Hey, everyone. Virgil, Texas here. And joining me today is entrepreneur and presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

Andrew, thank you so much for coming. Thanks for being here. It's a pleasure. Is it? No, I mean,

it's a very nice studio. We're surrounded by Persian-looking furnishings. Yeah, that's imported. This

is some pretty easy campaigning duty in this game of presidential run. Yeah, we got that. That was

a violation of the embargo to acquire that Persian furniture here at the Chapo Park Slow Mansion.

You have your campaign has picked up in the past few months and you've been running for well over

a year now on the basis of your big UBI proposal. And that's something that you write about in your book,

the war on normal people. Yes. But I want to go back and start the conversation with your first book,

smart people should build things. And what's interesting to me about this book is you wrote this

before you were running for president while you were in entrepreneur and you were working for a firm

called a nonprofit called Venture for America. Yeah, I found adventure for America in 2011.

And what's interesting about the book is you know, you you make it personal and you talk a little

about your you know, backstory. But whereas someone like Pete Buttigieg wrote a book and spends the

entire time talking about, you know, I went to college and you know, I did, I was exposed to these

wonderful new ideas. And then I worked for McKinsey and you know, it was great and I learned how to

manage. You spend about three pages covering that part of your life and you say, yeah, I didn't know

what to do. My parents said to go to college and be successful. So I went to college and was fine.

And then I got a job on at a corporate law firm making six figures right out the gate. And I

and it sucked. It did suck. And my life was probably about three pages worth of interest. Yeah, so

as you know, I mean, when I wrote that book, political run was nowhere in my thinking. And I'm

even as you know, if I've been you know, read the book that's most associated with my campaign,

I still devote the vast majority of it to the problems that we're facing, which I think are

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