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The Joe Rogan Experience

#801 - Gary Johnson

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.5245.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2016

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Gary Johnson is the Honorary Chairman of the Our America Initiative, two-term Governor of New Mexico, and 2016 Libertarian candidate for President. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Johnson.

0:01.0

What's happening, buddy?

0:02.0

Joe Rogin.

0:03.0

Thanks for coming to board.

0:04.0

I appreciate it, man.

0:05.0

Other way around. You're on the short list of people that folks consider a rational person that's running for president. We're in a very strange time, would you agree?

0:15.0

I think we're in the strangest time ever. Maybe in the history of politics, certainly in my lifetime.

0:22.0

Yeah, it doesn't seem to make a lot of, it almost seems like this is the last gasp of the idea of running for president.

0:29.0

You know, when you just do the mathematics of the fact that Hillary and Donald Trump are arguably

0:37.3

the two most polarizing figures in American politics today, that Trump has to go out and get 30% of the far right to get the nomination.

0:45.1

Hillary has to go out and get 30% of the far left. When 50% of Americans right now who

0:51.3

are registering to vote are independent.

0:54.2

At the end of the day, don't the two major parties represent about 30% of the electorate?

1:00.7

And so where is the

1:09.4

where is the representation for the majority of interest in America? I think it's the Libertarian party. I think it's Libertarian people just just don't know it. And speaking with a broad brush

1:15.0

stroke, Libertarian. Fiscally conservative, socially liberal.

1:18.9

Yeah, that seems to be where most people hang their hat but it's not something that most

1:24.9

people identify with when they talk about their actual political persuasion.

1:28.9

They usually say you know they're on the left or they're on the right.

1:32.0

When someone says they're a libertarian left or they're on the right when you someone says they're a

1:33.7

libertarian that's that dude at the office that has guns you know what I mean yeah I'm

1:38.2

sorry that what the dude at the office the crazy dude at the office you know well so we hit this

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