Hi, Sandra.

And Ilya, and hello everyone.

We are back from Pineapple Street Studios, Wondery and Amazon Music.

This is Will Be Wild, bonus edition.

So since our podcast first launched, thanks to you, it became the number one podcast.

Thank you so much for listening and for coming with us on this journey.

We thought that we had wrapped up that journey, but then the Select Committee investigating

the attack on the Capitol announced a slate of hearings for the month of June.

When we left you at the end of episode eight, we were talking about accountability.

We were talking about getting the story of January 6 down for history.

In the first prime time hearing, representative Benny Thompson picked up right where we

left off in the middle of the United States Civil War back in the 1860s.

In 1862, when American citizens had taken up arms against this country, Congress adopted

a new oath to help make sure no person who had supported the rebellion could hold a position

of public trust.

Therefore, Congress persons and United States federal government employees were required

for the first time to swear an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign

and domestic.

That oath was put to test on January 6, 2021.

This oath thing really, really resonated with me.

In the course of our reporting, I kept hearing, like interview after interview, people mentioned

the oath that they swear people working at agencies, people in the military, and the

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