For most of this episode, the guys take a deep look at Thomas's choice of chocolate boba and the other issues in his diet...

Just kidding *insert Vine reference*, this episode focuses on the deep and dark history of the electoral college, and the issues that it has, and how it negatively impacted our political environment. They also focus on how this has devalued some aspects of our representative system, and in some ways increased focus on battleground states. There is also a look at the role that slavery had in advancing an electoral college system, and the repercussions that we see of that today. Finally, they take look at some of the groups advocating for electoral college reform, and some of the specific plans to get rid of the electoral college system.

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