Roman Mars

speaker

157 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Jul

Roman Mars’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

In Our Time · The Global Story - The soft power superpower, with Roman Mars · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

And so just like a bushel of corn was more in one state than another, just in terms of weight. matched

There's like a truck sizes were allowed in one state versus not allowed in another on a road. matched

And you just cannot have... matched

a national system of commerce if these different parts don't talk to each other. matched

And so he was really interested in making all that stuff smooth and standard and making kind of one nation out of our sort of system of commerce. matched

You know, this part of this soft power, a requirement is a government that functions and thinks strategically. matched

Whereas up to that point, like you could donate enough money and become a general in the civil war. matched

Like there was nonsense about how we ran things. matched

And it really was about currying favor and giving jobs to your friends and stuff like that. matched

But through this era of the 1880s on and culminating this period, was it just a sense that a scientific method of doing things was going to make the country more powerful and also make the world a better place? matched

There was just a commitment to that and people were on board for it. matched

What ended up happening, which really enforced our standards on the world, was World War II. matched

President Roosevelt wanted us involved to save the world from the Nazis. matched

And there was this argument that he made that was, if somebody's house is burning, if you could lend a garden hose to them, you would, that's just good neighbors. matched

But, well, you have to make sure that your garden hose actually fits their hydrant for it to actually work. matched

Our factories were working. matched

We were turning stuff out, becoming part of the war. matched

And as we were like building and building and building and becoming part of things, you don't just send whole Jeeps. matched

You send parts of Jeeps. matched

And when they break, you have to have other parts that didn't work with them. matched

Showing 41–60 of 157 · page 3 of 8