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The Quarantine Tapes

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The Quarantine Tapes

Paul Holdengräber

Κοινωνία & Πολιτισμός

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.“ - Blaise Pascal.
The Quarantine Tapes: A week-day program from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.

επεισόδια	313
διάρκεια	141 ώρες
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The Quarantine Tapes 153: Joy Harjo

“We’re all called in our human being-ness to embody what a warrior embodies, and that’s someone who’s awake and is listening and is moving through the world listening.”

The Quarantine Tapes 152: Andy Borowitz

“I think embarrassment is human. We, as Americans, need to come to terms with the fact that we’re always going to have something to be embarrassed for. We have leaders who do embarrass us, even when we like them.”

The Quarantine Tapes 151: Nikky Finney

“Don’t you ever forget that love made you. That’s a really important fact for me as a poet of my time in this world today.”

The Quarantine Tapes 150: Katrina vanden Heuvel

“The notion that we are an indispensable nation, which has been around for decades, or that we have the right to triumphalism and the end of civilization with the United States winning the civilization game, I think should be jettisoned right now, but they also should have been jettisoned years ago. A great nation, in my mind, doesn’t need to boast. A great nation needs to get its act together...

The Quarantine Tapes 149: Paul Coates

“Western language doesn’t give us that space in between. Either you hope and you’re optimistic or you’re pessimistic. There’s a clear either white or black, there’s no gray in between.”

The Quarantine Tapes 148: Morgan Entrekin

“It’s a big question, the “where are we” with politics, with cultural discourse, with the media, all of it, but through it all, I do feel optimistic somewhat. And we could try to parse it down--where does the optimism come from? As a publisher, you have to be an optimist.”

The Quarantine Tapes 147: Reverend William Barber

”Who is at the center of your vision? ‘Cause if the poor and the sick and the unemployed and those facing eviction are not at the center of your vision, you will misuse your position because nothing is guiding you.”

The Quarantine Tapes 146: Kiese Laymon

“A lot of times we want every line to be its own character, and you can do that. I like some of that writing, but is it in the service of the paragraph? And is the paragraph in service of the page? And is that page in service of the book? And the larger question is that book in the service of a liberatory vision?”

The Quarantine Tapes 145: Natasha Trethewey

“Contending with this immeasurable grief is what made me a writer.”

The Quarantine Tapes 144: Sarah Broom

“Art is made from life. And, so, how do we encourage a kind of life that has meaning and purpose on a very small level, in our personal worlds and in the worlds of the people we love?”

The Quarantine Tapes 143: Cathy Song

“You realize that we’re so spoiled, we just want to do whatever we want to do at any time. We’re just so used to having our needs met whenever we want, and this is a time of just great discipline.”

The Quarantine Tapes 142: Harryette Mullen

“When I’m walking, I’m trying to keep my eyes open and my ears open and my mind open. To be open, and observant. To look for the poem in my walk. I am walking and looking for the poem to meet me.”

The Quarantine Tapes 141: Kim Stafford

“We’re in a severely divided country and my question I’m carrying is, 'How can I be a good citizen in a divided country?'”.

The Quarantine Tapes 140: Helen Drutt English

“There are deeper relationships being formed and a deeper understanding of our love for each other and also our lives.”

The Quarantine Tapes 139: Jorie Graham

“Hurricanes, storms destroy us and we forget about them instantly and we rebuild. We just have very little capacity to alter our ways. My fear is that when the pandemic disappears...we will act as if it never happened.”

The Quarantine Tapes 138: Jeffrey Sterling

“I think what people should understand about whistleblowers is that they’re Americans who love and care for their country just like anyone else, and have chosen to take a very risky step to say no and to stand up against the powers that be.“

The Quarantine Tapes 137: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“Monolingualism is a carbon monoxide of cultures and multilingualism is the oxygen of cultures [...] In an equal give and take, [languages] enrich each other. Languages have borrowed words from other languages, quite happily.”

The Quarantine Tapes 136: Terry Tempest Williams

“During this pandemic I think we have the opportunity to see this as a transformative time, as well as a deploy harrowing time, but that the seeds of renewal are beneath our feet.”

The Quarantine Tapes 135: Marc Ribot

“There seems to be some slippage to the essential service, to the inessential service, to the expendable industry and from there to the expendable human being, and no human being is expendable. Not one.”

The Quarantine Tapes 134: Morton Subotnick

“The meaning of life, for me, and it never changed, is you find out who you are. Your duty is to find out who you are, what you are, and do the very best you can with that, and share what you do with other people. That’s what I’ve done my whole life.”