The Brian Lehrer Show

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December 27, 2021 Omicron Update: Hospitalizations, Testing, Holiday Travel, Vaccinations
Angela Rasmussen, research scientist at the vaccine and infectious disease organization (VIDO) at the university of Saskatchewan and affiliate at the Georgetown Global Health Science & Security, joins to discuss the latest in COVID-19 news headlines, plus your calls.
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29min
December 27, 2021 Remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Listeners call in to reflect on the legacy of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who received the Nobel Prize for his stance against Apartheid in 1984. He died of prostate cancer on Sunday at the age of 90.
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11min
December 27, 2021 Meet NYC's New Transportation Commissioner: Ydanis Rodriguez
Ydanis Rodriguez, outgoing City Council Member (10th District, Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill), discusses his tenure at City Hall and his appointment to be New York City's next transportation commissioner.
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31min
December 27, 2021 Monday Morning Politics: Travel Nightmares, Omicron Policy and More
Jonathan Lemire, White House Bureau Chief at Politico, host of Way Too Early on MSNBC and NBCNews analyst, discusses the latest national political developments and listeners report back on the holiday impacted by omicron.
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39min
December 24, 2021Holiday Best: Connecting Across the Divide
This Christmas Eve, enjoy catching up with these recent conversations about connecting:
Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis, senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village and the author of Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World (Harmony, 2021), offers a guide for getting past today's tribalism and competition to see that we are all in this together.
Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at Texas Tech University, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy, lead author for the Second, Third, and Fourth US National Climate Assessment, host of the PBS digital series Global Weirding and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2021), talks about how to avoid letting political polarization derail actions, big and small, to address climate change.
As families gather to celebrate the holidays, many singles and unmarried couples might face questions from family members about their relationship status. Katherine Hertlein, relationship therapist and professor in the couple and family therapy program at Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at University of Nevada Las Vegas, offers advice for responding to their intrusive questions.
Before we gather with folks with different media diets, WNYC's The United States of Anxiety host Kai Wright and senior digital producer Kousha Navidar offer an experiment to get past the filter bubbles that define what information gets to us.
Anna Sale, host of the WNYC Studios podcast Death, Sex & Money and author of the book Let's Talk About Hard Things (Simon & Schuster, 2021), shares her tips for how to have conversations about tough subjects, and why she thinks it's beneficial to talk it out.

These interviews were lightly edited to fit the format; the original web versions are available here:
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis on Coming Together (Nov. 9, 2021)
Climate Science for All (Sept. 23, 2021)
How to Respond to Meddling Family Members (Dec. 6, 2021)
My Bubble, Your Bubble (Nov. 23, 2021)
Hard Conversations Can Be the Best Conversations (May 4, 2021)
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1h 48min
December 23, 2021Holiday Best: McKay Coppins; Sandro Galea; Anne Helen Petersen; 'Great Resignation' Calls
Enjoy catching up with these recent conversations:
McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House (Little Brown, 2015), discusses the venture capital fund that's buying up local newspapers and driving them into bankruptcy and how the loss of local media is contributing to the polarizing political climate.
Sandro Galea, physician and epidemiologist, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, and the author of The Contagion Next Time (Oxford University Press, 2021), argues that the problems in U.S. public health systems, including racial disparities, predated the pandemic and need to be repaired before the next crisis.
Anne Helen Petersen, culture writer and the co-author with Charlie Warzel of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home (Knopf, 2021), talks about what starting a career during the pandemic has been like for remote workers.
Listeners who have taken part in the 'great resignation' talk about their decision to quit and what life has been like since.

These interviews were lightly edited to fit the format; the original web versions are available here:
Who Is Really Behind the Decline of Local News? (Nov. 23, 2021)
Fixing Public Health Inequities...Before Next Time (Nov. 1, 2021)
The Challenges of Starting a (Remote) Career (Nov. 29, 2021)
You Quit. Now What? (Nov. 16, 2021)
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1h 49min
December 22, 2021 'Exit Interview' With Scott Stringer
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer talks about his career in public office and offers some advice for the City's future.
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29min
December 22, 2021 The Biggest Lies Told in 2021
Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker for The Washington Post, takes listeners through the biggest lies told this year by politicians and figures in authority.
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34min
December 22, 2021 The Best of Culture: Listener Edition
Listeners call in to share their picks for the best in movies, television and music from 2021.
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19min
December 22, 2021 Ho-Ho-Omicron: Dr. Blackstock Takes Your Last-Minute Holiday COVID Questions
Uché Blackstock, emergency medicine physician, founder & CEO of Advancing Health Equity and an MSNBC medical contributor, talks about this season's least welcome holiday greeting, the omicron variant, and takes your questions on how to safely travel and what to do about a positive test.
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29min

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