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Krystal Kyle & Friends

Episode 141: Andrew Yang

Krystal Kyle & Friends

Krystal

News, Politics

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

We talk to political commentator and author Andrew Yang about his latest book, The Last Election — and how political-thriller fiction might offer prescient insight into the precarity of American democracy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're going to be talking to Andrew Yang. Actually, that's a lie. We're not talking to him today.

0:14.2

We already talked to him the other day.

0:15.6

Yes. And it was a lovely conversation.

0:17.4

Yes. And what we're just doing the intro today, but there's a lot of stuff to talk about.

0:22.7

You know, I would say I'm looking forward to the conversation with Yang, but we already

0:25.6

had it.

0:26.6

Looking forward to sharing it with you all, he just wrote a book actually called the last

0:31.0

election, which is a novel that he co-wrote. And so we get into like what inspired it.

0:36.2

And if you really think so on the brink of catastrophic last election end of democracy,

0:40.9

civil war kind of thing, we kind of go back and forth on that.

0:43.0

So yeah, I think it'll be interesting for people.

0:44.4

But we also get into stuff not related at all to the book, which yeah, for a party and

0:48.2

what he's up to.

0:50.0

All right. So there's a bunch of stuff to talk about today, though, either way.

0:54.7

We were considering talking about Bill Mar being a scab, but we decided that the commentary

0:58.6

is too obvious. Screw you, Bill Mar. You're a scab. You're talking about it all.

1:02.8

We talked about bringing points if you want to see my full thoughts, but they are exactly

1:06.4

what you think and said scab time with smug Mar because that's what he should rename

1:09.9

his show to. But so we got this UAW strike. We're on the verge of it and tell me what's

1:14.1

going on with that.

1:15.1

Actually, by the time this is released, they may already be in a strike mode because

1:20.4

the deadline is midnight on or 1159, technically on Thursday night and looking very much like

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