The Early Years: If I Were President

Story Pirates

Lemonada Media

Comedy, Education, Kids & Family

4.5 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In the last days before the 2016 Presidential election, the Story Pirates present a very special podcast episode featuring "If I Were President" by then-kindergartener Jackson Evans. We've turned Jackson's story into a song, and we want YOU to record your own version to share! Share it on YouTube, Instagram, or Facebook with the hashtag #ifiwerepresident or record a version to send to us for a podcast episode that will feature some of your masterpieces. Visit http://storypirates.org/president to find lyrics, sheet music, a demo track and more! A big thanks to Story Pirates Daniel Liu, Elena Skopetos, Peter Russo, Dominique Brillon & Jack Mitchell! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Story Pyrrheath Podcast.
0:03.8	My name is Peter McNerney and you might have noticed that the Story Pyrrheath Podcast
0:08.2	is on a bit of a hiatus right now.
0:10.7	We're taking a little break as our pirate captain Lee Overtree is out of town.
0:15.2	He's directing a play.
0:16.2	He's very busy.
0:17.2	He's very famous.
0:18.5	And so until he returns, we're just going to take a little breather.
0:20.5	We're going to come back pretty soon with a whole new batch of stories and a whole new
0:23.9	batch of interviews from all of our amazing authors.
0:26.9	But before that happens, we're going to do a few special
0:29.5	one-off podcasts starting with this one.
0:32.0	Now, some of you might have heard there's a little bit of an election coming up next
0:36.1	week.
0:37.1	So we thought, okay, what could we do?
0:39.2	And we went through the archives and we found an incredible story written by a kid called
0:45.0	If I Were President.
0:47.0	And we loved this story.
0:48.5	So we turned it into a song.
0:50.3	One of our amazing pianists, Mr. Jack Mitchell, wrote a great song based off of this awesome
0:55.0	story.
0:56.3	And we had an idea.
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