A US Senator destroyed by blackmail.

He was not bound by the truth or by facts.

The country's most outrageous political demagogue

ascending toward the peak of American power.

Millions upon millions of devoted followers.

This is a story of heroes willing to face down tyranny

and the risk to the country if they fail.

Rachel Maddo presents Ultra, season two of the chart-topping original podcast.

Listen now. Welcome to the 49ers Insider Podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.

Introducing your host, San Francisco 49ers Insider,

Matt Mayoko.

This is the 49ers Insider Podcast. I'm Matt Mayoko and she's everybody's best friend, Laura Britt.

Am I? I hope I'm everybody's best friend?

That's a tool in my life.

No, you're everybody's best friend, Lauren.

And hey, over the weekend,

spur of the moment thing, my daughter who's going to be entering her senior year of high school said, you know, I'd like to get up there and see those Oregon schools.

She's deciding where she wants to apply. So we got in our car the next day and just drove,

what is it, eight hours north and went to Corvallis.

And while I was walking around the campus and went over to the football field like I always do I always check out the sports facilities.

I saw some some players out there working on their swim moves and their past rush moves and I thought, you know, I'm just gravitate, I gravitate toward

that, toward players in the summer months, working out, and we're getting closer, I think think to the 49ers doing that.

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