Who We Are: Our Foundation

I have an idea for a long form, multi part podcast. Think of What We Saw, but a different subject. 

Pros: It will be used by students for potentially decades to write papers and research projects from middle school to college.

Cons: Long to produce, time consuming, expensive, very little ROI.

Stage:

Fade in to (insert prominate political/judicial figure, the opening reader)

Reader looks into camera and recites a part of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration, or Federalist Paper.

Fade out.

At this point Bill Whittle (Host) fades in to go into detail of the meaning of each word and phrase as understood at the time of writing, then translates it into current, common, everyday language so simple, even a leftist could understand it. Using subject matter experts in history and english to explain every comma, period, and semicolon placement and how it affects the meaning of the sentence and give historical context to the reasoning behind the choices. 

Next, Bill explains how each section has been interpreted to get us where we are today, using examples of proper interpretation and pointing out where overreach has occurred, pointing back to where it is, or is not, proper based on the writing and understanding of the time.

Final act is a rereading of the exact same section on a backdrop of the text being read.

Bill did a Firewall episode back in the day on the 2nd Amendment which would be a great starting off point as the format in my head. 

Ideas on Readers would be Clarence Thomas, Col. Allen West, Sherriff Clark, even Trump if he’s willing. Not to mention you would want to balance it with opposing political views. It would have been great to have Justice Ginsburg lend her voice, as well. But you should have figures from both sides of the aisle so it wouldn’t be seen as a partisan reinterpretation by the shows protractors.