Longshot: The Untold Story of the Yang Presidential Campaign, Part 1
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K 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
Transcript
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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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