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🗓️ 13 December 2018
⏱️ 138 minutes
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0:00.0 | Three, two, one. And we're live. How are you, sir? Hey, I'm great. |
0:09.8 | Thanks for being here, man. I really appreciate it. It is the coolest thing I've done. |
0:12.9 | Really? |
0:13.3 | Ever? |
0:14.3 | Well, you know, I can't remember that far back, |
0:16.2 | but it's pretty cool. |
0:17.8 | I watched your TED Talk on, what was the word that you used? |
0:22.1 | Lester Land? Lester Land? |
0:23.0 | Lester. |
0:24.0 | Yeah. |
0:25.0 | And it felt hopeless. |
0:27.0 | Like for people who don't know what I'm talking about, |
0:30.0 | because you just give like a brief synopsis of the way you were describing how completely |
0:37.0 | 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. |
0:50.0 | Yeah, so we've got a system where we have a money primary and then we have a regular election. |
0:57.0 | And in the money primary to compete, you gotta raise tons of money to be able to fund your campaign. |
1:04.0 | And when you raise that money, you raise it from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1%. |
1:09.0 | So in the Ted talk about Lester Noy, I said, you know, |
1:12.0 | imagine a place called Lesterland |
1:15.5 | where basically it's the Lester's who rule. |
1:20.9 | And by the Lester's, I mean the same proportion of people named |
1:24.1 | Lester as in the United States right now so there's about 150,000 Americans |
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