Hello friends, welcome, so excited you are joining me today and I am so excited to be sharing my conversation with Andrew Yang.

You are tired of the left, right binary in the United States.

If you're tired of your only choices being

the Democrats and the Republicans, you're going to want to hear about the

Forward Party and about the plans Andrew Yang and others have for it. Let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the

Sharon says so podcast. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me Sharon. I too am pumped. I've been looking forward to this for a long time.

Oh, thank you. Thank you. So I would love to have you give people who have not been following you, who are not familiar with your movement to create a viable third party, the forward party in the United States, who have not been following all of your previous campaign adventures.

Give everybody just a very brief overview about your background and how you arrived at this point.

Oh, sure.

So I'm the son of immigrants.

My father is a physicist. My mother was a statistician, so I was a very nerdy Asian child.

Grew up not really thinking I was going to ever do anything public or political, became an entrepreneur, ran a company that was acquired in 2009.

And then I started a non-profit that helped create jobs in the Midwest and the South primarily and I became

convinced that our economy was transforming in fundamental ways that were

going to push more Americans to the side and then Donald Trump became our

president in 2016 which I took as frankly an outgrowth of the economic transformation.

And so I decided to run for president, primarily to inform Americans about these economic transformations,

I propose something very dramatic,

a universal basic income,

as a way to help us get through this time.

And I'm still trying to solve the same problems I ever was,

but I've become convinced that there is no

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