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Lawrence Lessig

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3, 2, 1, and we're live.

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How are you, sir?

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Hey, I'm great.

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Thanks for being here, man.

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I really appreciate it.

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It is the coolest thing I've done.

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Really?

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Ever?

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Well, you know, I can't remember that far back, but it's pretty cool.

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I watched a TED Talk on, what was the word that you used, Lesterland?

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Lesterland.

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Yeah.

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And it felt hopeless.

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Like, for people who don't know what I'm talking about, could you just give like a brief synopsis

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of the way you were describing how completely rigged our election system is and what it

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actually takes to be elected and how much of the time they spend is involved in raising

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money and why?

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Yeah.

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We've got a system where we have a money primary and then we have a regular election.

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And in the money primary, to compete, you've got to raise tons of money to be able to fund

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