President Trump is back in Washington, pursuing major policy changes on his own terms.

We know from the past that means challenging precedent, busting norms, and pushing against the status quo.

NPR is covering it all with Trump's terms, a podcast where we curate stories about the 47th president with the focus on how he is upending the way Washington works.

Listen to Trump's terms from NPR.

Before we get started, we just wanted to let you know that this episode contains descriptions of human sacrifice.

Now, on with the show.

Okay, so several months back, one of ThruLines producers, Lawrence Wu, came to a pitch meeting with this wild story.

It was one of those pitches that immediately made all of us sit up in our seats and listen.

It had layers that just kept getting deeper and deeper, and I don't want to ruin it for you.

So obviously, I will just say that it's about an object, a thing that just sat around on a

shelf for decades, going pretty much unnoticed.

But in 2015, that changed.

And it changed because a first-year college student decided it needed to change.

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Sorry, I'm trying to untangle this headphones.

So, you know we have to call her up.

Okay, have fans, oh.

Okay, awesome.

First, how are you?

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