How COVID Accelerates the Arrival of our Future - Sam Harris joins Yang Speaks
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In July 2018, an unknown entrepreneur named Andrew Yang joined Sam Harris' podcast to talk about Universal Basic Income and his longshot run for president. Almost two years later, that entrepreneur returns the favor, now having inspired millions around the ideas needed to move our country forward. In round two of the podcast that started it all, Sam Harris joins Yang Speaks to discuss how far Andrew Yang's movement has grown, the 2020 election, and how Coronavirus has accelerated the arrival of our future.
Sam Harris - https://samharris.org/ | https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg
Andrew Yang - https://twitter.com/AndrewYang | https://movehumanityforward.com
Zach Graumann - https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann
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| 0:00.0 | your primary plan in your campaign, the UBI. |
| 0:04.0 | I mean, that is an idea whose time has come. |
| 0:06.0 | And it was almost like, you know, you were a profit |
| 0:09.0 | in light of what was soon to arrive in terms of |
| 0:12.0 | an economic cataclysm. |
| 0:14.0 | The podcast that started it all, Andrew Yang and Sam Harris. |
| 0:32.0 | So if you are listening to this right now, whether you know it or not, |
| 0:35.0 | it is because of Sam Harris. |
| 0:37.0 | In fact, if you have any opinion about Andrew Yang, |
| 0:40.0 | if you love him, you hate him, you think he can be |
| 0:42.0 | president of the United States, you think he's a genius, |
| 0:44.0 | you think he's an idiot, it does not matter. |
| 0:46.0 | That opinion is because of Sam Harris. |
| 0:49.0 | So Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, thought leader, |
| 0:52.0 | has a zone podcast called Making Sense. |
| 0:54.0 | And Andrew Yang joined this podcast in July of 2018, |
| 0:58.0 | right as he started his presidential run. |
| 1:00.0 | Because of that podcast, we started building our grassroots fundraising operation. |
| 1:05.0 | We built the infrastructure for the Yang gang. |
| 1:09.0 | We started growing getting more popular and eventually because of Sam, |
| 1:12.0 | we got on Joe Rogan's podcast and took off on a national scale |
| 1:16.0 | and launched the entire presidential campaign in this massive national movement. |
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