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a big hello
and welcome to our show i'm carl azuz we
hope you're in the middle of a good week
or that it's about to get that way
since last year people around the world
have been wondering
when are things going to get back to
normal globally we're not there yet
the nation of india recently became the
epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic
johns hopkins university says it's still
recording hundreds of thousands of new
positive tests per day but there has
been a steady decrease in that number
over the past week or so
international health officials have
reported roughly 164
million covid cases since the virus
started spreading last year
it's been cited as a factor in more than
3 million deaths
since an estimated 40 percent of people
who catch the disease
don't show symptoms and may not get
tested its overall survival rate is
estimated at around 99.5
but the risk is higher for older people
and those who had certain health
conditions before catching it
as far as treatments go a lot of focus
has been on vaccines
there are several of them being used
around the world they were developed
faster than any other vaccines in
history but there's also been extensive
research on existing therapeutic drugs
several of them have been shown to help
people recover or avoid hospitalizations
related to coronavirus
one of the latest is an asthma drug
studied at oxford university
there are still shortages of different
materials impacted by covid related
shutdowns
toilet paper is no longer one of them
but computer chips
bicycles wood steel gasoline these are
all in short supply
that's having impacts on the prices of
goods and homes
american communities are returning to
normalcy at different paces in some
areas it's been
more or less business as usual since
last summer with meetings being held
sports being played trips being made in
others where businesses were closed
and people were more isolated for longer
periods of time
there could be more of an adjustment
period when life returns to the way it
was
confined largely to our homes deprived
of freedoms experiences
and human connections somehow we've
mostly learned to get by now in
countries with advanced vaccine programs
we must
adapt again
to crowds to conversations to a pace of
life that seems distant
and personally a little intimidating
and that makes me feel nervous
anxious even fearful
but i don't know why i'm feeling this
way i think
we have all become a little
inclined to be closed in and hesitant
to go back to that normal life
and we need to reinvigorate that social
muscle
psychologist anna nikkovich says
nervousness about returning to
something like our old reality now has a
namere-entry anxiety but it's not new this
phenomenon has been observed by
psychologists before in
people who have spent protracted periods
of time in isolation for example people
who have gone
in the space
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chris hadfield understands why some
people are feeling anxious
my longest time in space when i was
living on board and commanding the
international space station
was a little under six months so half a
year halfway around the sun
hadfield says he returned to earth a
different person and many of those
emerging from lockdown
will also have experienced profound
personal change
perhaps some of the anxiety is fueled by
the fear
that things could go back that we could
lose some of what we found through this
experience
well i think that's up to each of us
phil how am i going to take this new
version of me
and introduce it to this new version of
the world in as productive way as i
possibly can
a practical optimism i think that's what
you're advocating there is that fair
that's how we fly spaceships phil with a
very deeply based practical optimism
pip hair believes she is her best self
when battling
oceans alone she recently finished a 96
daynon-stop single-handed race around the
world
but even with all her extraordinary
courage returning to life on land can be
overwhelming
just need to remember that we are
adaptable and we will
go to a different kind of normal again
but you don't want to throw yourself at
it too hard allow the change to happen
gradually and make sure you're doing
things that work for you
my wife and i were arrested jason
resigned was imprisoned in iran while
working as the washington post's bureau
chiefi spent 49 days
in solitary confinement and i went on to
spend a total of 544 days
in that prison he knows the complex
emotions that follow a sudden return
to a once familiar life in my case i was
you know one person and um and my wife
we were two people that were dealing
with this
what we're talking about now is billions
of peoplearound the world uh coming to this at um
at almost the same time just recognizing
thateverybody is going to have a different
reaction and
many of those reactions are going to be
unexpected unexpected
to the world and unexpected to those
people themselves
so we should all be a little gentle with
each other perhaps i think we should
always be a little bit gentle with each
other butbut certainly in the in the weeks and
and the months ahead
um you know i think we should air
towards
uh forgiveness there's gonna be a lot of
awkward encounters for everybody
everyone wants the pandemic to end but
in a world where old certainties have
been swept aside we can't all be sure
we'll want everything that comes next
10 second trivia which of these u.s
media brands was launched first
hbo cnn tnt or cartoon network
these brands are in order from oldest to
youngest with hbo's birthday dating back
to 1972.
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one thing all those brands have in
common is that they're part of a larger
company called warner media
and warner media is owned by a t it has
been since 2018
but at t has decided to sell warner
media to discovery
why att is a large wireless company and
satellite tv distributor
it wanted to offer programming and
entertainment as well
that's why it bought warner media three
years ago for 85 billion dollars
but at t the world's largest
telecommunications company
wants to change course again for one
thing the acquisition of warner media
left it with a lot of debt
an att along with its investors want to
focus more on 5g
and other parts of its core business so
it's selling warner media which includes
cnnto discovery the deal is worth 43
billion dollars to at
t what might it mean for the other
brands and for the industry in general
this is a streaming spin-off that tells
us a lot about the future of media
in a streaming world dominated by
netflix disney and amazon
warner media and discovery believe they
need to team up and get bigger
together in order to grow all around the
world it was three years ago in 2018
that a t
acquired time warner renamed it warner
media took control of cnn hbo warner
brothers
what we've seen as a result is the hbo
max streaming service which has been
gaining subscribers but
is lagging far behind the likes of
netflix there's a similar story over at
discovery run by ceo david zasloff
they recently launched something called
discovery plus a streaming service with
the kind of lifestyle programming the
company's known for
food cooking house home renovation shows
all those sorts of programs available in
a streaming service
but these services are relatively small
compared to the disney's of the world
so now they are combining forces trying
to be one of the three or four
dominant streaming brands in media first
though it does have to get reviewed by
regulators
that process could take about a year so
nothing changes right away
and as for the channel you're watching
right now cnn i spoke with zazlov and he
says he will continue to be committed to
cnn's editorial independence
just as a t has for the past few years
brian stelter cnn new york
i'll see you at the pool right after i
plug in my lamborghini
that's what the company hopes its
customers will be saying by the end of
2024 when the italian
supercar maker will only sell plug-in
hybridsthese kinds of cars have both electric
and internal combustion engines so
they'll still sound loud and aggressive
lamborghini says its customers don't
want
fully electric supercars it's making the
switch to hybrids to reduce its
vehicle's carbon dioxide emissions
but critics say so few people can afford
lamborghinis which cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars that it
really won't make a difference to the
environment
of course if they want a lamborgh give
me one to test drive you bugatti believe
that rosing around like a egg head in a
furreally fast car that clearly bent leaves
my porsche old sedan in the dust
well i'd be pagani in 60 seconds y'all
heyour show drives off into the sunset next
friday
may 28th we will return in august
plymouth regional high school thank you
for watching from plymouth new hampshire
i m carl azuz