Making Civics Cool with Ben Sheehan
At Home with Linda & Drew Scott
Drew Scott
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
There’s a lot that we need to care about and sometimes it can seem a bit daunting… and even shameful, if we don’t know enough about the things we should know about! One area we have set out to learn more about is how the heck government works and how can we not feel so helpless?
That’s where Ben Sheehan comes in.
His goal is to make regular civic participation — even beyond voting — a regular part of all of our daily lives, like flossing our teeth -- we do it a little bit, every day, and it's good for our overall long-term health (both individually and as a country)
Formerly an award-winning producer at Funny Or Die, Sheehan uses his experience in comedy and his education and unique upbringing in Washington to create easy-to-understand, non-intimidating, comedic videos to teach people about how our government works and how we can all make an impact.
Originally from the D.C. area, Sheehan graduated with high honors from Emory University with a B.A. in Political Science and American Studies, and holds an M.A. in Music Business from New York University. The videos he’s been involved with have received over a billion views. For the 2016 election, his comedic videos helped get 50,000 voters registered! In 2018 he was named one of the entertainment industry’s “NextGen: 35 Rising Executives Under 35” by The Hollywood Reporter.
Connect with Ben:
Instagram: @bensheehan
Twitter: @thatbensheehan
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OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?
and a kids-safe version, What Does the Constitution Say?
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| 0:00.0 | My hope is that people connect the issue they care about more to the people who actually affect that issue. |
| 0:06.0 | I think there's a tendency in our country to just assume that the president does everything or the Supreme Court does everything. |
| 0:11.5 | But in reality, the federal government, if you read the book and the Constitution, it's like the federal government is limited. |
| 0:19.1 | It's only supposed to do a few pretty big and substantial things, but there's so much more power at our state and local |
| 0:26.0 | levels. Hello. Hello, welcome to at home. This is a place where we explore all the nooks |
| 0:32.5 | and crannies of what makes us feel at home. The good, the meh, and the messy. We've been together |
| 0:37.4 | over 10 years and we still |
| 0:38.8 | have a lot to learn about each other. I've been with myself for a long time and I still haven't |
| 0:43.9 | figured myself out. It's the process. Well, there will be heated debates. Yeah, because Drew has |
| 0:49.0 | very strong opinions about everything, like leaving the toilet lit up. |
| 0:54.4 | Well, hey, we'll just bring in experts to help us solve those. |
| 0:56.7 | What about you, though, leaving hair dolls in the shower? |
| 0:58.7 | Ew. |
| 0:59.6 | Those are gifts. |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah, that no one wants. |
| 1:03.7 | This is all a part of our life at home. |
| 1:25.0 | It feels like home. Hello, hello. Thank you so much for joining us. I mean, we know that there's a lot on our minds. Everyone's minds right now with everything that's happening in the world. |
| 1:27.5 | Oh, you're getting right into it. I am. Yeah. I just. I just wanted to say, you know, the thing for us is this has made us realize everything that's |
| 1:34.0 | happening with Ukraine that there's so much we don't know about the history of the different |
| 1:39.7 | countries. |
| 1:40.2 | And even here in the U.S., the history of our own country here, we don't understand. |
| 1:44.9 | Even Canada, where we were born. |
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