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this is civics 101 i'm christina phillips filling in for hannah mccarthy and i'm nick

apadice hi Hi, Nick.

Hi, Christina. So today, I want to tell you a story. All right. This story begins in the late

90s. We've got Clinton as the president. We've got Newt Gingrich is bopping around.

Okay?

Oh, yeah.

Is this about the Republican takeover?

Not really.

Okay.

It's not.

But it's just what I think of when I think of the 90s.

So what's this story about?

So this is a story about two friends named Bruce and Scott,

who love thinking about and talking about the Constitution.

And one day, back in the 90s, they find themselves, like two friends, debating the finale of severance, discussing the meaning of one constitutional amendment in particular.

This is the amendment that sets term limits for the president, aka the 22nd Amendment.

It may not shock you to hear that I'm a little bit of a constitutional nerd, and I have

friends who are constitutional nerds, so a friend and I were just talking, and I think,

truth be told, he came up with the idea.

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