Andrew Yang Podcast

David Jolly, former member of Congress and current NBC/MSNBC analyst, joins Andrew to discuss modern tribalism and changing political incentives. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/blAb5ftVRW4 Follow David Jolly: https://twitter.com/DavidJollyFL | https://davidjolly.com Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://forwardparty.com

Rob Richie is head of FairVote, a nonpartisan voting reform organization that advocates for Ranked Choice Voting and the Fair Representation Act. Rob joins Andrew to explain what Ranked Choice could mean for 2024. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QCIs_Z9MGNw Follow Rob Richie: https://twitter.com/rob_richie | https://fairvoteaction.org Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewy...

Jackie Salit is co-director of the Center for Independent and Sustainable Democracy at ASU. Salit helped pioneer the academic study of the independent voter and talks about how fusion voting works and why it helps emerging parties, how polling sleight of hand recategorizes independents as partisans, and how the independent voter has been misunderstood. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu....

Eboo Patel, president of Interfaith America, served on Obama's inaugural Faith Council and has spent the last twenty years championing religious diversity in America. Patel advocates for a peaceful, pluralistic approach to coexistence that is becoming a rarity in America. In a world defined by an "Us vs. Them" binary, Patel asks us to broaden our sense of "Us." Watch this episode on YouTube: https...

Zach is back with Andrew for a post-midterm postmortem, discussing the big news out of Nevada, abortion rights on the ballot across the country, and the GOP field in 2024. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gq-1j0adsD0 Follow Zach Graumann: https://twitter.com/zach_graumann | https://instagram.com/zachgraumann Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://forwardparty.c...

Rikki Schlott, New York Post columnist and co-host of the Lost Debate podcast, joins Andrew to talk about the energy heading into the midterms, the strategy surrounding debates, and setting the stage for the 2024 elections. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/63t1A6eRg5Q Follow Rikki Schlott: https://twitter.com/rikkischlott | https://rikkischlott.com Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitte...

With midterm elections just a week away, Matt Shinners, co-CEO of Forward Party, joins Andrew to discuss Forward's top priorities. Forward has endorsed Democrats, Republicans and Independents — most of whom are running against extremists. Plus, the ballot initiative in Nevada that could build real momentum for voting reform efforts across the country, and what you can do to help. Watch this episod...

Steve Case is the former CEO of AOL, and as chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, he saw the vast majority of investment funds going to just three places: Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. Case joins Andrew to talk about investing in the rest of America through companies like AppHarvest (Morehead, Kentucky) and StockX (Detroit, Michigan), reversing b...

Richard Reeves, senior fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution, joins Andrew to discuss the false choice in the gender equality discussion, the idea of redshirting boys, how to get more men in HEAL jobs, and defining a positive masculinity. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xnMuYiSlsOc Of Boys and Men: https://www.brookings.edu/book/of-boys-and-men/ Follow Richard Reeves: ht...

Andrew Frawley — the #2 employee on Yang2020, originator of the MATH Hat, and now the founder of the Good Life Movement — joins the podcast to discuss why organizing a mass movement for mental health is so critical, now more than ever. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mdQ4K5PrLuo Follow Andrew Frawley: https://twitter.com/TweetAtAndrew | https://goodlifemovement.org Follow Andrew Ya...

Francis Fukuyama, political scientist and senior fellow at Stanford, discusses the failure of classical liberalism to live up to its ideals, the resulting challenges to liberalism from left and right, and how liberalism can be modernized for the 21st century. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xmtDwNqo5QU Liberalism and Its Discontents - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374606718/li...

Futurist Ari Wallach joins Andrew to talk about overcoming the reactionary, short-term thinking that pervades today's society. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KlR65oVkqbM Follow Ari Wallach: https://longpath.org | https://twitter.com/AriW Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://forwardparty.com

Kait Saier, finance director for the Forward Party, joins Andrew to talk about growing up in Kentucky, bridging political bubbles, her passion for gun violence prevention, and the difficulty leaving the Democratic Party in a two-party system. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Vu96-rPQYak Follow Kait Saier: https://twitter.com/kleverkaitlin | https://fwdtogether.org Follow Andrew Yang...

