8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate The Media Wants You To Ignore
The Portal
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4.7 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Portal, Eric checks in with his friend Andrew Yang to discuss the meteoric rise of his candidacy; one that represents an insurgency against a complacent political process that the media establishment doggedly tries to maintain. Andrew updates Eric on the state of his campaign and the status of the ideas the two had discussed as its foundation when it began. Eric presents Andrew with his new economic paradigm; moving from an 'is a [worker]' economy to a 'has a [worker]' economy. The two also discuss neurodiverse families as a neglected voting block, the still-strong but squelched-by-the-scientific-establishment STEM community in the US, and the need to talk fearlessly - and as a xenophile - about immigration as a wealth transfer gimmick.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you found the portal. I'm your host Eric Weinstein, and we're here this evening |
| 0:13.0 | a little bit later than usual with my friend and presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Andrew |
| 0:17.4 | welcome. Thank you for keeping the portal open late for me. Oh my God. Thanks for bringing |
| 0:21.8 | the energy. You've just come fresh off this rally. MacArthur Park. You're indefatigable. |
| 0:25.6 | The energizer bunny. Yes, we just had a 6,000 person rally, 7,000, 8,000. I lost track. I was |
| 0:33.8 | counting manually. No, it wasn't. And I should say that your hat is make America think harder. |
| 0:39.6 | Yep. But it's it's mapped while we're trying. We're trying. So we don't want to keep you up late |
| 0:46.0 | because we want you super charged for tomorrow. So let's just dig right into it. |
| 0:51.2 | Andrew, I'm remembering that we were having this dinner at the Zazi in San Francisco and you |
| 0:57.7 | impressing the hell out of my wife and myself. And I said, that guy's going in place. She says, |
| 1:02.2 | how can he? He said, these are different times. Oh, thank you. So am I right that this is |
| 1:08.4 | this is happening? Oh, it's happening. Big time. I mean, our campaign is growing my leaps and |
| 1:16.0 | bounds by all of the measurements you would ordinarily measure a presidential campaign, |
| 1:20.3 | crowd size, fun raising, criticism. Yeah, I guess the Yang gang is absolutely fanatical. Trust me, |
| 1:27.7 | I encounter them all the time on social media. Well, I love the Yang gang. Thank you, Yang gang. |
| 1:32.8 | Yeah, the excitement is palpable. And I love it. I mean, everywhere I go now, people will just say, |
| 1:41.6 | like, I support you and give me a fist bump. And certainly when we campaign, I mean, now we draw |
| 1:49.4 | crowds of other hundreds or thousands, depending upon where we are. It's amazing. Now, |
| 1:54.5 | let's just dig into it. We're in this totally bizarre situation. I don't think the institutions |
| 1:59.6 | have faced up to just how dire our situation is when I go outside for the most part, the physical |
| 2:06.4 | world is still humming along. But everywhere else, you can see the signs that somehow the |
| 2:11.6 | superstructure that undergirds, the simple physical reality has really been framed. Am I wrong |
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