The Vanquished - E1

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Episode 1 of Anders' new podcast. Special thanks to Jules Taylor for producing, Jose Carneiro for the logo and Don Lee for recording the intro and quotes from Walter Mondale. Subscribe to The Vanquished: https://open.spotify.com/show/0MaaYMTaw1z5mpNy35RbDv

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0:00.0	In the annals of time, riding social forces as they crest and crash under the shores of history,
0:16.4	some would-be heroes stumble but manage to recover their breath.
0:21.6	Others are reduced to the flotsam and jetsam of nostalgia.
0:25.6	These others are our subjects.
0:28.6	They are the vanquished.
0:31.6	Vankwished.
0:33.6	November 6th, 1984, Walter Fritz Mondale stands in an empty suite at the St. Paul Hilton.
0:45.1	One of his staffers, Maxine Isaacs, enters and turns on the TV.
0:49.1	On CBS, Dan Rather sits beside an enormous map of the United States, covered in red.
0:55.3	From Rathers' lips, Mondale reads the word landslide, landslide, landslide, landslide,
1:00.6	landslide, landslide. Hello and welcome to the premiere episode of The Vanquished.
1:05.4	Andrew Jay Lee here with my co-producer, my trusty colleague, and friend Jules Taylor.
1:12.1	Thank you for being with me on this project.
1:14.6	Well, thank you for inviting me to take part in this project.
1:17.4	Thank you for entrusting me with this baby of yours that I'm casually holding over a balcony right now.
1:25.3	Yeah, this thing has been a long time coming.
1:28.0	This has been a dream of mine to catalog and analyze the failed candidates in
1:34.3	American presidential history.
1:37.5	And so we're excited to finally bring this to the people.
1:40.6	We've been working on this particular episode for a long time, and we really put a lot into it.
1:46.6	We are starting with a man dear to my heart, in a way, Malta Mondale, who some view as the most
1:54.0	prestigious, the most infamous Norwegian American, which, for better or worse, is my ethnicity,
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