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Thank You Letter from 2020-07-22T07:01
Eleven-year-old Emerson Weber has something of a hobby: she loves to write letters. And one day, she decided to write one to the person who makes her hobby possible -- her mailman. And, to her surp...
ListenPredicting A Pandemic With Ed Yong from 2020-07-17T07:01
Science journalist Ed Yong covers the pandemic for The Atlantic. But he also saw it coming, writing a story two years ago predicting the issues that we’re seeing now in the U.S. He reflected on hin...
ListenThe Show Must Go On from 2020-07-15T07:01
As the pandemic shuttered stages across the country, playwright Qui Nguyen wanted to give schools a little bit of hope. He took his popular play, She Kills Monsters, and adapted it for video confer...
ListenVoting Rights And Wrongs With Sam Levine from 2020-07-10T07:01
American democracy is complicated, especially when it comes to voting. Sam Levine is a journalist covering voter rights at The Guardian. As the 2020 election approaches, Sam will help us understand...
ListenRubber Bullets from 2020-07-08T07:01
Derrick Sanderlin was well-acquainted with the San Jose police department – he volunteered his time to train police on implicit bias. Then, he found himself at a protest where that very same police...
ListenEducation: Should You Sue Your College? from 2020-07-03T07:01
As COVID settled over college campuses, most schools moved students’ education entirely online. It was a necessary move, designed to prevent the spread of the virus. But American college tuition no...
ListenEducation: Homeroom from 2020-07-01T07:01
Teaching high school during a pandemic has been near impossible. Educators are in crisis mode. One English teacher in Flint, Michigan, has spent the last few months trying to teach remotely and wor...
ListenEducation: Pre-K In A Pandemic from 2020-06-29T07:01
When stay-at-home orders hit, daycares and preschools across the country had to figure out new protocols. Some shut down. Some laid off staff. Some reopened to serve essential workers with new safe...
ListenThe Science Of Happiness With Laurie Santos from 2020-06-26T07:01
Dr. Laurie Santos is something of an expert at being happy. Her class “Psychology and the Good Life” became the most popular class at Yale University. She also hosts a podcast called “The Happiness...
ListenDeaf Anxiety from 2020-06-24T07:01
Now that many of us are in isolation, we have to use technology to communicate with each other. But that technology isn’t always built with everyone in mind. On today’s episode, we talk about what ...
ListenOn The Front Lines from 2020-06-22T07:01
For many of us, our weekly trip to the grocery store is the most dangerous outing of the week. The place we’re most likely to be exposed to coronavirus. Today on Telescope, we spend some time with ...
ListenBlack Lives: Juneteenth With Soledad O'Brien from 2020-06-19T07:01
Today is Juneteenth. It’s a holiday that marks the end of slavery in America, and for many it represents a second day of independence. As the mass protests against police brutality and systemic rac...
ListenBlack Lives: Tik-Toking Your Wokeness from 2020-06-17T07:01
Social media’s role during this moment -- as we face two pandemics in the name of COVID and racism -- is cyclical. It’s both impacting and being impacted by the various tragedies that have unfolded...
ListenBlack Lives: Two Pandemics from 2020-06-15T07:01
Two activists share their journeys of leading anti-racism protests in response to the killing of George Floyd. KC Short -- an Army veteran based near San Diego -- quickly learned the ins and outs o...
ListenPride And Black Lives With Zach Stafford from 2020-06-05T07:01
Zach Stafford rose like a comet through the media, going from Huffington Post blogger to Editor-In-Chief of The Advocate magazine in just a few short years. As a Black gay man, Zach’s identity has ...
ListenOlympians On Hold from 2020-06-01T07:01
Olympic fencers Ysaora Thibus and Race Imboden were set to compete in the most important matches of their careers at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. But when the coronavirus postponed the G...
ListenIgnoring The Experts With Joel Stein from 2020-05-29T07:01
As we all prepare for summer, we’re trying to decide what is safe and what isn’t safe to do. Joel Stein has been reporting on wealth disparities, risk analysis, and whether or not we trust experts ...
ListenKorean Baseball from 2020-05-27T07:01
Live sports is one of the many things that’s halted during the pandemic. But recently ESPN the got rights to air South Korean baseball games. Dan Kurtz, a superfan, explains why the KBO is worth wa...
ListenHot Tub Royalty from 2020-05-25T07:01
During the coronavirus pandemic, most non-essential business have taken a hit. But there are always exceptions. And Todd Thornbury’s hot tub business in Southern California happens to be one of the...
ListenSlowing Down With Sam Sanders from 2020-05-22T07:01
When Sam Sanders isn’t hosting NPR's "It’s Been A Minute," he’s watching TV and movies, reading books, and doing research for interviews with high profile celebrities. In quarantine, all of it has ...
ListenHome School from 2020-05-20T07:01
Layla Besson is a special education teacher, and a mother of three boys. She’s well-organized, resourceful – knows how to juggle. But then, the lockdown started. And everything fell apart.
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Honeysuckle With Greyson Chance from 2020-05-15T07:01
Singer-songwriter Greyson Chance was preparing for one of the most exciting moments of his career, which included a world tour and a new album. When the pandemic hit, he felt like all his momentum ...
ListenDad Diaries from 2020-05-13T04:01
Scott Duvall and his family, from Athens, Georgia, have been sheltering in place since before the stay at home order came down from Governor Brian Kemp. And in the weeks that followed, Scott realiz...
ListenCOVID Boyfriend from 2020-05-11T07:01
As the host of the podcast "The Lonely Hour," Julia Bainbridge has been studying loneliness in American life since well before we began isolating ourselves. When the pandemic began, her dating life...
