The Returns: An Election Mini-Series from The Last Archive
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Election Year 2024 is upon us. And it promises to be a bit of a mess. But where did all this mess come from? In a 4-episode mini-series drawing from our own archive, Jill Lepore and Ben Naddaff-Hafrey investigate, situate, and contextualize our present moment in the history that brought us here. This series contains episodes from our original seasons alongside new material. Coming next week.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. Hey Last Archive Listener's, I want to tell you about a new series we have coming up next week. |
| 0:18.0 | Unless you've been living under a rock, in which case I'd recommend you stay there, |
| 0:22.0 | you may have noticed that this is an election year. |
| 0:25.3 | The main action is yet to come, but it's fast approaching, and when it gets here, |
| 0:29.5 | it promises to be complicated and confusing and momentous and well an election. |
| 0:35.0 | Over the years we've done a lot of thinking on the show about the history of |
| 0:39.4 | American elections and so we wanted to dig into our own archives at the last archive to bring back three |
| 0:45.8 | episodes we made with Jill Lepore, American historian and host emerita of the show. |
| 0:51.5 | All about elections and changes in American politics |
| 0:54.2 | over nearly the past century. |
| 0:56.2 | We've got stories about supercomputers and rogue admin. |
| 0:59.3 | Have you got a prediction for us, UNVAC? |
| 1:01.3 | Brash talk radio hosts. |
| 1:03.0 | If you listen to this show every day, you never need to read another newspaper again. |
| 1:06.6 | I do it for you and you get a bonus. |
| 1:08.0 | I tell you what you think. |
| 1:09.6 | And on January 6th. |
| 1:21.0 | And then at the end of the series I'm going to talk with Jill about how we can situate the upcoming election in all of that history. It starts next week right here in the last archive. |
| 1:25.0 | Thanks for listening and see you soon. |
| 1:28.0 | You can listen to the last archive wherever you get your podcasts. We hope you enjoyed this episode. We're excited to introduce you to another |
| 1:45.0 | fantastic podcast by tuning in you're directly supporting your favorite |
| 1:49.1 | podcast and discovering new content. Thanks for listening. Pushkin. I'm Greta Cone, the CEO of Pushkin. |
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