WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? A conversation with Ben Sheehan

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today’s pod is a Candid Conversation with former award-winning executive producer at Funny or Die and author of OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? Ben has written a book that is essentially a modern day breakdown of our founding documents that explains all the things we never properly learned in school in an easily digestible book filled with humor. Now, obviously it would take more than one podcast to talk about the entire constitution, so today we’re going to focus on the first 12 Amendments which are the amendments that were ratified prior to the Civil War with the first 10 being what we know as the Bill of Rights. Fun way to learn what we should already know but probably don’t, with a little modern context mixed in. Guest social: https://linktr.ee/thatbensheehan Twitter: @ThatBenSheehan Buy the book: https://www.blackdogandleventhal.com/titles/ben-sheehan/omg-wtf-does-the-constitution-actually-say/9780762498482/ Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl Thank you to today’s sponsors! trymiracle.com/politicsgirl Code: PoliticsGirl greenchef.com/PoliticsGirl60 Code: PoliticsGirl60 https://genwhypod.com/

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0:00.0	I mean, if our founding fathers had seen air conditioning or a cell phone, they probably
0:03.7	would have thought it was like the devil at work.
0:05.5	I mean, they were so far out of like their realm of understanding.
0:09.6	They were incredibly brilliant people, but like, this was a long time ago.
0:24.1	Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast.
0:26.8	I'm your host, Lee McGowan.
0:28.1	Let's get into it.
0:29.4	Today's pod is a candid conversation with Ben Shean.
0:32.2	Ben is a former award-winning executive producer at Funnier Die,
0:35.7	and the founder of OMGWTF, which brilliantly stood for Ohio, Michigan, Georgia,
0:41.6	Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, which he created to teach voters about state executive races
0:46.6	during the 2018 midterms.
0:48.7	He has been named by the Hollywood Reporter as one of entertainment's 35 rising executives
0:53.5	under 35, and in 2016, Ben helped register 50,000 voters through digital videos
1:00.3	as the executive director of Save the Day.
1:02.5	To this day, the projects he's been involved in have received over a billion views online.
1:07.1	I'm having Ben on to talk about his book, OMGWTF, as the Constitution actually say.
1:13.2	Ben has written a book that is essentially a modern day breakdown of our founding documents
1:18.8	that explains all of the things you never properly learned in school
1:21.9	in an easily digestible book filled with humor.
1:25.1	When the book was published, Arnold Schwarzenegger said,
1:27.9	I wish this book had existed 50 years ago when I moved to the United States.
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