![]() The original classrooms were solidly constructed with rebar support, and all finished nicely. In the '80s, he came to live with them in Michigan for a few years, and they put him through college. He met them when he was a teen, back when they first visited Petit Goave. The guy she's talking to is Luc Lespenasse whom Harry put me in touch with. I kept dialing, dial after dial after dial, real fast, to make all these things operate, before he ever had a chance to think about it at all. And I dialed three more numbers, and the other window came up, and I dialed three more numbers, and the top started coming up.Īnd so I just kind of flooded. And when I dial the fourth time and the engine started- and then I saw his eyes kind of- no, that didn't just happen.īut before he had a chance to really recover from that, I dialed three more numbers real quick, and all of a sudden, the windows started coming up, moving his arm off the side of the door. And I dial one, I dial twice, I dial three times. So when I reached for it, the light turned on, which powered it. ![]() ![]() Anybody could play around with that switch and make all that stuff happen. I could not have power to the dial at all times. I had a switch underneath my brake pedal, on the floor, that put power to the dial. An he kind of looked at it like, what were you doing?Īnd my hand reached for the steering wheel, towards the princess dial, and he saw the light turn on as my hand reach for it. And I said, well, this is what I was doing. And so he was sitting over on the passenger side, and he was leaning up, had his arm on the window. And I call your grandfather out, and he came out and sat in the car. So I guess the reward for doing all of that was the day when it was finally finished, and I put it in the car. The Supreme Court has dealt with this issue a handful of times over the last century. And it's in this context that the issue of corporate spending on campaigns comes up. So corporations are legally like people in some respects, and unlike them in others. All those TV dramas and congressional hearings where people plead the fifth? Exxon can't do that. But when it comes to something the fifth amendment, which says, you can't be forced to incriminate yourself in a court of law, corporations are not covered. That's protected under the fourteenth amendment. The government can't take away their property without due process. When it comes to property rights, corporations are basically the same as you and I. A little background on the idea of corporations as people. ![]() How worried should he be about the Citizens United case? So Dad, if you don't mind, I took up a different question. I'm just going to stop here and say, by the time I got to this point in my conversation with Eugene Volokh, I already knew that the story my dad wanted me to do was in trouble. Others being, for example, people who want to hear what the corporation has to say.Īll right. We're worried about the train and the suit. Stories where it's not even clear whether it's humanly possible to make them into listenable stories on the radio. And we thought, you know, after tackling all the subjects we have over the years- productions of Peter Pan gone awry, and investigations into Guantanamo, and trying to make the history of mortgage-backed securities into entertaining radio- what would be the greatest challenge? What would be the greatest challenge that we could possibly attempt for our 400th show?Īnd the answer? Obviously, let's do all of those stories pitched to us by our parents. Something so difficult we've never dared do it before. We should do something we've never done before. Most of them never made it onto the air, because- i'll be frank- they were not so great.Īnd this week we thought, OK. And for years, as we made those 399 other episodes, all those years, family members have approached us at weddings, holidays, with all kinds of ideas for the show. There are eight of us who make the show, working together really closely, finding stories and shaping them. So of course, this was very, very worrisome.Īnd before I go any further in this story, I should say, this is the 400th episode one of our radio show. ![]()
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