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Kirsten Powers

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1. “Right? Because I just didn't wasn't exposed to a lot of what kids today are exposed to, or even I think probably what a lot of kids my own age were exposed to. You know, I came home from school and the only thing on TV was the Lone Ranger and leave it to Beaver. And so sometimes I'm like, it feels like I grew up in the 50s, but it wasn't.”

   2019-02-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 308 — Kirsten Powers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “You know, we wouldn't find out about things like right when they happened. I guess, unless you were listening to the radio or something, but it just wasn't the way it is today where, you know, I look at my nieces and they're very up on everything and they're very up on all the trends and everything. But I was really for better and worse. Yeah, for better and worse. And I think I actually always say like, I feel like I got a real childhood”

   2019-02-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 308 — Kirsten Powers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “I could. And it's very, very cold. It's regularly, you know, 40, 50 below. That's completely normal in the winter. Dark all the time. I'd leave for school in the morning, it'd be pitch black. I'd come home, it'd be pitch black. That was kind of my life. And so that's. That's not really normal. And it was also, I grew up in the 70s, and so this was a very different time. The internet didn't exist. We didn't have cable news. We didn't have cable period. It didn't even exist. So we were really cut off from what we call the lower 48. And so it was almost like growing up in another country. The news was”

   2019-02-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 308 — Kirsten Powers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

4. “Well, you know, people always ask what was it like to grow up in Alaska? And it's just all I really knew. So it seemed completely normal. Looking back on it, it actually wasn't normal at all because I grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska too, which is really hardcore Alaska. It's not, you know, it's pretty far north. Could you see Russia?”

   2019-02-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 308 — Kirsten Powers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source