My flagship proposals, we give every American $1,000 a month free and clear.

If you have a little bit more freedom from scarcity, then you can start making moves towards the sort of work that you want for yourself, that you value, that you would find fulfilling and exciting.

Hello and welcome to the Sunday special.

We're joined this week by Andrew Yang, author of the book The War on Normal People.

I can't wait to get to my conversation with Andrew.

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Well, first of all, I just have to thank you again for coming on the show because we've invited a lot of folks on the left, particularly members of the Democratic Party who are running for president. You're the only person who's accepted thus far, and so we appreciate the conversation. It really does mean a lot to me that you would come on, and I'm sure that you will get some slings and arrows for it.

Well, I hope I can set a you would come on. And I'm sure that you will get some slings and arrows for it.

Well, I hope I can set a trend. Like, I hope I'm the first but not the last. So let's start with this. What prompted you to run for president? Where are you coming from? What's your backstory for folks who don't know you? So I certainly was not one of these kids who grew up thinking they were going to run for president.

I was born in upstate New York. My parents are immigrants from don't know you. So I certainly was not one of these kids who grew up thinking they were going to run for

president.

I was born in upstate New York.

My parents are immigrants from Taiwan.

They met in graduate school at UC Berkeley.

So my father was an engineer for GE and IBM.

He generated 69 U.S. patents over his career.

And being an academic is sort of the family business.

My dad's a professor now. My brother's a professor. My grandfather was a professor. So I, like you, went to law school. I went to, you know, I started economics and political science in college. Didn't know what to do so I went to law school. And then practiced law for five unhappy months. And then left to start an ill-fated.com in the first bubble.

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