The Obama Star Trek Theory (2004) w/ Ian Chillag
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
It’s September 6th. On this day Star Trek debuted. We are discussing Star Trek because of a convoluted theory that if the actress Jeri Ryan had never been cast on the series Star Trek: Voyager, Barack Obama would never have become president.
Jody and Niki are joined by Ian Chillag, host of Everything Is Alive, and fan of this convoluted theory. Ian walks us through it and we discuss how much luck plays in political trajectories.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:10.0 | Get ready to join on a journey here folks to the final frontiers of political history because on this day September 8th |
| 0:16.8 | 1966 Star Trek debuted and why are we talking about Star Trek? |
| 0:21.6 | I'm gonna give you a little background. |
| 0:23.2 | When I was first conceiving of this show, I mentioned the idea of finding smaller moments from |
| 0:28.0 | political history and doing conversations around them. |
| 0:30.4 | I mentioned that to my friend Ian Chillag, immediately responded with oh are you going to do the |
| 0:34.9 | Star Trek Jerry Ryan Barack Obama theory thing and somewhere in the back of my head there was like the |
| 0:40.8 | slightest glimmer of recognition but I didn't really know what he was talking about and I put it off to the side and I said sure okay. We'll have you on some day to do the Star Trek Jerry Ryan Barack Obama theory thing and here we are and our hook is that Star Trek debuted on September 8th |
| 0:57.4 | 1966 but this is a story that took place in 2004 and here to discuss this theory our special guest Ian Chilog host of everything is a |
| 1:06.4 | live the brilliant podcast in which he interviews inanimate objects. |
| 1:10.1 | Also part of the Radiotopia Ian, welcome to the show. |
| 1:14.0 | Great to be here. |
| 1:15.0 | And of course, also with us is Nicole Hammer of Columbia. |
| 1:18.0 | Hello Nicki. |
| 1:19.0 | And Nicki, I gather you are a Star Trek fan. |
| 1:21.0 | I am a Star Trek fan. I will say not necessarily Star Trek |
| 1:25.1 | original but Star Trek Next Generation which was very much in my like early teens |
| 1:30.0 | sweet spot so I'm ready for this kind of butterfly effect theory where it goes on |
| 1:35.7 | air in 1966 and Obama becomes president in 2008. |
| 1:39.3 | Yes okay so Ian we are mostly in your capable hands here to guide us through this. |
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