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🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Vote for Pedro.
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.
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0:00.0 | Vote for Pedro. |
0:01.0 | Pedro. |
0:02.0 | Both for Pedro. |
0:03.0 | We've got some problems and just about everyone agrees about what they are. |
0:09.5 | There's too much money |
0:14.0 | buys influence. |
0:15.0 | There's way too much divisiveness. |
0:18.0 | One of the best ways to get elected |
0:21.0 | is to demonize your opponent and depress their turnout. Primaries reward |
0:27.2 | people who are on the extreme edges because they're the ones who can get a |
0:31.9 | few voters to show up. |
0:34.0 | Many people are alienated from the electoral process |
0:38.0 | because they're disgusted by how the whole thing turns out. |
0:41.0 | And finally, we're in the middle of a pandemic and that's going to |
0:45.1 | change the way people even show up to vote if they've decided that they want to. |
0:50.0 | What if there was one thing we could do that would fix all of these problems? |
0:57.4 | One thing that just about everybody can get behind. |
1:01.1 | Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
1:07.0 | We'll be back in a second to talk about elections and how they work, but first here's a message from our sponsor. |
1:17.0 | If you want to learn to write a bicycle, don't read a book. |
1:24.8 | Hey, it's Seth, and I'm here to talk about the akimbo workshops. |
1:29.3 | These are interactive real-time online workshops that work and we're devoting 20 to |
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