Episode Transcript: #1214 - Lawrence Lessig
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3, 2, 1, and we're live.
How are you, sir?
Hey, I'm great.
Thanks for being here, man.
I really appreciate it.
It is the coolest thing I've done.
Really?
Ever?
Well, you know, I can't remember that far back, but it's pretty cool.
I watched a TED Talk on, what was the word that you used, Lesterland?
Lesterland.
Yeah.
And it felt hopeless.
Like, for people who don't know what I'm talking about, could you just give like a brief synopsis
of the way you were describing how completely rigged our election system is and what it
actually takes to be elected and how much of the time they spend is involved in raising
money and why?
Yeah.
We've got a system where we have a money primary and then we have a regular election.
And in the money primary, to compete, you've got to raise tons of money to be able to fund