The Best Political Music Of 2018

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Daily News, News, Politics

4.4 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a year full of news, one line in the Aug. 23 episode of the NPR Politics Podcast spurred the most comments from our listeners. "You can't find good political music." Our listeners were right. There is good political music, so this year we're breaking down what makes a good political song & what were the best ones of 2018. This episode: Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe, political reporter Miles Parks, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, and NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.0	Today we are doing something a little bit different, and we are going to address the one
0:08.9	thing that all of you, our listeners, could not let go of this year, and we will explain.
0:14.0	I'm Scott Tetroy, cover congress.
0:15.5	I'm Aisha Roscoe, cover the White House.
0:17.6	I'm Miles Parks, I'm a political reporter.
0:19.4	We've got a very special guest here today, Steven Thompson from NPR Music.
0:22.5	How's it going?
0:23.5	It is great, I'm so excited and honored to be here, I love this podcast.
0:26.6	I got to say this is kind of trippy because you are a regular on pop culture happy hour,
0:31.9	and we basically stole your format.
0:35.0	You stole it and then perfected it.
0:37.0	But now you're here, so it's like the full blend of the two podcasts.
0:40.4	A full circle moment.
0:42.6	So Steven, we are here because of one very important thing, of all the things we said in
0:46.9	all the podcasts this year, which is a lot.
0:49.5	There was one thing that our listeners couldn't let go.
0:52.2	We got the most angry response on Twitter, in email, on the street, everywhere.
0:57.6	And it is something that Tim Mac said on August 23rd, let's take a listen to that and go
1:03.0	from there.
1:04.0	Well here's what I kind of wanted to go on a mini rant.
1:06.2	Okay.
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