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Longshot: The Untold Story of the Yang Presidential Campaign, Part 1

Forward

Humanity Forward Productions

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Yang joins his campaign manager, Zach Graumann, for a 2-part conversation on how they built the groundbreaking campaign that launched Universal Basic Income onto the national stage. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WBWqUoQsE9I Longshot: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691584/longshot-by-zach-graumann/ Follow Zach Graumann: https://twitter.com/zach_graumann | https://instagram.com/zachgraumann Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://forwardparty.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm not funny in particular, but the story is funny.

0:03.6

Yeah, moments in this campaign.

0:04.8

I'm the fun story.

0:06.0

When you mocked me, I never make fun of you and myself.

0:11.4

Have you think about this?

0:12.4

You were completely anonymous, had no business getting into the greatest,

0:17.2

the biggest stage of politics, right?

0:19.7

And myself and the early team had combined years of political experience,

0:23.9

totaling zero.

0:24.9

Like we had no business running a presidential campaign.

0:27.6

Yet, we outlasted dozens of sitting centers, governors, representatives.

0:35.2

Okay, so we built the Yang Gang with podcasts, memes, and math.

0:38.9

The Yang Gang, you're gonna love this, because this is the book that you were hoping I would write,

0:42.0

but it did not, and so Zach wrote it.

0:43.6

But the first time ever, the forward podcast, two part conversation with the most important

1:01.2

author of our time, Zach Grommett.

1:04.5

Hey, man, that's an intro.

1:06.2

Oh, so it's fun because people who have gone into the pattern know we do a lot of books here,

1:12.8

a lot of authors on Monday, and then you and I come together on Thursdays often to talk about what's

1:16.8

going on.

1:17.5

So this is like a combination, a team up where this is going to be both us discussing what's going on,

1:24.4

and most importantly, discussing long shot, how political nobody's took Andrew Yang,

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