Inside the Episode: S2E01
1865
Airship / Wondery
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In the first of our three prologue episodes, we flashback to the events leading up to President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, starting with a famous dinner between Edwin Stanton and Charles Dickens.
In this Inside the Episode bonus feature, hear co-executive producer Robert McCollum interview the creators Steven Walters and Erik Archilla about the true history behind the podcast.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Inside the Episode 1865. It is so good to be back with you. This is Rob McCollum, |
| 0:14.0 | one of the producers of 1865. Joining me is always Stephen Walters and Eric Archilla, our creative |
| 0:21.2 | team. Guys, it's been so long. Welcome back. Hey, did anything weird happen while we were gone? |
| 0:25.8 | I think there was some new stuff I was checking in on a lot of other podcasts. I don't know. I missed a lot |
| 0:32.7 | of it. I blocked out. I have no idea what happened. It was good to see your face today. Yes, |
| 0:38.4 | yes. The first time in a very long time that we have all seen each other in person, even though we |
| 0:42.8 | are recording still remotely and separate in separate booths right now. We had hoped to bring you |
| 0:49.4 | at least a portion of this season earlier in last year and then with COVID that became untenable |
| 0:56.3 | and impossible. But now we are back and recording. I just wanted to thank everybody who has listened |
| 1:02.0 | and made this show quite the phenomenon. Eric, what are we up to now? We're up to 3.5 million |
| 1:07.8 | downloads and counting. That's pretty remarkable for a show that only has 16 episodes. So it's |
| 1:13.3 | pretty awesome. That's great. I just want to say that we make this show for the listeners. When |
| 1:19.5 | we first made it, we didn't even know if we would have any listeners. So it's really, really |
| 1:22.9 | cool to know that we do. So thank you to everybody who listened to the show and we hope you enjoy |
| 1:27.3 | season two. The story of you this season is great. That's actually a good segue for us, Steve, |
| 1:31.6 | because with season one, we had no idea that this was going to get any kind of public reaction. |
| 1:37.2 | We had no idea if we were going to make a season two. So we made some choices in terms of how to |
| 1:43.2 | structure and bottle that story so that it very much was the Stanton arc all the way through the |
| 1:47.2 | impeachment. Now when you guys were faced with the topic of how to move this story forward and |
| 1:53.2 | where it was going to go from there, how did you approach where you wanted to start and move into |
| 1:59.1 | season two? Well, yeah, I mean, you touched on it, Rob, but you know, an Eric and I's early |
| 2:03.6 | conversations about what we wanted to do. It was obvious that we wanted to tell the larger |
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