The Inaugural Episode
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley shares his predictions and warnings for writing historical narratives about the end of the Trump presidency. He also discusses Trump’s decision to not attend the inauguration and how we should apply the 25th Amendment in the 21st century. This is the first installment in a new Deep Background series focusing on power in different fields and forms.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:08.9 | Hey there, it's Michael Lewis, author of Going Infinite, The Big Short, Moneyball, and Liars Poker. |
| 0:14.2 | On the latest season of my podcast, Against the Rules, I'm exploring what it means to be a sports fan in America, and what the rise of sports betting is doing to our teams, our states, and ourselves. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm heading to Las Vegas and New Jersey and beyond |
| 0:27.7 | to understand America's newest form of legalized gambling. |
| 0:31.3 | Listen to Against the Rules on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. |
| 0:35.2 | Open your free IHart app, search against the rules, and start listening. |
| 0:41.8 | From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories behind |
| 0:47.7 | the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. This episode comes at the end of one of the most |
| 0:53.8 | tumultuous presidencies in U.S. |
| 0:56.5 | history. And this episode is coming out on January 20th, the day Donald Trump will leave the |
| 1:03.2 | White House and Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States. This episode also |
| 1:09.9 | comes at the beginning of a new season here on Deep Background. |
| 1:13.8 | This year on the show, we'll be exploring the theme of power. |
| 1:18.7 | Who has it? |
| 1:19.9 | How do they get it? |
| 1:21.2 | Who doesn't have it and why? |
| 1:23.3 | How is power used? |
| 1:24.9 | What is power in different realms? |
| 1:30.8 | And how does power shape current events? |
| 1:37.9 | Over the course of the year, we'll be discussing many forms of power, well beyond the strictly legal or political or constitutional. To start off this new season, given the January 6th attack on Congress and Trump's second impeachment, |
| 1:47.0 | we're going to talk today about how power functions in the presidency. |
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