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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | You can get three months of The Spectator for just £15 and a free bottle of pro ranger champagne |
0:05.3 | if you go to spectator.com.uk-for-slash jingu. This offer is UK-only and subject to availability. |
0:17.6 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American power, politics and prejudices. |
0:25.6 | The election is over, but the Americano never stops and there will be a lot to talk about with the second Trump administration. |
0:34.6 | And so we'll bring you more and more Americano, |
0:38.5 | because judging from the feedback, that's what you guys want. |
0:42.0 | So please keep listening. |
0:44.1 | I am delighted to be joined here in the Spectators' offices |
0:48.0 | by Jacob Halbrun, senior editor of national interest. |
0:53.0 | And can I say a senior editor of Absolute Sound? |
0:57.4 | Correct. |
0:58.1 | Magazine, which is about audio equipment, not sound in the conservative sense of meaning solid, a solid right-winger. |
1:08.5 | It's high-end audio. |
1:09.6 | It's high-end audio. |
1:13.6 | Jacob has come to London to, |
1:18.4 | not just to do this, but he wants to talk through the year with the Americana, since you are our most regular guest. And what a year it has been in American politics. A lot has happened. |
1:26.7 | How do you feel about your country at the moment? |
1:32.0 | Apprehensive and cautiously optimistic at the same time. I should say from the beginning, |
1:37.3 | I might have mentioned on the last Americano podcast that I do have to eat some humble pie |
1:42.9 | since I had predicted that Harris would win a |
1:46.0 | sweeping and convincing victory. And it turns out that an essay by Roger Kimball and the |
1:53.7 | spectator was far more accurate than anything I had prognosticated. He said that, in fact, |
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