Hello listeners. This week we have my conversation with Friend of the Pod, Ricky Schlaught, to discuss my new book, Hey Yang, where's my thousand bucks, including some crazy Q&A and live interaction. This was recorded live at P&T, knitware, and lower Manhattan. I'll be visiting more cities on the book tour,

so check out Andrew Yang.com slash events for more info.

We'd love to see you out there.

Come say hello.

Please help me in welcoming Ricky Schlaught and Andrew Yang.

Thank you, New York City.

Thank you. It's great to see you all.

And thanks for doing this, Ricky.

Yeah, thank you for having me.

So I really enjoyed the book, and I love the framing of answering questions

that people ask you on the street, including where is my thousand bucks?

But what are some of those questions and why address them now in book form?

The most common question I get is, are you Andrew Yang or do I know you?

The alternate title of the book was, hey, am I racist or are you Andrew Yang?

Which I have gotten. And I considered saying, no, no, I'm not, then walking off. I wouldn't do that to be sort of obnoxious. The person was perfectly pleasant, too. So I wanted to share stories of my experiences that there was really no space to do in, for example,

a weekly newsletter that I write.

I don't know how many of you subscribe to my substack.

If you don't, should check it out, considering you're here.

It might not be so blatant in another context, but I mean, if you took time to come to this book

event, then my newsletter might be of interest. But it's difficult for me to share some of those

experiences in that context because most of the time I'm communicating

something serious about current events or politics or business or jobs. And I had this build-up

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