12:00: Democrats struggle to get past the Biden era*
1:00: Digging deep into our dreams
President Biden recently said that he would have beaten Donald Trump in 2024, and he's not surprised that Vice President Harris lost. Meanwhile, a new book details the ways that the Biden team concealed his cognitive decline from the public. Democrats are eager to move on and focus on the array of young leaders who could rise to prominence. But what lessons should they learn from the past four years? Our guest discusses it. In studio:
- Dylan Dailor, Democratic political consultant
*Note: This hour was preempted by live NPR coverage. It will be rescheduled for Monday, May 19 at noon.
Then in the second hour, for the past four years, former Democrat and Chronicle journalist Erica Bryant has turned her attention to reporting on the dream world. Bryant has gone deep, interviewing people about their dreams, and collecting hundreds of dream stories. She's preparing to debut her exhibition "Other People's Dreams" at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center. But first, she and some of her dream interviewees join us on "Connections" to explore what our dreams mean: why we have them; what they say about our lives and desires; and what the experts say. Our guests:
- Erica Bryant, artist and associate director of writing at the Vera Institute of Justice
- Jon Gary, musician and artist
- Davida Rogers, graduate student and artist
- Wilfred Pigeon, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and public health sciences and director of the Sleep and Neurophysiology Research Lab at the University of Rochester Medical Center
**Note: "Connections" is livestreamed each day on the WXXI News YouTube channel. Watch here.
