with us again. Is Andrew Yang the, could I call you a futurist? Do we accept this title?

You know I used to joke Ethan that people call me a futurist but I am actually a

presentist because it's all going on right now and I was contrasting myself with

other political figures who seem stuck in the past. Like everyone's arguing for

some version of the past. So, so you know, but if people call me a futurist, I

mean it sounds cool. It makes me sound with it and forward thinking so I mean

I'll take it. That is a good point though. I mean the idea is that you are

speaking about only you know a year or two ago before COVID is already here now

UBI was your kind of main platform and once COVID hit this whole UBI

discussion came forefront like all of a sudden this isn't such a bad idea.

Yeah, majority of Americans now support universal-based income that just came

out this week and something like 76% of American people were cash relief

during the pandemic which is as you can tell a very close cousin to universal

basic income and we're getting a ton of economic data right now that showing

that the money we're putting into people's hands has been enormously positive

for the economy, for those individuals and families, for people's ability to

continue to spend money in their local communities. So it's been like a large

scale kind of involuntary UBI trial but I'm happy to say that it seems like

now it's mainstream wisdom and the majority of the American people support it.

I just wish it didn't have to be under these circumstances but thank you all

because you were ahead of the curve pre-pandemic you were like hey it's actually a

good idea and then now we all look like geniuses because everyone's like we

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