ListenThe Big Picture With Nelufar Hedayat from 2020-05-08T07:01
Nelufar Hedayat wants to change the world one small step at a time. As the correspondent for Doha Debates and host of the Course Correction podcast, she’s personally taking on some of the largest i...
ListenThis Will End from 2020-05-06T07:01
In Los Angeles, Rabbi Rose Prevezer and is helping young people reimagine what Jewish life could look like for them. Now, as coronavirus forces us to reimagine our daily life, there’s an even great...
ListenTruth And Lies With Bassem Youssef from 2020-05-01T07:01
Nine years ago, Bassem Youssef skyrocketed to fame as Egypt’s most famous satirist – the “Jon Stewart of the Middle East." Three years later, he was forced to flee, with death threats hanging over ...
ListenGetting Hitched On Nintendo Switch: An Animal Crossing Wedding from 2020-04-29T07:01
“Animal Crossing” is one of the many Nintendo games blowing up right now during quarantine. Sharmin Asha and Nazmul Ahmed got obsessed with it -- around the same time they had to decide to cancel t...
ListenStranded At Sea from 2020-04-27T07:01
Addison Proctor and his family left their lives behind to sail across the Pacfic, but the world shut down right as their trip began. Now, they are anchored off the coast of Florida, with hurricane ...
ListenThe Future Of Sports With Mina Kimes from 2020-04-24T07:01
Sports in America and around the world are on hold, but that hasn’t stopped ESPN Daily host Mina Kimes. In the absence of the NBA playoffs and March Madness, she’s turned her focus to the plight of...
ListenWithout Shelter from 2020-04-22T09:27
Theo Henderson has lived outside a recreation center in Los Angeles’ Chinatown for the past seven years. Since the outbreak started, Theo’s been trying to stay far away from anyone who might have c...
ListenSober Together from 2020-04-20T07:01
David and Jason are brothers. They describe themselves as opposites. David lives in Florida, has 4 kids and a partner. Jason, who is six years younger, is the cool uncle. He lives in Nevada and spe...
ListenTracking The Virus With Alexis Madrigal from 2020-04-17T07:01
In early March, the Trump administration claimed that a million COVID tests were available, but nobody was keeping tabs on the results. Alexis Madrigal, Atlantic staff writer and co-founder of the ...
ListenClosing Shop from 2020-04-15T07:01
In Charleston, West Virginia, Kin Ship Goods is more than a shop — it’s an institution. In the middle of March, as Covid-19 came closer and closer, West Virginia still hadn’t reported its first cas...
ListenA Life's Work, On Hold from 2020-04-13T07:01
Dr. Anthony Lazzara dedicated his life to caring for destitute, sick children in a small village in Peru. But the coronavirus trapped him on the wrong continent, and now he is stuck, far away from ...
ListenVirtual Goodbye from 2020-04-10T07:01
When Hue-Tam canceled her trip to Vietnam because of the coronavirus, she had no idea what she would miss.
Hue-Tam’s family is scattered around the globe, from Vietnam to France, and now Califo...
Comedy On Lockdown from 2020-04-08T07:01
Chris Garcia is a comedian and TV writer living in LA. Before COVID-19, he was performing standup in front of live audiences two to three nights a week. But now, he’s got to find more creative ways...
ListenHollywood Story from 2020-04-03T07:30
After several years of working non-union gigs as a set dresser for TV shows, Thomas earns security and steady work after joining a union. But when coronavirus brings show production to a screeching...
ListenStreet Performer from 2020-03-30T07:00
A local legend, the mysterious Pied Piper of Pasadena is a man who rocks out hard in his car, with the windows down, while playing songs on his recorder. He was a fixture in the lives of many Angel...
ListenDrive-In Concert from 2020-03-27T07:00
After their residency was shut down because of coronavirus, a group of musicians found a clever way to still perform for an audience: they organized a "drive-in concert" in the parking lot of a Von...
ListenImperfect Timing from 2020-03-25T07:00
In this episode, we'll hear from Stacy. She and her husband have been trying to have kids for years which hasn't been easy. They're currently on their fourth round of IVF - a process that depends o...
ListenImperfect Timing from 2020-03-25T07:00
In this episode, we'll hear from Stacy. She and her husband have been trying to have kids for years which hasn't been easy. They're currently on their fourth round of IVF - a process that depends o...
ListenImperfect Timing from 2020-03-25T07:00
In this episode, we'll hear from Stacy. She and her husband have been trying to have kids for years which hasn't been easy. They're currently on their fourth round of IVF - a process that depends o...
ListenThe Last Flight from 2020-03-23T07:00
In the first episode of Telescope, we hear from Carmen Graterol, a Venezuelan living in Mexico City. On a planned trip to Caracas to visit family, suddenly it's unclear whether she'll be able to le...
ListenThe Last Flight from 2020-03-23T07:00
In the first episode of Telescope, we hear from Carmen Graterol, a Venezuelan living in Mexico City. On a planned trip to Caracas to visit family, suddenly it's unclear whether she'll be able to le...
ListenIntroducing Telescope: Life In The Time Of Corona from 2020-03-20T14:20
For so many of us around the globe, our lives have been forever changed by the Coronavirus. And we will never be the same. And yet, locked away in social isolation in our homes, away from our norm...
ListenIntroducing Telescope: Life In The Time Of Corona from 2020-03-20T14:20
For so many of us around the globe, our lives have been forever changed by the Coronavirus. And we will never be the same. And yet, locked away in social isolation in our homes, away from our norm...
ListenIntroducing Telescope: Life In The Time Of Corona from 2020-03-20T14:20
For so many of us around the globe, our lives have been forever changed by the Coronavirus. And we will never be the same.
And yet, locked away in social isolation in our homes, away from our ...