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Alive with Steve Burns

Is The American Dream Dead? with Rep. Ro Khanna

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0588 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Ro swings by to chat with Steve about tech, economics, and how we can ensure innovation serves everyone.   Ro Khanna is the U.S. Representative from California’s 17th congressional district, also known as Silicon Valley. Ro has held that seat since his upset victory in 2016. He is a member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. His 2022 book is titled: Progressive Capitalism: How To Make Tech Work for All of Us.   Our listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/stevealive.   Head to ComicConTheCruise.com/ALIVE to learn more and book your cabin — and don’t forget to use code ALIVE for $250 off per cabin on new reservations!   Get 15% off OneSkin with the code ALIVE at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod You can follow Steve Burns @steveburnsalive on Instagram. Watch full episodes of Alive on YouTube. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.    If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to subscribe to Lemonada Premium. You’ll get ad-free episodes and bonus content from Steve. Just hit the 'subscribe' button on Apple Podcasts, or, for all other podcast apps head to lemonadapremium.com to subscribe.    Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Lemonada

0:02.0

Alive

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Alive

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with Steve Byr

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Alive with Steve Burns

0:16.0

Hey there you are

0:19.0

It's great to see you.

0:21.6

Come on in.

0:23.6

Welcome to Alive.

0:25.6

Okay, so I grew up with this idea.

0:31.6

It was kind of a cliche, but also kind of, I don't know, sacred.

0:39.9

It was called the American Dream.

0:42.5

You've heard of it, right?

0:46.9

What is the American dream to you? Right, exactly. Yeah. You work really hard and you go to college and then you get a degree.

1:03.0

And then you get a job. And then you get a house. And then you get a pension. And then you get a Labradoodle, and then you have some relative

1:13.1

sense of enduring peace. Except it hasn't really worked out like that, has it? I'm making tea. You want

1:23.4

tea? Because I feel like a lot of people did exactly that.

1:30.3

They went to college.

1:32.3

They worked hard, they got a degree.

1:36.3

They took on unimaginable, ungodly, legally sanctioned debt

1:43.3

that they

1:44.2

then carry around for the rest

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