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  • so yeah a while back Andrew yang was on the Joe Rogan experience podcast and I

  • just finally finished checking it out and we're going to discuss the man

  • himself presidential candidate Andrew yang what

  • is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the

  • problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I try to

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  • this podcast episode was from about six months ago I know Andrew yang has some

  • newer appearances and you know the next round of debates is coming up very soon

  • but anyways like I've been following Andrew yang for a while and I like the

  • things that he has to say but I wanted to learn more

  • so anyways real quick too this is the second video in a row that I've done

  • bike I watched this so you don't have to here's the thing I don't know I kind of

  • want to do this more often because I know a lot of people don't

  • like reading books a lot of people don't like long-form content I know a lot of

  • people do like those things but like if I can condense those things and discuss

  • some points that I think are important that you should know about I might do

  • that so if you like that let me know down in the comments below

  • all right I'm long-winded but I try to shorten what the original content was

  • because yeah Andrew yang on the Joe Rogan experience podcast was about two

  • hours or so and so anyways like let's talk about Andrew yang let me kind of

  • talk about my opinions and predictions but anyways here's what I dig about

  • Andrew yang like this dude is trying to get to the root of the

  • so as somebody who is trying to help people with their mental health and I've

  • you know had to work on my own mental health I overcame my own opioid

  • addiction seven years ago my alcoholism depression anxiety all those things like

  • something I realize which is very important for anything for anything is

  • getting down to the root of the problem all right the way I think about him the

  • way I see a lot of people operating is they're hacking away at the tree

  • branches and they're like why isn't this tree gone because you didn't get down to

  • the roots baby all right and what I appreciate about Andrew yang

  • like I made a video about this a while ago and it was telling something along

  • the lines of like Andrew yang is the only you know candidate who cares about

  • mental health of people well he's not the only one but he realizes that that

  • is the the root of the issue right so in the podcast like Joe Rogan talks to him

  • about like what inspired you to run for president right and I respect his answer

  • like he was looking around he saw all these problems he thought people are

  • miserable and things like that people are miserable angry all sorts of stuff

  • and he's a problem solver he's like what can we do to solve this problem and he

  • just starts looking at different angles to take in it's like okay well let's

  • start here and something that he's running on is universal basic income or

  • the freedom dividend which is $1,000 a month but it's not just like top level

  • like Oh give everybody $1,000 he understands the root of the problem like

  • I want you to sit here and be honest with yourself all right

  • think about your biggest stresses in life think about how many arguments

  • you've had in your household and think about how many of those were related to

  • your financial situation right like working all day at a job that you don't

  • like coming home stressed because of money issues right you're at a job all

  • day that you don't like and you're stressed about money like that's a

  • double whammy or maybe you're unemployed and things

  • like that like something Andrew yang talks a lot about is automation

  • he wants people to get into more creative careers things that cannot be

  • replaced by machines right but he mentioned something that was just so on

  • point to where he talks about how when people's mental health improves they're

  • less they're less racist than less misogynist right like they're less angry

  • and it's like yes you guys that is true when you look at all the anger in the

  • world and people just like oh you know they're they're taking this away from us

  • and they're taking this away from us and all these other things and that is one

  • of the reasons why divisive politics work so well when candidates are able to

  • tell you that those people are to blame it's easy and they get to play into your

  • anger which is really rooted in fear right how am I gonna support my family

  • how am I gonna support myself I'm gonna put food on the table how am I gonna

  • keep a roof over my head all these things that we start looking for people

  • to blame so once like what Andrew yang is costly saying it's like taking the

  • boot off of people's neck like people are gonna be able to breathe a little

  • bit and like if we can get most of the country just a little bit happier like

  • think about it like think about that right now like a lot of you have seen me

  • do videos recently on like outrage culture and canceled culture and

  • something that I keep coming back to is why is everybody so angry right and

  • there's a million reasons for it there are so many reasons for right there are

  • people who either you know they believe they're being oppressed or they

  • legitimately are being oppressed but that oppression leads to them not having

  • as many opportunities and the reason why it is putting them in this angered state

  • is because with a lack of opportunities means their financial standpoint in life

  • isn't all that great right fear turns into anger and then you have people just

  • screaming at each other online like part of outraged culture online is because

  • people have their own stuff in their life that they're dealing with that they

  • have little to no control over so there's

  • when their anger out all over the Internet so when Andrew yeh talks about

  • how this is going to improve mental health I'm like yes yes yes yes and if

  • you want to check out the whole podcast on the Joe Rogan experience I'm gonna

  • link it down below because he goes really in-depth on like mental health

  • studies suicide rates opioid addiction and everything like the part where you

  • talked in this podcast about the opioid crisis and how like doctors and even big

