❤️Sending love, hope you're ok❤️ 🎙 Earios' Amanda Lund 👂

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Oof.

I had a silly intro planned for today, but it doesn’t feel appropriate, and I don’t know what is. I hope it’s not insensitive to send you these podcast recommendations, but maybe they can offer you some relief. I’m sending this newsletter out, mostly as planned.

Listen, it’s been a YEAR, and I have been clinging to my optimism to help get my family and myself through it. But I’m having an award-winning hard time focusing today. We have managed to bump a global pandemic to second tier news. Black Lives Matter.

I was listening to The Daily Zeitgeist this morning, as I always do, and Miles started the episode by saying, “we recorded this Friday, and because we are in a hellscape, it might not make much sense to you on Monday.” We are living in a world where we are so confident the future will be confusing and probably scary that we cannot record a news podcast two days in advance.

Podcasts are reacting by dropping emergency episodes. I direct you toward The Nod, The Daily, What a Day. …