Andrew Yang on Micromobility
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🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Andrew Yang, former presidential and New York mayoral candidate, really likes to ride his electric scooter. He's been a big proponent of micromobility in general, among other grand ambitions like establishing a nationwide universal basic income. He's also trying to launch a new American political party—a near-impossible task in such an ideologically divided country.
This week on Gadget Lab, Lauren talks with Andrew Yang at the Micromobility America conference in Richmond, California about his plans for democracy and how cities might become more micromobile-friendly.
Show Notes:
Andrew Yang’s new book is called Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy.
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| 0:00.0 | Lauren. |
| 0:01.3 | Mike. |
| 0:02.2 | Lauren, are you a micromobility person? |
| 0:05.4 | I thought you were going to ask me if I was a member of the Yang Gang. |
| 0:08.8 | Are you a member of the Yang Gang? |
| 0:11.3 | No to your latter question and sort of to your first question. |
| 0:18.5 | I have aspirations of being more of a micromobility person. Are you? |
| 0:22.4 | I am all in on micromobility and no comment on whether or not I Yang 10. But we're going to |
| 0:31.7 | talk about both of those things on this week's show. |
| 0:40.3 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:41.4 | Welcome to Gadget Lab. |
| 0:42.4 | I am Michael Collory, a senior editor at Wired. |
| 0:44.9 | And I'm Lauren Good. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm a senior writer at Wired. |
| 0:47.4 | We have a special show for you this week. |
| 0:49.6 | A couple of weeks ago, former presidential and New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang made an appearance |
| 0:56.0 | at the Micromobility America event in Richmond, California. Now, Lauren, you're the one |
| 1:02.0 | who interviewed him on stage. It was a pretty wide-ranging conversation, wasn't it? We covered a lot of |
| 1:07.9 | rounds, and we talked about his new political party. At the time that we taped |
| 1:14.3 | this conversation, it was in late September. And his new book wasn't coming out until October 5th. |
| 1:20.2 | And that was sort of the moment at which he was like announcing this new political party. |
| 1:24.6 | But I'd known about it in advance and had been reported in advance. |
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