SYSK Selects: How Lobbying Works

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Lobbying is an entrenched part of American politics and one that many people think is breaking government. But petitioning the government is protected in the Constitution. How can this system be fixed? join Josh and Chuck as they explore the topic in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Hi folks, Chuck here with your Saturdays select because it's election season.
0:35.5	I thought we'd dig back into the archives from October 6, 2015 and find out how lobbying
0:40.4	works.
0:41.4	You may think lobbying is awful and it certainly can be but it also serves a purpose.
0:46.1	Uh, you know, I'll let you make your own mind up about it.
0:49.9	But here we go with how lobbying works right now.
0:55.1	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:59.9	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:07.1	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Crickets.
1:12.1	So weird.
1:13.1	Yeah, we're doing this ghost style.
1:16.0	Yeah.
1:17.0	It happened was and I didn't you'd explain to me but I don't know, maybe my mind was
1:22.0	elsewhere and I didn't fully understand what happened is guess producer Noel got the
1:27.4	record.
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