The Best of 2022: The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution w/ William Forbath & Joseph Fishkin, John Hodgman & David Rees
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
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🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 105 minutes
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It's Day 1 of the Best of 2022! Here's Sam speaking with William Forbath, Associate Dean for Research at the University of Texas at Austin Law School, and Joseph Fishkin, Professor at the UCLA School of Law, to discuss their recent book The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of Democracy. Then, Sam and Emma chat with John Hodgman and David Rees to discuss their new project "Dicktown" on FXX!
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| 0:00.0 | It is Monday, December 26th, 2022. |
| 0:10.8 | My name is Sam Seater. |
| 0:11.8 | This is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:15.2 | We are broadcasting live to tape. |
| 0:19.3 | Steps from the industrial ravaged Gawannas Canal in the heartland of America, down |
| 0:23.7 | town, Berkeley, USA. |
| 0:26.6 | Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is the first of our very, very famous Best Ops, the year |
| 0:34.3 | 2022. |
| 0:35.6 | The most famous. |
| 0:36.7 | The most famous. |
| 0:37.7 | Let's bring Emma in. |
| 0:39.0 | This is we talk about the best of 2022, the year beginning to wind down. |
| 0:47.1 | I hope everybody had a, what's that thing? |
| 0:51.4 | The pagan Christmas holiday. |
| 0:53.6 | Christmas, yeah. |
| 0:54.6 | Maybe everybody had a Merry Christmas. |
| 0:57.3 | Of course, I think Hanukkah is still going on. |
| 1:00.6 | It's in the future, but I believe it is still happening. |
| 1:03.8 | I hope you had a Merry Christmas and that it was a white Christmas for you if you wanted |
| 1:08.1 | or there wasn't that much fighting. |
| 1:10.5 | Or a white Christmas, so you're listening to this hungover. |
| 1:13.8 | Right? |
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