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The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On The Gist, Amazon or marijuana? In the interview, Andrew Yang has declared his candidacy for the 2020 presidential election, and his platform is universal basic income. But how does that work? Is there room for that and other progressive platforms like free college tuition or universal health care? Yang’s new book is The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future. In the Spiel, thought experiments and the extinction of the human race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.9	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.9	Let's just say it may.
0:10.2	Thursday, December 20, 2018, from slate,
0:14.3	it's the gist of Mike Pescola.
0:16.5	What is better for society, Amazon, or marijuana?
0:22.2	Let me be more specific and also explain why I'm asking you this.
0:25.6	New York City, New York State, but the city also,
0:28.6	is inviting in Amazon.
0:30.6	You've probably heard.
0:31.7	People are quite upset about that.
0:33.4	They're also inviting in marijuana.
0:35.7	The governor and mayor announced the legal trade of marijuana
0:39.6	will begin, they hope, they plan.
0:42.3	And I have sense, at least in the circles that I travel in.
0:45.7	The announcement about Amazon was treated much more
0:49.2	diorally than the announcement about marijuana.
0:53.1	Maybe this is just people I know.
0:55.7	Maybe I operate in circles that are stoned
0:59.1	and they make midnight runs to White Castle,
1:01.5	as opposed to next day prime deliveries of hamburger meat.
1:05.6	Hey, you know, it's all inflected by the people that you deal with.
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