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This is not 99% of it's bowl, but I am Roman Mars.

So I created a secret side project podcast with a friend of mine.

The goal was to take some of my anxiety about the political news and turn it into something constructive and fun and interesting and share it with people.

And I hope you like it. I hope you subscribe. I hope you tell all your friends.

Let's send it to the top of the charts. That would be nice. I want to take all of this energy and do something good.

Like learning the US Constitution. So here's the introductory episode. Thanks.

The whole idea for this series came from a tweet. It was by Elizabeth Jo. She's a professor at the UC Davis School of Law.

And I know her personally because our kids go to the same elementary school.

Elizabeth's tweet read and I'm paraphrasing a little bit so it sounds better when I read it out loud.

Teaching constitutional law in 2017 means glancing at Twitter every five minutes before a class.

First I laughed, then I retweeted it, and then I wondered, what does that mean exactly?

I mean, I kind of have an idea of what constitutional law is.

It's a class that's sometimes called the structural aspect of the Constitution.

That is the aforementioned law professor Elizabeth Jo.

So I talk about things like the separation of powers.

What are the different powers of the president versus Congress?

I also talk about federalism. So how much power Congress has as opposed to state legislatures?

It's nothing but it's usually a requirement if you're going to be a lawyer.

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