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Ologies with Alie Ward

Nomology (THE CONSTITUTION) with Franita Tolson

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

If you've never read The Constitution, you're like most of us. What does it even say?! Most Americans aren't law scholars, which is why we sat down with a Dean of USC's Gould School of Law, Professor Franita Tolson, to have her give us the crib sheet on the most important document in the free world. What's up with the amendments? What are the articles? What does it mean to be an American? What rights do we have? How did we get them and how do we keep them? We also discuss what it was like having Barack Obama as her law professor, if she reads the Apple Terms & Conditions, the Civil Rights Movement, Hamilton, whether Trump can be impeached, how to get familiar with the best SCOTUS gossip and Shonda Rhimes. By the end of the episode, you'll be able to wink at the Constitution and say "I get you" and you also might be engaging in more peaceful protests or applying to law school or hanging Professor Tolson's portrait on your wall. Follow Franita Tolson at Twitter.com/ProfTolson and read more about her work here. More links at alieward.com/ologies/nomology A donation went to the American Civil Liberties Union. Learn more at www.aclu.org Sponsor links: Progressive.com; TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/Ologies; WITHCOVE.com/ologies; OhMyGut.info/podcast Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0

Oh hey, it's a dish of whipped jello salad with canned fruit that looks appalling, but tastes okay.

0:07.0

Allie Wart.

0:08.0

Back with a very important episode of allergies.

0:11.0

So you know I show up in your head holes each week to the softly babble about bird butts and word origins and personality quizzes, but this week, the week of July 4th,

0:21.0

the most searingly patriotic coconut oil barbecue smoked flag draped day in America.

0:27.0

I thought I would just drop a little context on you in an entire episode, elucidating what it is to be an American and a deep dive into our constitution.

0:35.0

Who's reddit?

0:38.0

I don't even know what the hell it is or what it says.

0:40.0

I know it's got some really enviable calligraphy.

0:43.0

It's on yellowish paper.

0:45.0

It's signed by a bunch of dead guys, but what does it say?

0:48.0

Why does it matter?

0:49.0

So here to help dissect it is one of the nation's best constitutional law scholars.

0:54.0

You might be thinking constitution, mord, this is not thrilling.

0:58.0

This is old, this is history, it's law, it's dry.

1:02.0

Oh, contrary, it turns out that there is nothing more punk rock, more rebellious and more future thinking than studying the constitution and figuring out how to apply it to make life better for all people.

1:17.0

I wish I had paid attention to this decades ago because this is some badass shit right here.

1:21.0

But first, let me pay attention to you, lovelies, and thank everyone on Patreon for makingologies possible with your pledges and questions that I get to read out loud.

1:29.0

Thank you to everyone who shopsatologiesmerch.com and sports their wares.

1:34.0

And thank you to everyone keepingologies up in the science charts.

1:38.0

Just smoking the very well-staffed MPR shows out there each week, which is a personal victory for all that word.

1:44.0

So you rating and subscribing totally matter so much as do your reviews, which I creep with hard eyes and I read a new one each week just to prove it.

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