Poker champion and investor Bill Perkins joins Andrew to talk about finding fulfillment by identifying life's Key Performance Indicators, investing in experiences, and why avoiding pain isn't always the best path. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EgVU8cfktAI Follow Bill Perkins: https://twitter.com/bp22 | https://diewithzerobook.com Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https...

Former Congressman Joe Sestak joins Andrew to talk about life as a Navy admiral, the importance of cybersecurity, and insights into restoring trust with voters. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k2sEnOZ-10U Follow Joe Sestak: https://twitter.com/joesestak | https://fwdtogether.org  Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://forwardparty.com

Steven Teles, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, joins Andrew to discuss what he calls the "Captured Economy," where conservative energy goes now, and the future of factions. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WA3N52iDBWw Follow Steven Teles: https://niskanencenter.org/author/steles | https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-future-is-faction Follow...

Lucy Caldwell, Joe Walsh's 2020 campaign manager, joins Andrew to discuss the strange experience of running against Trump in the Iowa caucuses, developing a different model for a political party, and why the decline of the Republican Party makes Democrats more vulnerable to doing anti-democratic things. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/p0qNIOIUCIk Follow Lucy Caldwell: https://twitt...

Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security and co-CEO of the Forward Party, discusses his journey from joining DHS after 9/11 to becoming a whistleblower inside the Trump administration. Miles talks about how he's dealt with threats to his personal safety, the danger Trump poses to democracy, and why saving the Republican Party became a lost cause. Watch this episod...

Andrew Yang and Matt Shinners, co-CEO of the Forward Party, talk about the merger that makes Forward Party the biggest third party in the US, how voters see the choice between Democrats and Republicans, and the political landscape for the midterms and beyond. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Yzu-_yxGj4M Follow Matthew Shinners: https://twitter.com/matt_shinners | https://forwardpart...

Zach and Andrew talk about questionable tactics used by Democrats, including boosting far-right candidates and trying to keep Green Party candidate Matthew Hoh off the ballot in North Carolina. Plus, Matthew Hoh joins to talk about what he's doing to fight back. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NYmNE2te-7A Follow Matthew Hoh: https://twitter.com/matthewphoh | https://matthewhohforse...

Jason Kander, veteran and host of the Majority 54 podcast, joins Andrew to discuss PTSD, the mental toll of public office, getting translators out of Afghanistan, and more. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MGDn1XMxLNE Invisible Storm: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/invisible-storm-jason-kander Follow Jason Kander: https://twitter.com/jasonkander | https://jasonkander.com Fol...

Andrew Yang sits down with comedian Shane Gillis to talk about SNL, growing up Asian in America, and the intersection of comedy and politics. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QRF7PgHF1Oc Follow Shane Gillis: https://twitter.com/Shanemgillis | https://shanemgillis.com Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://forwardparty.com

Jesse Ventura joins Andrew to talk about being an independent governor of Minnesota, the system of legalized bribery in the US, and his attempts to unionize the WWE. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pLpRus4gl7U Follow Jesse Ventura: https://twitter.com/GovJVentura | https://jesseventura.substack.com Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://forwardparty.com

Jeff Maurer, stand-up comedian and former Last Week Tonight writer, joins Andrew to discuss how he went from working at the EPA to writing for John Oliver, why Democrats need to learn how to add sugar, Trump's entertainment value, and the decline in institutional trust. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CJ6qi1YmEV8 Follow Jeff Maurer: https://twitter.com/jeffmightbwrong | https://imi...

Zach and Andrew break down the January 6th hearings, Yang explores stand-up comedy, and reflections on the podcast. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Xu874flbJBs Follow Zach Graumann: https://twitter.com/zach_graumann | https://instagram.com/zachgraumann Follow Andrew Yang: https://twitter.com/andrewyang | https://forwardparty.com