Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen riff on baseball’s “World Series,” using it as a springboard into American exceptionalism. They trace how marketing, PR, and early propaganda shaped national myths, from deist founders to church-state tensions and voucher-backed microschools. Rosner emphasizes geography, youth, and insulation from world wars; Jacobsen presses on where ideals meet reality. They discuss slavery’s foundational labor, Native dispossession, and contested narratives around the atomic bombings. The pair close by noting a record-length series and the irony of global branding with domestic scope, inviting readers to separate civic pride from comforting stories and examine history with rigor.