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2020: Andrew Yang on the universal basic income and why he hates the penny

Pod Save America

Crooked Media

News, Politics

4.683.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Tommy talks to Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang about why he feels a universal basic income is necessary as more jobs are automated, how he'd get his agenda through Congress, and why he feels America needs to leave the penny behind.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Paz de la V America. This is Tommy Vitor. Thanks for tuning in to the latest

0:08.6

of our interview series with the 2020 presidential candidates. Today's discussion is with entrepreneur

0:16.3

philanthropist Andrew Yang. He stopped by the Crooked Media Studio on Wednesday. We spent

0:21.5

about an hour talking about his proposal for a universal basic income. We talked about

0:26.6

a whole bunch of political questions that were going on and because it is my obsession,

0:31.9

we did some foreign policy at the end. He's a very thoughtful, good guy. He wore a hat

0:37.2

that said math on it for the duration. So check out the video. He actually gave me a signed

0:41.9

version of the math hat, which I believe love it is wearing around the office. Thanks

0:47.9

for tuning in. Give this one a listen. If you haven't subscribed to Paz de la V America

0:52.2

world, I don't know what's wrong with you. I need you to pause this thing, reopen the

0:57.2

app, subscribe to Paz de la V America, go back to Paz de la V America, listen to Andrew

1:03.6

Yang. That's all he needs. If you're a member of the Yang gang and you are angry at anything

1:09.6

in this interview, please tweet at John Love It. Here's a conversation.

1:18.8

I would like to welcome to Crooked Media HQ, Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur running for

1:24.7

president, the Democratic nomination in 2020. It's great to have you here. It's great to

1:28.6

be here. Tommy, thanks so much for having me. Straight from Iowa, you've been here a couple

1:32.2

days. I've been in LA for about a day. Okay, cool. It's good to have you. Let's jump right

1:39.5

into it. So your can't see has really been like laser focus on a big central idea, which

1:46.0

is the need for universal basic income. I want to get to that in detail. I was hoping

1:50.4

we could start with how you arrived at the need for UBI through your work adventure for

1:55.0

America. Can you talk to us about what that was and what you did? Yeah, very much so.

2:00.3

I started my career as an unhappy corporate attorney and then worked in startups. I started

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