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🗓️ 25 June 2025
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| 0:08.0 | Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the Internet. |
| 0:36.5 | Welcome to the QAA podcast, Premium Episode 295. |
| 0:40.9 | Mike Lindell, cocaine cowboy, courtroom loser. |
| 0:44.9 | As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky, Julian Field, and Travis View. |
| 0:49.8 | The United States has produced some great writers who have artfully expressed the beauty, |
| 0:54.9 | the ugliness, and the grand drama of this land and this nation. |
| 0:58.5 | But I think there is a case to be made that the writer that really shaped how Americans think |
| 1:02.8 | about what it means to be an American isn't Mark Twain or Melville or Steinbeck or John Dos Passos, |
| 1:09.5 | let's say. |
| 1:10.1 | It's Horatio Alger, the late 19th century Massachusetts-based writer who produced didactic |
| 1:15.5 | tales about young, impoverished boys who rise above their station to middle-class respectability |
| 1:21.1 | through sheer pluck, personal virtue, and determination. |
| 1:24.4 | That's the story of this podcast. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, it is. |
| 1:26.6 | That's what we did. His tales spoke to and fed the American fantasy that regardless of where you are in life, |
| 1:32.3 | you can rise to extraordinary heights in any field of your choosing if you just dream big, |
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