  • pharma are you know they're incentivized to make money like doctors they try to

  • peddle these pain pills to you right even if you don't really need them like

  • so many things that are an issue he also had a good answer for talking about free

  • college which I thought was interesting because I love me some Bernie Sanders

  • I'm gonna talk about that in a second but he was talking about how you know if

  • you get the freedom dividend like if you want to use that for college cool but

  • and I do believe this to be true is that we keep selling people on the idea that

  • college is the only way but he talks about how forty four percent of college

  • graduates you know they they either don't find a job or they find a job you

  • know that they're overqualified for you see what I mean like they're not getting

  • something that they pursue the career there now personally my opinion on that

  • a lot of people major and really dumb things in college and that's happy years

  • here right there but anyways like I was starting to realize how how well-rounded

  • Andrew yang is but it always comes back to the root issue where people are

  • depressed people are angry people are miserable like this is why people are

  • turning to drugs and alcohol this is why people are turning to suicide because of

  • that misery so can't we work on making people a little bit happier happier

  • because what he talks about is getting rid of the GDP right gauging our

  • nation's success on money because this is something I try to teach people on a

  • personal level to do not gauge like your success on how much money you make or

  • the things that you buy because we know most of us know by this stage in

  • our life I don't even know how old you are but you've probably figured out by

  • now that money does not make you happy now money does decrease stress but what

  • andrew yang is talking about is not measuring the country's overall success

  • on how much money we're making but how happy are people it's like yeah like you

  • guys like what what is the point of anything if we're not striving to just

  • be a little bit happier right if I ask you right now separate two separate

  • things right would you rather have infinite money or infinite happiness

  • right like logically you choose happiness right like if I could figure

  • out a way to be happy with zero dollars I would take that any day of the week

  • all right because we've seen in this all the time like every celebrity death is

  • another example that money cannot guarantee your happiness it can just

  • decrease your stress all right so anyways the last thing I want to talk

  • about is I'm a huge huge fan of Bernie Sanders and I've mentioned this before I

  • think it'd be awesome if it was you know Bernie and then VP Andrew yang and maybe

  • I'll do a whole separate video on this if you want me to like kind of comparing

  • the two let me know down in the comments below but I just feel like Bernie has

  • more experience right but it sounds like Andrew yang knows what he's talking

  • about but I also think one thing that Bernie Sanders has going for him is is

  • that kind of passion and emotion right and like like I don't think Bernie plays

  • into fear the way some politicians do such as like Donald Trump and things

  • like that but Bernie Sanders can play into people's emotions and get people

  • like excited and wild up you know and Andrew yang is just like a chill dude so

  • I don't know I just foresee Bernie doing a little bit better but I do want to

  • make videos talking about this stuff to get awareness out there and something I

  • really need to do maybe it'll be my next book like

  • after sitting down listening to two hours of Andrew yay I really want to

  • read his book but I'm gonna check out some more podcast I know Bernie Sanders

  • was recently on the Joe Rogan experience podcast and everything like that so I'm

  • gonna check that out too maybe I'll do a breakdown of that but yeah before I

  • forget too one thing that I just really like about Andrew yang too is he he

  • doesn't talk he doesn't talk extensively about foreign policy stuff alright he

  • wants to help the United States get better and he's not saying shut off the

  • rest of the world or anything like that and you have some great you know talking

  • points when it comes to immigration and all of that kind of stuff but you guys

  • like the way I see it is is this it's it's kind of like the oxygen mask

  • analogy right like you put yours on before you help anybody else and the

  • reality is like our country right now with the amount of people struggling

  • with depression you know the amount of people struggling with anxiety the

  • amount of people turning to drugs is a form of self-medication the amount of

  • people who are you know committing suicide and all that like we have a lot

  • of work to do here making people happier and then we can go save the rest of the

  • world but right now right now it's kind of like you being pretty broke pretty

  • poor and trying to financially support somebody else so we start here and then

  • we expand outwards and help others you know what I'm in anyways let me know

  • your thoughts on that down below and if you want me to do more videos about this

  • or just like different candidates and kind of condensing you know their

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so yeah a while back Andrew yang was on the Joe Rogan experience podcast and I

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