Katherine Hamilton
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654 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Katherine Hamilton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And also there are some studies that show that since the pandemic, people are a little more unfriendly and they're a little less likely to talk to strangers and just sort of pick up a conversation at a place like a bar or like a casual sort of free place to hang out.
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People just feel like they have to make more of a concerted effort to make friends.
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It doesn't happen as naturally anymore.
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Yeah, it's definitely a priority.
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And you also see a lot of like apps that are popping up that are supposed to help people meet in real life.
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But they're sort of going through the app to have dinners arranged for them or random meetups so they can meet friends in real life.
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I mean, there's of course still bars, there's parks, there's libraries, but people feel there is an increase in cost associated with some of those.
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A cocktail is pretty expensive now, and if you want to sit in a bar for a while, you feel like you need to maybe buy more than one.
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And there is a decline in free spaces.
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Churches is another big one where a lot of people would find community, and there's been a decline in people coming together in person at places of worship.
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And so there is just not as much of an opportunity to spend time in these free spaces and build community there.
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What is that?
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It's a place where you spend the most time that is not your home or your work.
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And that's where people traditionally have built a lot of their community and their friends.
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And a lot of especially younger people are starting to feel like there's not a lot of third places available to them.
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And another really important aspect of the third place is that it's free or very inexpensive to spend a lot of time there.
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And so I talked to two young people who are trying to fix that and build a third place for their community.
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And they created an event recently where tickets were about $10, but they're hoping to make it free eventually.
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And it was a space where everyone from the community of all ages could just come, spend time.
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And there was kind of an explicit mission of socializing and making friends there.
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