The End of This Experiment

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Experiment is coming to an end. For our final episode, we contemplate our strange, sometimes beautiful, often frustrating country. We go back to some of the people we met and fell in love with while making the show, and ask them how their version of the American experiment is going.

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This episode was produced by Alyssa Edes, Gabrielle Berbey, Julia Longoria, and Tracie Hunt, with editing by Michael May and Emily Botein. Fact-check by Sam Fentress. Sound design by David Herman. Transcription by Caleb Codding.

Music by Water Feature (“Richard III (Duke of Gloucester)”), Naran Ratan (“Forever time Journeys”), H Hunt (“C U Soon”), Parish Council (“Heatherside Stores” and “Durdle Door”), and Ob (“Ghyll”), provided by Tasty Morsels.

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0:00.0	н
0:14.7	What?
0:19.0	What?
0:25.4	Have a look how it's feeling Roboticas
0:40.6	I'm gonna speak out.
0:42.6	You getting the fuck out of me?
0:46.6	I'm gonna speak out of you!
0:48.6	I'm gonna speak out of you!
0:54.6	I'm gonna speak out of you!
1:00.6	Hello, you reached Mike Belldrain with Triltec Mining and Tomlin.
1:04.6	If you leave your name and your number, I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks.
1:08.6	Hi, Mike. This is Julia Lungoria from the Experiment. You might remember me from like over a year ago.
1:16.6	We talked about the elk you shot in the zone of death.
1:20.6	So I'm calling you actually because the experiment the show is coming to an end.
1:26.6	And we just wanted to see if you might answer a few questions because we're figuring out how to wrap up the show.
1:36.6	I hope you're well. Thanks.
1:58.6	I'm Julia Lungoria.
2:00.6	This is the experiment.
2:02.6	And it's true. This show about our unfinished country is coming to an end.
2:10.6	The founding idea of our show was to take a look at our strange, sometimes beautiful, and often frustrating country.
2:22.6	We Americans have a habit of repeating the ideals of our democracy like a prayer.
2:28.6	But in practice, as we try to bring those ideals down to earth, we have a way of making an epic mess of things.
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