Introducing: The Experiment

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A new podcast from The Atlantic and WNYC Studios, The Experiment, tells stories from our unfinished country. On the first episode, host Julia Longoria tells the story of the “zone of death,” where a legal glitch could short-circuit the Constitution—a place where, technically, you could get away with murder. At a time when we’re surrounded by preventable deaths, we document one journey to avert disaster. Listen and subscribe to The Experiment: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, crazy genius listeners. I'm Julia Lungoria, host of a new weekly podcast called The Experiment
0:06.7	from the Atlantic and WNYC Studios. It's about the powerful ideas that shape the United States
0:12.8	and what happens when those ideas collide with people's everyday lives. Today, we're sharing
0:18.5	with you the first episode of The Experiment. It's a story about an elk hunter, a glitch in the
0:24.9	Constitution, and a quest to prevent disaster. If you like what you hear, please subscribe to our show,
0:30.8	search for the experiment, wherever you get podcasts, or visit theatlantic.com slash experiment.
0:54.9	Hi, Mike. This is Julia Lungoria from the Atlantic and WNYC. How you doing? I'm doing good. How you doing? Good.
1:20.0	We are going to just kind of jump in. Are you ready to go back in time? Sure. Okay, cool.
1:31.5	Who were you in December of 2005? I was a real rowdy guy, I guess you could say. Why do you think
1:39.8	you were rowdy at that time? It does like beat people up. 15 years ago, Mike Beldrain was a little
1:47.2	rough around the edges. He was a bit of an asshole. There were a lot of things that pissed him off,
1:58.1	but there was one thing that he loved completely. I mean, I lived to hunt elk, literally. I lived
2:05.8	to hunt elk. He lived in Montana, not far from Yellowstone National Park, where elk are everywhere,
2:16.8	and Mike had the hunt down to an art form. elk hunt is hard, but if you could call good,
2:24.2	you know, I'd guarantee my hunters a shot at 30 yards and closer. What is that? I'm sorry,
2:29.2	I'm like from Miami, Florida. I live in Brooklyn. I got nothing. What does that mean? So you have
2:36.1	a cow call, you imitate a cow call and you call them in. So you make the sound of a cow because like
2:43.1	the elk are looking for cows to with whom to mate. Is that what it is? Okay. Pretty
2:51.0	clever way to die. Can you can you do it for me? No.
3:02.9	So why you might ask, are we talking to this self-proclaimed asshole about killing elk?
3:09.3	It's because of this one particular elk, a star crossed elk, that changed the course of
3:17.4	Mike Belderine's life and walked him right into a hole in the U.S. Constitution.
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