Welcome to another episode of The Oath and the Office with Professor Corey Brechtner. I'm John Fiegel-Seng. So great to be with you. And it's always a pleasure to be with the author of the book, The Oath in the Office, a Guide to the U.S. Constitution for Future Presidents. He is also, of course, the author of the Presidents and the People, and he is my favorite Ivy League Political Science professor, who still returns my calls. Professor Brett Schneider is so good to see you. Welcome. Thanks so much, John. I love that compliment.

There's a local paper in Rhode Island that used to do Best of, and it would be like best pizza place on the corner of Thayer and Hope.

And actually Thayer doesn't intersect with Hope, but Thayer and William Street, and it would only be one place.

So I guess I've got that compliment. And let let me just thank you not only for these great discussions and these great interviews that we've

done but we're both on vacation and so devoted to the oath in the office podcast that here we are

from what looked like prison cells but are actually hotel rooms and really I thank you for for your devotion to

the listeners and to the topics and to fighting this crisis of democracy and and having hope even

as the world seems to be be burning and looking forward to talking about listener questions

which keep coming we don't have enough time to do all of them but we'll'll do some every once in a while, and today will be one of them.

You're going to talk about, of course, pardons and truth and reconciliation, federalism, and a lot of amazing topics today.

Well, Corey, as always, you don't have to thank me. My parole officer said I had to, so it's no worries.

I am so glad to be talking with you,

though, during such an historic week for satire. I think it's not really overestimating it to say

that history, broadcast history was made last week with the 27th season premiere of South Park,

and they pretty much walked into a burning building

with a can of gasoline and a flamethrower.

I don't want to say too much about the episode,

but I have to tell our listeners,

do not just go by what you're seeing,

the little clips on social media.

You have to commit yourself to a full 22 minutes of watching.

Now, I know for an American, watching something for 22 minutes straight can be very difficult at this point.

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