Bonus Bag Man, Episode 1: An Unsettling Secret

The Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow, MS NOW

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4.4 • 35.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

He was brash. Politically incorrect. An “outsider” political candidate who rose to the White House, out of nowhere, with a reputation as a “counter-puncher.” But Vice President Spiro Agnew was also something else… an active criminal whose secrets were about to be exposed. What happens when a “counter-puncher” in the White House suddenly sees his political future directly threatened by investigators inside his own Justice Department? Reference links, transcripts and more at MSNBC.com/BagMan. Contact us via e-mail at BagManPod@gmail.com.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's me, Rachel Maddo.
0:02.0	Hi, you may have noticed that this thing that's popped into your podcast feed is something
0:06.7	different from the Nightly Rachel Maddo Show podcast that you usually listen to here.
0:11.8	Do not worry, that show is still in your feed right next to this one.
0:16.7	But I also wanted you to hear the first episode of my new original podcast, which is called
0:21.4	Bagman.
0:23.2	Bagman has just launched, I'm very excited about it.
0:26.8	I should tell you it's not an ongoing thing.
0:28.6	It's basically kind of a mini series, just seven episodes in total.
0:32.6	If you like this first episode, just search Bagman, again two words, Bagman in whatever app
0:38.8	you're using right now to listen to podcasts.
0:41.1	And you'll be able to subscribe to get all the future episodes.
0:44.2	In fact, episode two is already there right now.
0:47.2	So if you like this one, go check out that one too.
0:49.9	All right, thanks.
0:50.9	Thanks for listening.
1:04.5	When Richard Nixon tapped a Spiro Agnew, Ted to his friends, to be his running mate in
1:10.2	1968, this was the Ted Agnew that the country was introduced to.
1:15.2	You're kind of meant to that you miss.
1:22.5	Agnew was a fresh face in national politics.
1:25.6	He wasn't much known at all outside of Maryland where he had just been elected governor.
1:30.2	Heck, he wasn't even all that well-known in Maryland.
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