Inside the Episode: S2E02

1865

Airship / Wondery

Fiction, Drama, Government, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, History

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the second of our three prologue episodes, we meet General Grant, who finds himself ensnared in the political battle between Stanton and Johnson.

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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Inside the Episode, Episode 2 of our special Prologue episodes,
0:13.9	bridging the gap between seasons 1 and season 2.
0:17.0	I am one of the producers and directors Rob McCollum and Jordan Meas always are Eric
0:21.6	Archela and Stephen Walters.
0:23.6	Thank you Rob.
0:24.6	Glad to be here.
0:25.6	We are continuing with the framing device of the Charles Dickens dinner with Edwin
0:32.8	Stanton, the fascinating and real event that of course you have imagined what the conversation
0:38.8	was.
0:39.8	But I really love that this kind of one framing device has taken us through these two
0:43.0	episodes and we'll come back one more time when we are in the flashback portion of this
0:48.4	of this season.
0:50.0	And it's just again their personalities and him starting to correct.
0:55.0	Dickens view is on his own writing I think is very Stanton.
0:59.1	Yeah it is very Stanton.
1:01.2	I just I mean I know we talked a little bit about this in the last episode but it's just
1:05.6	hilarious to me that Stanton was able to quote Dickens in a way that Dickens didn't
1:09.4	know what he was talking about.
1:10.4	He was like what was that from?
1:11.9	I just think that's amazing.
1:13.9	So we move in now to the to the real efforts to to bring grant on side and we start off
1:20.8	with an attempt of Johnson talking to Grant after they've come back from the swing around
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