792 - Ben Sheehan (Part 2): OMG WTF Does the constitution actually say?

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In Part 1 of the episode, Ben Sheehan and I talked about his time in Funny or Die, and his new book, OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?: A Non-Boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work. We list some of the interesting and vague constitutions, and see if they're still relevant now? In this part 2 of the episode, we broke down what does some of those constitutions actually meant, and if he were to make any changes to the constitutions, what kind of changes would he make? Listen to this Part 2 out of 2, and make sure you check out Part 1 if you missed it! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:07.6	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:13.6	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:17.5	Part one we discussed is the world getting stupider and we also discussed how to make a video
0:23.5	viral.
0:24.5	What are the key components?
0:25.5	I think that it a little bit more in this episode but the focus of this episode is book what
0:31.2	the F does the constitution say.
0:33.1	Here's Ben Sheehan.
0:42.7	Starting with the first amendment, it seems like even there's so much controversy around
0:47.6	each amendment but like the first amendment, freedom of speech.
0:50.5	I think nobody really knows what that means because there was all this argument about like,
0:54.3	oh, why can this person say this thing on Twitter and this person can't and blah, blah,
0:58.6	blah.
0:59.6	Obviously it means, okay, freedom of speech and if you're standing on publicly held land,
1:06.2	I guess.
1:07.2	What is freedom of speech?
1:09.6	Freedom of speech is actually the first amendment can best be understood by the very first
1:15.7	word of the amendment, which is Congress.
1:18.2	So that Congress cannot pass a law to restrict freedom of speech to create a religion that
1:25.0	you have to join to ban a religion to prevent free press, to prevent people from assembling
1:32.6	peaceably, to prevent people from protesting, which they called petitioning the government
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