Andrew Yang Will Shit-Talk Florida to Get Rich New Yorkers Back Home

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

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Andrew Yang will do whatever it takes to get the New York City economy going again if he’s elected mayor. And by anything, we mean he will shit-talk Florida to get as many rich New Yorkers as he can to come home from the Sunshine State, he tells Molly Jong-Fast in this episode of The New Abnormal. Plus, Toure, host of the podcasts Democracy-ish and Toure Show, tells Molly why the current police system is more about making money than it is about protecting the people.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and welcome to the Daily Beast's Venue Abnormal. I'm
0:05.7	a left-wing pendant and an editor at large at the Daily Beast. We're here to
0:10.5	have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,
0:15.6	politics, and science that help make what's happening in the country and the
0:20.2	world clearer. Our world has been turned upside down. On the new abnormal we'll
0:26.0	talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out how we get
0:30.4	ourselves out of it. And I'm producer Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure
0:34.1	everything doesn't go too far off the rails while we have fun discussions about
0:38.5	our world gone mad. And why take that duty seriously? Ourself's not so much. On
0:44.4	today's episode we have an interview with former presidential candidate and
0:47.7	New York City mayoral candidate and frontrunner Andrew Yang. But first we're
0:52.7	gonna talk to friend of the show Torrey who hosts the podcast Democracy Ish and
0:57.1	Torrey show. We're gonna talk all about what's happening in the Derek
0:59.7	Chauvin trial as well as what to do about police reform. Welcome Torrey to the
1:04.8	new abnormal. Thank you for having me Molly. You and I met once in the 90s. Who
1:11.3	can recall such things? I cannot but I know we did meet. What is going on? What's
1:18.0	going on? Yes, I am a very kind of concise interview style. I've been watching
1:24.3	the trial, the Chauvin trial all day. It's been a particularly harrowing day of
1:32.2	watching because we're in the closing arguments so like you know we're
1:38.2	summing everything up. It's just been like I forced myself to watch the
1:41.7	defense because I didn't want to just watch the prosecution closing and just
1:45.5	be like yep, yep, yep, that's right. I was wondering if the defense attorney
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