One Year: 1955 Trailer
One Year
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Coming Thursday, August 31st, the fifth season of One Year covers 1955. A year when a team of 12-year-olds tried to integrate Little League, “weather girls” took the country by storm, and a conspiracy theory about Communist brainwashing infected the nation’s politics.
One Year is history like you’ve never heard it before. In each season, host Josh Levin brings you the weirdest, wildest, and most captivating moments from a single year in American history. You’ll hear stories you may have forgotten and ones you won’t believe you didn’t know, all told by the people who lived through them.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.2 | First, you turn the time circuits on. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Josh Levine, the host of Slate's podcast one year. |
| 0:11.2 | In our new season, we're firing up our flux capacitors and taking you way back. |
| 0:17.7 | 1995. |
| 0:19.3 | 1995. |
| 0:20.6 | It was a year when the suburbs. 1995. It was a year when the suburbs were booming, and rock and roll was revving up. |
| 0:27.6 | 1995. |
| 0:29.6 | A year of change, of awakening and of opportunity. |
| 0:32.6 | But the nation was also gripped by fear. |
| 0:35.6 | We must be ready all the time for the atomic bomb. But the nation was also gripped by fear. |
| 0:41.3 | We must be ready all the time for the atomic bomb. |
| 0:52.8 | This season will bring you 1955's weirdest, wildest, and most captivating stories, |
| 0:56.9 | like how Walt Disney was on the brink, before he ignited the year's biggest cultural craze. I think the term buzz would be an understatement, |
| 1:03.2 | because no matter what, Davy Crockett was going to be watched yet again. You'll hear from the |
| 1:09.0 | Black Little Leaguers, who helped launch the modern civil |
| 1:12.1 | rights movement. This is a crack in the wall, man. These guys are going to integrate baseball. |
| 1:17.8 | You'll learn about forgotten pioneers, like the TV weather girls who took the country by storm. |
| 1:23.9 | A cute, sexy young woman was very appealing, and I can quite understand why. |
| 1:29.2 | And you'll discover moments from the past that resonate deeply with the present. |
| 1:33.9 | Like how a bizarre conspiracy theory infected the nation's politics. |
| 1:38.9 | Oh my God, you don't see what's happening here. |
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