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On the Media

The Trump Inc. Podcast Made a Time Capsule

On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A birth certificate, a bar receipt, a newspaper ad, a board game, a Ziploc bag of shredded paper, a pair of museum tickets, some checks, and a USB drive. The series finale of Trump, Inc.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Bob Garfield, and this is the On the Media Midweek podcast.

0:04.0

This week we're featuring the latest and sadly the final episode of the podcast, Trump, Inc., produced and reported by our colleagues in the WNYC Newsroom.

0:15.1

They had a great run, better than Trump himself, and you should definitely go back and check out their archives.

0:21.7

The episode opens with Ilya Maritz, Andrea Bernstein, and the rest of the Trump, Inc. team

0:27.4

on a field trip.

0:33.2

We're now on an unpaved road.

0:36.2

Your destination is on the right.

0:38.3

On a bright,

0:50.3

On a bright, sunny, cold day in January 2021,

0:53.3

a bunch of us who make Trump Inc did something

0:56.2

we don't get to do much anymore because of the pandemic.

0:59.2

All right, now we're finally all five of us here.

1:01.7

Woo-hoo!

1:02.3

Oh, my gosh.

1:03.4

It's really something.

1:04.6

Well, so nice to see everybody in real life, I have to say.

1:07.8

I miss you guys.

1:08.7

We met up in person.

1:10.2

It was right after Trump encouraged an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,

1:14.7

and shortly before he was impeached as a result,

1:18.0

we picked a location none of us had been to before,

1:20.7

a place we knew we could be outside.

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