The Lever.

Welcome everybody to our special bonus live event, the master planner's election, as we're calling it.

It's going to be a conversation with myself, Senator Shelton White House, about this election.

And I should add, after Senator Whitehouse and I talk about the master plan and how it's affecting the election, we're going to also open it up to questions about the master plan series at the end of the series. Hopefully everyone's listened to the series, or at least parts of it.

So we're going to take questions from you to the master plan reporters who reported out the series.

It feels like the perfect time to have everyone with us right now, just as we've wrapped up the first season of Master Plan.

This season, if you've listened to the season, you can tell we put a ton of work into it. We're really proud of it. And it came out

at exactly the right time, right in the middle of an election dominated by billionaires, dominated by

master planners. Anyone who hasn't yet listened, the full season is now available to stream, to listen

to download on your podcast app.

You can find it at YouTube and your podcast app.

Just search master plan in your podcast app.

So here is Senator Whitehouse. Thank you so much for for being here.

Senator White House. We really appreciate it. I have to say in introducing you, having now reported

this series, spent almost two years on this series, I feel like I feel like I know you personally

because we've followed your work so closely in this.

And I should mention Senator White House has a terrific book about a lot of these topics called The Scheme, which I encourage everybody to read.

So I'll just throw it to you, the first question that we have for you.

The 2024 election is shaping up to be

the most expensive in history you've run in a lot of a lot of elections you've watched american

politics for a long time how different is what we're experiencing now than what we've

experienced before is it more of the same or has something changed?

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