The Power Broker #06: Mike Schur

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

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4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Featuring television producer, writer, director, and actor Mike Schur, and covering the first half of Part 5, chapters 25-26.

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0:00.0	This is the 99% invisible breakdown of the power broker. I'm Roman Mars.
0:06.0	And I, of course, am Elliot Kalin.
0:08.0	Today we're covering the beginning section of Part 5, The Love of Power,
0:12.0	chapters 25 and 26. That's pages 49. of Power,
0:12.8	chapters 25 and 26.
0:14.3	That's pages 499 to 606 in my book.
0:17.2	And later in this episode, our special book club guest
0:19.6	is Mike Shore.
0:20.6	He is the creator behind beloved sitcoms like Parks and Recreation, The Good Place,
0:24.8	in Brooklyn 99, he was a producer and writer on the office, and he's also written a book on
0:29.3	moral philosophy called How to Be Perfect. Mike is a huge fan of the Power Broker, maybe the biggest
0:34.6	fan of the power broker I've ever met, and he has cited this book as inspiration
0:38.8	behind Parks and Rec. So on this episode we're covering pages 499 to 606 in my book that's the beginning of
0:47.2	part 5 the love of power chapters 25 and 26 when we last left the power broker,
0:55.0	Robert Moses had run for governor.
0:57.0	He had been such an unlikeable, unpleasant candidate
1:00.0	that he lost more than any major party candidate had ever lost
1:03.4	before and his reputation is tarnished he's completely on his ass but
1:08.0	President Roosevelt a unlikely savior in an attempt to remove him for good has an order issued stating that
1:15.2	New York City will get no more WPA money until it fires anyone holding both
1:20.5	a city and a state office.
1:22.6	This was an order written just to expel Moses.
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