The Constitution's First Test—Washington's First Term: The Story of America [Ep. 14]
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, the new Constitution was an experiment—a unplayed sheet of music— and we wouldn't know what it would look like in actuality until people picked up their instruments. Here to tell the story of the first real test is Bill McClay, author of Land of Hope.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
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| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. And we return to our American stories |
| 0:47.6 | and our series about us, |
| 0:49.4 | the story of America series |
| 0:50.8 | with Hillsdale College professor Bill McLeigh, |
| 0:53.9 | author of Land of Hope. |
| 0:56.0 | Let's get into the story. |
| 0:57.7 | Take it away, Bill. |
| 1:02.9 | George Washington was our first president and the logical man, the inevitable man, the indispensable |
| 1:09.0 | man. |
| 1:10.3 | But the funny thing about this man is that he wasn't a politician. |
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