How to Rebuild the Nation’s Trust
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
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🗓️ 5 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Former Congressman Joe Sestak joins Andrew to talk about life as a Navy admiral, the importance of cybersecurity, and insights into restoring trust with voters.
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| 0:00.0 | I think first and foremost, we should keep in mind what James Madison said. |
| 0:04.4 | We know what he talked about, the dangers of factionalism. |
| 0:07.8 | But at the end of his writings, he said, |
| 0:10.4 | the circulation of confidence, of trust is more important than the circulation of money. |
| 0:17.9 | And his explanation was, if we ever lose trust in public institutions or with each other, |
| 0:24.9 | then we're lost. |
| 0:34.9 | It is my privilege and honor to welcome to forward. |
| 0:55.6 | Former Navy admiral and two-term member of Congress from the great state of Pennsylvania, |
| 1:01.3 | also my fellow presidential candidate in the 2020 cycle, Joe Sestak. Welcome, Joe. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, Andrew, it's very fine to be back with you. |
| 1:11.1 | Indeed, my friend. We have some stories to tell from the trail for sure, but your story is epic and |
| 1:17.3 | fascinating. I first heard of you when you were in the throes of various congressional and senate |
| 1:24.8 | races. I didn't know the full backstory, which we'll get into. But you spent 31 years |
| 1:30.4 | in the US Navy, including as a three-star admiral. So my first question is the question that everyone has |
| 1:37.1 | with has for you, I'm sure. What did you think of top gun one and two? |
| 1:43.8 | Well, a lesson to take away from this one, Andrew, is Tom Cruise flew an F-14 in the first one. |
| 1:50.4 | And the second one is aboard a joint strike fighter. But you know, unlike what we do in America, |
| 1:56.6 | when we close down a coal mine, and we go to producing solar power panels, the middle class, |
| 2:04.5 | the enlisted of that aircraft carrier, we didn't throw them out and say, you don't know how to work |
| 2:09.9 | on this, we trained them for the next step. And so when I watched it, what was really missing in |
| 2:15.2 | that movie, and all I could think about was the 5,000 sales on an aircraft carrier, their average |
| 2:20.9 | age, Andrew, 19 and a half. Oh my gosh. And so that's what I think about. I know Tom Cruise gets |
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