What Patriotism Means to You (with Heidi Schreck)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Happy Fourth of July! In honor of the country’s birthday, we’re bringing you a special episode of Stay Tuned withPreet… and you! Last week, we asked you to tell us what patriotism means to you and you have moved us with your overwhelming response. Listen through to the end of today’s episode for a compilation of the many thoughtful voices we heard from. Plus, Preet reflects on YOUR answers, and what patriotism means to him. This week’s guest is Heidi Schreck. She is a playwright and an actress. She joins Preet to discuss her play, What The Constitution Means To Me. Nominated for two Tony Awards, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the show is inspired by Schrek’s time as a fifteen-year-old high school student competing in American Legion speech and debate contests, where she spoke about the meaning of our founding document. Bonus clips from the interview are available for members of the CAFE Insider community Sign up to receive free references and supplemental materials for Stay Tuned episodes, a weekly newsletter, and updates from Preet. Tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with the hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 669-247-7338 and leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:32.3	From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tuned. I'm Pete Barara.
1:37.6	Pretty quickly I started to understand that if I was going to talk about my own personal
1:41.9	connection to the Constitution, I would have to talk about my own body and the Constitution.
1:47.1	Supreme Court decisions that affected me most extremely had to do with, of course, birth
1:53.7	control, had to do with abortion. And then looking at Supreme Court decisions over the years
1:59.3	having to do with women's bodies, I realized how much violence toward women was not only
2:05.9	not addressed by our Constitution, but also sort of enshrined in it.
2:12.7	It's Heidi Shrek. She's the star of the Broadway play, what the Constitution means to me.
2:18.6	It's part memoir, part history lesson, and even part public debate. I saw the show on
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