Roman Mars

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

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

I don't know. matched

We just got used to it. matched

And there's a certain part of like, once you start feeling your power of like, people are going to do what you want to do, you start capriciously sort of exercising that power. matched

And that seems to be one of them. matched

Yeah. matched

Again, it's not free of coercion and force. matched

It's not all benevolent. matched

But it is so much better than guns and bombs. matched

And I argue it's so much more effective as proof of the fact that the 20th century was very much the American century by the time it was done. matched

And it was done in a way that... matched

was really new, like its empire was a small e empire of influence. matched

But then the other part of that, of our equation was that the cultural exports of the United States are second to none. matched

The rock and roll and the music and stuff like this, we painted ourselves as the heroes of the world. matched

And just getting English around the world, which is like, I don't know, the UK did a good job getting that going. matched

But people think in stories, matched

And we have this ability to export our story. matched

And a lot of people bought it in ways that benefited the United States in so many ways. matched

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At the least. matched

And infuriating. matched

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