The Best Breakdown of America You’ve Never Heard - Richard Miniter

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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0:00.0	The way to understand America, it was founded as four separate, somewhat
0:06.6	conversive, religious utopias that come from different time periods in Britain's past.
0:13.6	So the more you understand the past of your country, the more you understand the English of
0:17.9	especially, the more you'll understand America.
0:21.5	So the ideas of the village these people are from
0:26.3	becomes the idea of the village they settle in.
0:29.3	Well, hundreds of years later,
0:30.7	those ideas have continued through those same social networks,
0:33.6	families, and so on.
0:35.5	And so that puts America at odds with itself. So the cultural shadow of
0:40.5	these events in America is quite long. It's all but forgotten in your country, but it's alive here
0:47.1	in a cultural sense, we are your past. Tariffs, meme coins, Girl Scout cookies. What do they all have in common? Come on, it's all about the money.
0:58.8	Economics is everywhere and everything, fueling our lives even where we least expect it. If you're a fan of
1:04.8	trigonometry, then we know you're the type who's curious to learn. That's why I recommend you listen to the Planet Money podcast from NPR.
1:13.7	Look, the economy's confusing, even when you try and keep up.
1:17.7	That's why so many people I respect rate Planet Money from NPR.
1:22.4	Through storytelling, they found a way to make big economic ideas make sense,
1:26.7	not dry lectures, real stories,
1:29.5	weird experiments, even humor. One episode, they're shooting a satellite into space,
1:34.7	then next they're launching a record label, all just to help you understand how the world
1:39.4	works. That's commitment. It's clever, it's sharp, and it helps you understand the world we're living in.
1:45.8	Check out Planet Money from NPR, available wherever you get your podcasts.
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