{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"American Nobles","title":"Episode 17: Election Week Optimism: How to Get Your Family to Wednesday","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":891,"description":" Tuesday is the election. By Wednesday, half the people you love are going to feel like they lost. This one is for the week itself: why almost nothing you're afraid of is a law of nature, why we're less divided than the fight makes us feel, and one question to ask before Tuesday that gets your house to Wednesday still speaking.\nThe day you vote was chosen in 1845 for a man with a wagon. Your 401(k) is one paragraph from 1978. Two percent inflation started as a remark on New Zealand television. Somebody decided all of it, and what got decided can be decided differently. No party. No candidate.\nIn this episode: Why Tuesday: the 1845 decision that still runs your calendar. The honest weather report: a Congress with approval in the teens, a country that can't build, a nobility the tax code grew back, and why each is a decision, not a law of nature. Why election week narrows the frame, and how to widen it: 1824, 1876, and the country was still here Wednesday. The election as the ritual that holds our rivalry: neighbors at folding tables, a machine built to work when we aren't, a bell that rings Wednesday morning. America isn't a gene. It's an agreement, and you get to claim it. Who's holding the pen: why the one who carries the decisions at her house should be the most optimistic person in it. Thin wants, thick ones, and the oldest high five in the world.\nThe question for the car: who's the person you'll still have to love on Wednesday morning, whichever way Tuesday goes? Call them Wednesday. Not about the result.\nMentioned in this episode: Kathryn Anne Edwards, Optimist Economy. Marc J. Dunkelman, Why Nothing Works. Ray D. Madoff, The Second Estate. Scott Austin Martin, Safe. Luke Burgis, Wanting. Joseph F. Coughlin, The Longevity Economy. The Act of Congress of January 23, 1845 (Election Day). The high five: Dodger Stadium, October 2, 1977.\nNo party, candidate or ballot question is named, and nobody is told how to vote. The history and the research are real.\nNew...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/RPzymqhEJRocfiSPaLcHixju8OAOT-8Y6ArVsJdSieE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wOTM5/ZWE4MTAzNGFiNWY1/NTVkYzY5YmM1NmMz/ZTQzNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}