, including on podcasts. |
| 1:41.7 | So what we're not going to do is make like a big shift and just devote our show to the |
| 1:47.8 | virus and the biology of the virus and all this other stuff. |
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