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Stuff You Should Know

SYSK Selects: How Filibusters Work

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this week's SYSK Select episode, although lots of people incorrectly believe the filibuster was an intentional rule created by the founders of the U.S., this ancient method of stalling legislation was actually brought about in America by accident. Lear

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.0

Hey everybody, this is Chuck and surprise.

0:34.2

You get a bonus episode this week and every Saturday moving forward with our S.Y.S.K.

0:39.4

Selects episode.

0:41.4

So what we decided to do was to kind of, you know, not everyone knows we have all these

0:46.6

back episodes laying in weight to the tune of 900+.

0:51.4

So each week, Josh will pick one, I'll pick one.

0:54.5

We're going to curate these.

0:55.5

It might be Newsy.

0:56.5

It might just be one of our favorites.

0:58.1

And we're going to publish them on Saturday.

0:59.9

So if you haven't heard this one before, enjoy it.

1:02.8

If you have, maybe listen again.

1:05.4

And this week I picked out filibusters, especially because of kind of what's going on in this

1:10.0

country right now with the looming nomination of Mr. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and the

1:17.5

threatened Democratic filibuster.

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