#226 Does The Constitution Cover Pandemics? Ft. Ben Sheehan

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Constitution is the terms and conditions we all live by. But how many of us have taken the time to digest its dense sentences and outdated language? On today’s episode, we spoke with Ben Sheehan, whose book “OMG, WTF Does The Constitution Actually Say?” takes a funny, accessible look at our nation’s founding document and how its 300-year-old rules apply to us today. Ben answers all your questions about the Constitution, including why we never change it anymore, whether it gives guidance for presidential power during a pandemic, and which rights we think we have, but actually don’t. “OMG, WTF Does The Constitution Actually Say?” is available for purchase now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Betches Media Presents.
0:02.0	It's one person coming in from China.
0:04.3	It's going to disappear.
0:05.6	One day, it's like a miracle it will.
0:07.2	We're going to all be great.
0:08.2	We're going to be so good.
0:09.4	This is a pandemic.
0:10.6	The Betches suck podcast. No, I don't take responsibility at all.
0:15.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Betches Up Daily Corona Cast.
0:20.0	This is Amanda.
0:21.0	Today's episode is a little different. We have an interview for you today. I am here with Ben Sheehan. Ben is a former award winning executive producer at Funier Die. He's the founder and executive director of O. M. G. W.T.F, a nonpartisan group focused on civic engagement for adults.
0:36.4	And today he's releasing his book titled O. M. G. W. T.F.
0:39.6	Does the Constitution actually say?
0:41.6	It's a funny and accessible annotated guide to the Constitution. Constitution actually
0:45.0	understand.
0:49.0	Thank you so much for joining us, Ben.
0:50.0	Thank you for having me.
0:51.0	It's an honor.
0:52.0	Awesome. Cool. So I just wanted to sort of I was really curious about why you wrote this book and
0:58.0	how you sort of became interested in this topic. Sure so So I started this organization, O. M.G.W. T. T. T. T. T. T. T. T. T. T. T. T. S. And those are the states we were active in. And we did a in
1:13.4	and those are the states we were active in and we did events to get out the vote in some of those
1:17.2	states we did fundraising events to help raise money for
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