Mary in America
Hosted by Mary · Mary Childs
4.8from 51 ratings
- 21
- Episodes
- 17
- Transcribed
- 51
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About Mary in America
Mary in America is a weekly conversation about how the machine of society works. Journalist and author Mary Childs jumps into the minds of the greatest, most interesting people who are shaping the world we live in, to understand the structures we build, the stories we tell, the games we play, and the choices we make. Why is it like that? Who made it that way? Should we change it? Can we?
- Publisher
- Mary Childs
- Category
- business · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 May 2026
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
17 of 21 episodes have a transcript.
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The Millionaires Hiding in Plain Sight
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Save you a step. Save, yeah, these entrepreneurs or self-employed people a step. And we in this country love small businesses. Small business is a paragon of American exceptionalism. Why are you laughing so much? Tell the people. It's amazing to me. If you look at Gallup's approval rating of institutions, the small business is more venerated than the military. It's more venerated than the Supreme Court, the Congress, the media. Well, well. There's like no institution that has higher ratings than small business. Fascinating. So that's an amazing fact of life today. It also means that if you're not a small business, but like maybe could claim to be, you want to be. […]
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- Eric Zwick
- Min Jin Lee
- Aditi Sahasrabuddhe
- Emily Oster
- Ed Al-Hussainy
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