The Road to Now
Hosted by Ben Sawyer and Bob and Ben and Bob Crawford · RTN Productions
4.8from 834 ratings
- 473
- Episodes
- 114
- Transcribed
- 834
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 75K
- YouTube views
About The Road to Now
Bob Crawford (The Avett Brothers) & Dr. Ben Sawyer (MTSU History) share conversations with great thinkers from a variety of backgrounds – historians, artists, legal scholars, political figures and more –who help us uncover the many roads that run between past and present. For more information, visit TheRoadToNow.com If you'd like to support our work, join us on Patreon: Patreon.com/TheRoadToNow
- Publisher
- RTN Productions
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 May 2016
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
114 of 473 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#379 The Elections of 1874 (Midterm Elections Series #2)
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#378 The Elections of 1858 (Midterm Elections Series #1)
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny w/ Jeff Bieber
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#379 The Elections of 1874 (Midterm Elections Series #2)
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's been going on for the better part of almost a decade. And now there's people in the streets. There's food riots. It's a disaster in 1873. People called it the Great Depression or the Long Depression before we had the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was enormous. And so I really do think that the structural change issues provide the shift and the opening for the Democrats to begin to push through. So we hear about the scandals of the, you know, of course there was economic hardship in the streets, but there was trouble within the Grant administration in 72 and 73. Yeah, there's a lot of scandal, corruption. […]
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- Jefferson Cowie
- Jeff Bieber
- Catherine Grace Katz
- Mack Paul
- Jeffrey Rosen
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- YouTube views
- 74,964
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 636 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 198 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100
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- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 99
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Ben Sawyer and Bob and Ben and Bob Crawford host the show. Published by RTN Productions.
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