Americano: the unbearable mawkishness of modern American politics
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The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Amber Athe, Washington editor of The Spectator, and I'd like to urge you all to give the gift of great writing this Christmas. |
| 0:08.2 | The Spectator has a special Yuletide offer for Americano listeners. |
| 0:12.4 | For $52, that's just $1 a week, you'll get a full subscription to The Spectator, which includes a beautiful, monthly 88-page magazine and full access to our brilliant American website. |
| 0:25.6 | We'll even throw in a free Parker pen so you can get scribbling yourself. |
| 0:29.7 | Just go to spectator.us forward slash Christmas and subscribe. |
| 0:34.5 | Have a very, very merry Christmas from everyone at The Spectator. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. My name is Freddie Gray and I'm the Spectator's |
| 0:49.0 | US editor. And I'm here to tell you, as if you didn't already know know that the 2020 presidential election is now over and Donald Trump appears to have lost. |
| 1:00.0 | He isn't going away, however, not any time soon. |
| 1:04.0 | And it looks as though the last few weeks of a Trump presidency promised to be even more crazy if that were possible than the previous four or so years. We'll be |
| 1:13.0 | discussing all that and more in the coming weeks. I'm joined today by Thomas Frank, who is an American |
| 1:19.1 | historian and author of many brilliant books. Can I say many? Yes, you've done many. Yeah. Many |
| 1:26.7 | brilliant books. And the latest is particularly good, I think. |
| 1:31.2 | It's called The People Know a Brief History of Anti-Populism. |
| 1:34.7 | And regular listeners to Americana, may remember that we did a crowdcast, actually. |
| 1:40.7 | It was a video thing, but we put it on the podcast. |
| 1:44.5 | That's right. When the book first came out, and I'm grateful to you for that. That was |
| 1:47.9 | actually a lot of fun. That was one of the best interviews I've done. So you call your |
| 1:51.9 | podcast Americano. Am I right? It's a bit creepy, isn't it? A bit of a creepy type. |
| 1:56.3 | It is. But so the way you just pronounced the word, I thought you said Americana, which is a word that |
| 2:02.6 | we do use here in the United States to mean like, you know, collectible stuff. |
| 2:07.3 | I think that would be a better, I probably shouldn't slag off my own podcast on the podcast, |
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