The Art of Petty with Prop & Amanda Nelson
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In the raging pile of slop that is social media, every once in a while you stumble across someone doing something genuinely amazing. That’s how Prop found Amanda Nelson, the creator behind Amanda’s Mild Takes, where she delivers comprehensive breakdowns of politics and history and artfully drags the trolls in her comment section while she’s at it. We had to get to know her.
In this episode, Amanda shares why she started making videos in the first place, what motivates her to clap back at haters, and what parallels she sees between the past and the current events happening in the US. She also offers her predictions for the upcoming midterm elections, and weighs in on who might throw their hat in the ring for president in 2028.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.0 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:10.5 | All right. |
| 0:11.4 | So, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to dive in, hood politics, and prop. |
| 0:16.8 | This is special for me. |
| 0:18.0 | We're calling this the art of Petty. |
| 0:20.5 | And the play on words you may or may not know is that Petty's actually my last name. |
| 0:25.7 | And like literally government, it's my last name. |
| 0:28.4 | And as a child, it used to bother me. |
| 0:30.8 | As a grown-up, I'm like, nah, that sounds about right. |
| 0:34.6 | So what made us start, first of all, was the bio says the writer of the Petty'sburg |
| 0:43.1 | address. |
| 0:45.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.0 | That's one of the funniest things. |
| 0:47.8 | It makes me mad because it's my last name. |
| 0:49.9 | And I'm like, why did I not think of that? |
| 0:53.0 | Like, it's so brilliant. |
| 0:55.8 | Amanda Nelson, welcome to the show. |
| 0:58.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:58.8 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:59.5 | And thank you for appreciating my ridiculous Abraham Lincoln joke. |
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