Wanda Sykes on cancel culture, UBI, and the 2020 election

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

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4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and activist Wanda Sykes joins the podcast to share her thoughts on the 2020 election and whether cancel culture has gone too far; Andrew asks Wanda if she's on board with UBI and makes a prediction for the election.

Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ssN3BIFkq5A

Wanda Sykes - https://twitter.com/iamwandasykes | https://www.netflix.com/title/81011598

Andrew Yang - https://movehumanityforward.com | https://twitter.com/AndrewYang

Zach Graumann - https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann

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0:00.0	Do you have a take on whether cancel culture is like at the right place, a little bit overboard,
0:09.8	still more work to be done?
0:11.2	You know, I go back and forth on that, but yeah, I'm not for somebody does one thing wrong
0:21.7	and then we banish them.
0:25.0	I mean, in your case, it's more complicated too for the fact that you actually know a lot
0:28.6	of people as human beings and there's like a natural temptation if you know someone
0:31.6	as a human being, you'd be like, oh, I like I know that person.
0:34.5	That's like a human being.
0:36.3	Sometimes you know the human being, you're like, oh, that person isn't assholes.
0:38.6	Yeah, I don't like that.
0:40.6	I don't like that.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.6	Yeah.
0:44.6	Other times you'd be like, that person's actually okay.
0:47.1	That was just some really dumb thing.
0:48.9	You know, I wish we had a finer way to distinguish between those two situations.
0:54.3	You can see it.
0:55.3	You can see the people that don't come to the defense.
1:00.1	Really?
1:01.1	Is that the way it is?
1:02.1	Yeah, everybody's like, uh-huh.
1:03.1	Okay, finally, got them.
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