Eau d'Americast
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As covid cases continue to rise, Emily, Jon and Anthony discuss how Biden will fight the pandemic. Also, how Texas is making a bid to overturn Biden’s win. And why is Trump carrying out federal executions in the dying days of his Presidency?
Studio Direction: Emma Crowe Producers: Harriet Noble, Frankie Tobi and Natalie Ktena Assistant Editor: Emma Close
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | You know those monoliths that have started popping up everywhere, like the just the statues |
| 0:08.8 | on the desert in Utah and on the beach and the Isle of White, I mean utterly random. |
| 0:14.1 | I became a bit obsessed with it this week and I just thought it was really important |
| 0:18.4 | that we try and lead the bulletins on them. |
| 0:22.0 | We didn't, meadless to say. |
| 0:24.1 | And then I suddenly had this moment of fear that I tweeted and I thought what if actually |
| 0:29.6 | a celebrity perfume is about to appear in a bottle shaped like a monolith and that's |
| 0:35.0 | what this is all about. |
| 0:36.6 | And then at Nigel MCD replied on Twitter, surely an America's odor toilet is on the Christmas |
| 0:41.4 | list but what would that aroma be? |
| 0:43.2 | Well I'm guessing Joe Biden's would be leather armchairs, slight marbly smell from walking |
| 0:47.7 | down those corridors of power for so long and Donald Trump's, hmm, sour grapes with maybe |
| 0:52.7 | a flavour of bitter tears, welcome to America's. |
| 0:56.8 | America's from BBC News. |
| 1:02.4 | This is the time to heal America. |
| 1:04.6 | This is a fraud on the American public. |
| 1:07.5 | Joe Biden will be the 46th president of these United States. |
| 1:11.4 | While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last. |
| 1:16.3 | All the networks. |
| 1:17.6 | Wow! |
| 1:18.6 | Where are you from? |
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