Inside the Episode: S2E10
1865
Airship / Wondery
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In the season finale, Grant’s decision to testify for Orville Babcock has disastrous consequences for the Freedmen.
In this Inside the Episode bonus feature, co-executive producer Robert McCollum interviews the creators Steven Walters and Erik Archilla about the true history behind the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Well there you have it ladies and gentlemen the final episode of 1865 the audio drama season two |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Ron McCollum one of the producers and the director of 1865 audio drama |
| 0:19.6 | Thank you for listening all the way through and thank you for coming back one last time to join us on this final |
| 0:26.6 | Inside the episode episode 10 and speaking of one last time joining me as always Eric our chilla and Stephen Walters guys |
| 0:34.7 | Congratulations, we did it. Whoo |
| 0:36.7 | Thank you, sir. Yes, thank you Rob and thank you to the audience for going on this journey with us |
| 0:41.1 | It's been a lot of work, but it's it's been tremendously gratifying to see all of your love and support online |
| 0:46.2 | We make these stories for you and so thank you for your support |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah, and as we talked about at the beginning of the season we weren't planning on doing a season two |
| 0:53.9 | We had tied the knot we'd wrapped it up and because of fans support and and people wanting more and supporting us on |
| 1:01.2 | Patreon if you're not a member of patreon that's patreon forward slash 1865 podcast |
| 1:06.4 | But because of that support we were able to consider doing a season two and I'm really glad we did honestly |
| 1:12.8 | So thank you all thank you for your support. I am also really glad we did |
| 1:16.2 | I love that we've gotten to learn about this amazing new character |
| 1:19.3 | Ulysses has Grant from a different perspective than I think a lot of people know him |
| 1:22.4 | So I'm super happy we did it, but I know Steve and Eric both there were sometimes midseason where you were less than happy that we did it because |
| 1:30.1 | This turned out to be a real writing challenge this season. Yeah, absolutely |
| 1:34.6 | I mean the honestly one of the biggest challenges was is that we changed the way we were distributing the episode |
| 1:40.9 | A mid-strived the original plan was to release it is three little mini series |
| 1:46.5 | Three to four episodes each the first chapter would be about you know putting Grant back into the impeachment story |
| 1:52.4 | of Andrew Johnson the second chapter would be about grants war with the KKK and the third and final chapter would be about the whiskey ring |
| 1:59.0 | Of course that held but we just sort of had to compress the timeline and so we were sort of in a state of of hurry up |
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