Inauguration Day Special (and Kellie's First Show!)
This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this Inauguration Day 2021, we look back at some notable other transition ceremonies, and discuss whether the day is pure symbolism or if it actually matters.
Plus, a big announcement about the show — Kellie Carter Jackson is joining as a third host! Find out more about her, Jody Avirgan, and Nicole Hemmer on our website.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day an esoteric political history from Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:11.0 | Today's episode, a bit of an inauguration special January 20th 2021 is of course |
| 0:16.1 | inauguration day and that is our hook for this episode we are going to look at a few |
| 0:20.6 | notable inauguration days in the past, especially those that are, say, a little chillier than normal. |
| 0:27.8 | In the past, three outgoing presidents, John Adams in 1801, John Quincy Adams in 1829 and Andrew Johnson in 1869 refused to attend their |
| 0:38.6 | successors inaugurations. A few other outgoing presidents have missed the |
| 0:42.4 | inauguration for one reason or another, |
| 0:44.0 | but those are the three that appear to be the most fueled by pettiness, if that's the right way to put it. |
| 0:49.0 | And Donald Trump, of course, will add his name to that list. |
| 0:51.0 | He will be the fourth to not attend his successor's |
| 0:53.9 | inauguration there have been other contentious inauguration moments as well so we are |
| 0:58.1 | mixing it up a bit and talking about a number of interesting moments on |
| 1:01.8 | today's show and here to do that as always is |
| 1:04.5 | Nicole Hammer of Columbia. Hello Nicky. Hey Jody. And listeners that is not the only way we are |
| 1:10.6 | mixing things up on today's show because we are really |
| 1:13.2 | excited to announce that starting today we are adding a third host to this show |
| 1:17.0 | Kelly Kelly Kelli Jackson of Wellesley is joining our team Kelly. Welcome |
| 1:21.0 | hello hello hi welcome Kelly everyone Kelly welcome |
| 1:24.0 | everyone |
| 1:25.0 | everyone excited to be here yeah we are really excited to have you and listeners close |
| 1:29.3 | listeners will know that you've been on with us a couple times before but I don't know this is your |
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