Episode 263
Everything is so fragile right now
Bad news keeps coming back to haunt us — even pumpkin spice.
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Today was the first day back to school for a bunch of kids, and Zoom crashed. California is burning again. Police shot another Black man on camera. And a man in China was reinfected with COVID-19. The bad news keeps coming back to haunt us. Even pumpkin spice.
Here’s a list of everything we talked about today:
- “Remote Learning Is a Bad Joke” from The Atlantic
- The latest on protests in Wisconsin after police shot Jacob Blake from NPR
- “First coronavirus reinfection documented in Hong Kong, researchers say” from the Washington Post
- “Pumpkin Spice Hard Seltzer Is Here” from October
- Finally, this good girl:
None of us is as smart as all of us.
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The team
Kai Ryssdal
Host
Marissa Cabrera
Senior Producer
Bridget Bodnar
Senior Producer
Tony Wagner
Digital Producer