The Land That Never Has Been Yet

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

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4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Today, we are sharing one of our favorite podcasts-- Scene on Radio. Over the course of twelve episodes, host John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika explore a theme both evergreen and immediately urgent: democracy in America. Fitz talks with John about the recent season and shares the trailer. From Scene On Radio: “Our season-long series will touch on concerns like authoritarianism, voter suppression and gerrymandering, foreign intervention, and the role of money in politics, but we’ll go much deeper, effectively retelling the story of the United States from its beginnings up to the present. Through field recordings and interviews with leading thinkers, we’ll tell under-told stories and explore critical questions like—How democratic was the U.S. ever meant to be, anyway? American democracy is clearly in crisis today, but . . . when was it not? Along the way, there’s a good chance that we’ll complicate, maybe upend, our listeners’ understanding of American history.”

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, so this is our week off, but we thought we'd take this opportunity to share
0:06.0	one of our favorite podcasts out there, seen on radio.
0:09.8	If you are not particularly interested in history or different perspectives about how
0:13.4	we've arrived at this moment in time in our country, you can skip it.
0:18.3	And we will be back next week with our regular show.
0:20.7	It's a good one, and you'll be sighted.
0:23.2	Okay, so for those of you that are still with me right now, the other day one of my closest
0:29.0	friends was tolling me on a text read and kept digging up all these articles I wrote
0:33.1	for our college paper, The UW Daily.
0:35.1	It was some really hard-hitting stuff.
0:36.8	Let me tell you, like the time the maintenance crew found a dead piranha in the fountain.
0:42.2	So he's sending all these stories that I wrote and making fun of me, and he shares the
0:46.8	last story I wrote before I think I left school.
0:50.6	It's dated from November 2000, a couple weeks after that year's election, George Bush ran
0:55.9	against Al Gore.
0:57.7	But at that stage, almost three weeks after we'd all voted, we still didn't know who
1:01.8	had won because there were all these ballot errors in Florida.
1:05.4	And it came down to one county, Palm Beach County, a place where I grew up, the paper ballots,
1:10.3	the people used, they made it easy for someone to punch.
1:13.5	That was the actual term for moving the tiny bit of paper to candidates.
1:17.9	And that became known as a hanging chat and disqualify your vote.
1:21.7	I was going home to see my family, so I pitched the editor of our paper about doing a story.
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