The American Exchange Project

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Humanity Forward Productions

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In a country where political division is being exacerbated by urban-rural divides, how can we increase mutual understanding? David McCullough thinks he has the answer in the American Exchange Project, which sends American high school seniors to different parts of the country the summer right after they graduate. Andrew sits down with David to talk about the project, progress that's been made, and the impact it's had so far. If the American Exchange trip becomes a new civic rite of passage, could we start to bridge the divide in the US? Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XtcQ431-_gI Follow David McCullough: https://americanexchangeproject.org | https://twitter.com/travelwithAEP Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang Get 50% off Factor at https://factormeals.com/yang50 Get an extra 3 months free at https://expressvpn.com/yang Get 20% off + 2 free pillows at https://helixsleep.com/yang code helixpartner20 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	This week on forward.
0:04.0	I believe that this ought to be as normal to the high school experience as the prom.
0:11.0	I think it should be our nation's civic right of passage and going to a different
0:14.6	American town at some point during or right after your senior year of high school ought to be
0:20.3	ritual. Given how freaked out most of us are about the lack of friends that a lot of young people have,
0:27.0	I mean, this could be a godsend.
0:30.0	Three quarters of white Americans don't have a friend who's not white.
0:33.3	Forty percent of Americans have never met a farmer,
0:35.8	two-thirds have never met a native American.
0:37.6	I think that we're shunning each other,
0:40.4	we're dehumanizing each other because we don't know each other. It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast one of my favorite social entrepreneurs in the whole country, the co-founder and CEO of the American Exchange Project.
1:02.0	David McCullough the third. Welcome, David. of the American Exchange Project.
1:02.6	David McCullough the third.
1:04.1	Welcome David.
1:05.1	Great to be here, Andy.
1:06.6	Thank you for having it.
1:07.6	So David, one reason I love the American Exchange Project so much
1:12.1	is that I'd actually campaigned on something similar back in the day. I said, you know what, seniors in high school should be able to go someplace else in the country, maybe hang out in another town for a number of days and then they
1:26.1	would come back, they'd have new friends, a whole new perspective.
1:29.6	And everywhere I went, people were like, oh, that's a great idea.
1:32.4	That's a great idea. Now you are infinitely cooler than any of those people because you actually said, you know what, I'm going to make that happen.
1:42.8	So how the heck did you wind up going on this journey?
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