Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

Okay. Okay. These are the questions. Andrew Yang in a group of former Republican and Democratic

officials announced their new centrist political party. I think David Jolley is involved

with that. I saw their brief announcement of this and they said, other third parties

haven't worked. Here's why are as well. Do you think they can become a viable third party?

Who's that too? That's too all of you us. Are you on take it? Well, the one thing that

I... Why is that so tough? No one needs it. Why is that so hot, Pentale? Jim Mel Bowie in

the New York Times has a very skeptical piece about this and it's all well taken but

I think that we also forget that a lot of these things are driven by personality and charisma

and there are only so many lessons you can take from 1850 because we have something called

social media and so I think all bets are off at this point. I think that the idea is

valuable. It's clearly urgent and I think that we need to see whether things could happen

on the basis of unpredictable history can't teach us everything. I just piggyback and

I had two things. One is it requires a lot of money. Okay. And the other thing to your

point about personality, you need someone who's dynamic who can cross appeal. So it could

work and by work I mean it could siphon off enough votes to affect the election. If you

had an extremely rich person with dynamic personality who did it but I don't know Michael Bloomberg

could have done it but he chose to run in the Democratic Party so there's probably

reason for that. You need more of a personality than Michael Bowie?

That is so. How dare you. They've actually had personable people run before. It's not

that. It's that when a third party starts doing well, one of the other two parties steals

what made them popular and adopts it. Ross Perot did pretty well and I think the Republicans

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