I know what you're thinking Chris how you gonna go from talking about Danny
Cohen to 2020 presidential candidate Andrew yang well that's just how I roll
what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
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notification bell so it's currently 2019 next year we will be electing a new
president something that we should all care about
there's the presidential elections I know I have a lot of international
viewers as well and if you are international let me know down in the
comments like how much do you guys pay attention to the United States
presidential election I know during the last one there was a
lot of stuff going on I saw a lot of people talking about it on an
international level anyways we do need to cut all right like what is it goals
of my channel is to kind of just put a spotlight on different things going on
like in you know pop culture TV you know music movies but also like the elections
like we need to look at like what affects our day-to-day lives now I know
a lot of you you know you told me that you have political anxiety a lot of it
is based on like you just don't like arguing with people like so let's be
cool down in the comments like I just want to make this video about my initial
thoughts on Andrew yang so I keep seeing this dude's name pop up him as well as
Pete Buddha gag these dudes right and yeah
so part of what I try to do I try to I personally try to find candidates that
along with my value since that I care about the things that I think are an
issue that the United States is facing so I've heard a lot about Andrew yang
and a friend was talk to me about it today I was like okay I'll do some
research so the first video I watched was an interview with him on the
channels of route which is an African American base channel where they talk a
lot about issues going on in the African American community so I want to be here
what Andrew yang views were on the struggles of the
african-american community for those of you who don't know right so as I was
watching it my first impression on that video was he was very agreeable he's
like oh yeah what boy yeah you know body cams on cops yeah you know like all
these things that he was being asked about yeah yeah yeah right okay like
it's easy for a presidential candidate just to say yes about everything so
something that keeps popping up like YouTube's like pushing it out to me is
Andrew yang was just interviewed by ben shapiro
so ben shapiro is pretty right-leaning and he's very controversial and
everything I'm like okay let's see how Andrew yang handles a conversation with
ben shapiro and surprisingly like you can't cool the whole time but seem like
they agreed more than they disagreed on on various issues what is interesting to
me um I do want to make a video about ben shapiro on his views on universal
basic income that is something that andrew yang is really pushing so anyways
like my initial thoughts just after these first two interviews with andrew
yang that i've seen like what do I agree with what do I disagree with how do I
like it as a person from what I can see and all that so like as time goes on
I'll learn more about him but these are just kind of my first impression so if
you know more about them and you want to educate me feel free to let me know down
in the comments below one of the things is is like it seems it seems like it's
looks like emotional than other people running which is it's good and bad like
one thing that I do enjoy about somebody like Bernie Sanders is like you could
really see that passion right now Andrew yang something that I've I picked
up on very quickly about Andrew yang is that he talks a lot about things that
I'm very passionate about which are mental health as well as the addiction
crisis specifically opioids in the United States and as he talks about his
views are different social and economic issues a lot of what he says ties back
to mental health that's something that I look for that something that I
here about because just the the mental healthcare system in the United States
sucks but like I look for root causes and things it's something like Andrew
yang is really pushing universal basic income but also you know he he wants to
do something we're all Americans get an extra thousand dollars every single
month and he talks about this and why he wants that and I've done a video in the
past about universal basic income and a study that they did up in Canada which
I'm kind of surprised about like it's not being brought up something that my
beautiful girlfriend mentioned like maybe that you know that study was you
know debunk maybe or there was some flaws in it maybe that's why he's not
referencing it but anyways there was a study that they did up in a small town
in Canada maybe like 20 or 30 years ago let's check that video out on it but
Andrew yang also brought up that this is something that they've been doing in
Alaska for a long time and Alaska's very white leaning state but they've been
doing this but it's a little bit different I believe he said they're
getting $1,000 per year where Andrew yang wants to do it a thousand dollars
per month but how does this affect like our mental health well when you look at
it like and this is something that I'm just trying to teach everybody right
like when you look at it you know the things that are affecting us like our
stress our anger issues and all that a lot of it is money based right like I
was I was having a conversation with my girlfriend earlier about this and it's
like how many how many household fights do you think happen because of money
issues right maybe it's stress about paying the bills maybe it's a job that a
person doesn't like maybe it's you know whatever like something that has to do
with finances how many fights do you think are happening and not even to the
extreme of like domestic violence but just like verbal and emotional abuse
now how many have households with children do you think this happens in
right because children are being subject to this to like I would be interested to
hear from you guys in the comments down below in your household how often is
money an issue you know what I mean so if everybody is getting extra sales
dollars maybe you would help lessen the stress so something I've talked about a
million times on my channel is no money does not guarantee happiness but it does
decrease stress okay so what are the arguments that ben shapiro brought up is
you know this kind of optimist view that if everybody gets an extra thousand
dollars they're gonna do something good with it or they're gonna pursue a hobby
or a passion or you know something like that and that's not guaranteed and seem
like andrew yang he's very real this thing about it he knows that some people
will not do that like for example I'm a recovering drug addict okay I've been
clean for six and a half years I think about if you would have given me an
extra thousand dollars a month six and a half years ago like that would have gone
straight to drugs just like that's what I would have done but anyways the study
that they did up in Canada what it was is when when people were getting a
universal basic income in let them be a little bit more you know choosy about
which type of job they would get like they didn't have to get a crappy job
right because they had something to fall back on and what this did was it made
employers has better working conditions because way now I know a lot of you are
working at the job a job where it's like the the employer or your boss is like
this like you know authoritarian kind of you like run this way in this way in
this way right but when there's more of that kind of balance of power where you
don't need that job hey I can see the argument where it kind of forces
employers to do something like run businesses a little bit better for the
employees alright so something else that came up was Andrew yang supports
single-payer health care but he does think you know if you want private
insurance you can still go ahead and do that but something that I often think
about too is and there's a question for you when it comes back to mental health
how many of you are stressed out or don't get the proper health care because
of the way our health care system currently is you have jacked up
prescription drug prices really high deductibles all these different things
and this can add up to stress as well and something that Andrew yang talks
about every time I've heard this guy speak so far he mentions depression
anxiety and stress as well as suicide rates
as well as the addiction crisis in the United States so I see that as being
something that it seems like it's in the forefront of his mind and just as
somebody who tries to analyze and read people like seeing him constantly go
back to those things I'm like okay it seems like this dude really cares about
the root causes now something I hope to learn about him in
the future going forward is his ideas of how to make this happen right because
right now in the political landscape like we we haven't even gotten down to
like the primaries and everything like that like you just have it's very noisy
and you have a bunch of candidates who are just saying things to appease people
to pander to people and everything like that but when you get somebody like
Bernie Sanders he's been in this game for decades now and he has plans to put
things into action you know what I mean so that's that's something I'm looking
forward to learning about when it comes to Andrew yang and like as far as like
political affiliation like like for me it's just about policies I don't care
what party you're in what policies are you looking to put into place to make
life better for everybody in this country like that's pretty much all
people want you know what I mean so anyways Andrew Young also has a book
out I'm thinking about reading it not sure not sure how political it is or you
know whatever like politics isn't something I'm just like constantly in
but it's something that I try to keep an eye on because like I said at the
beginning of this video it's something that affects all of us so even if you
want to stay out of political conversations don't worry like I'm gonna
bring them up like leading into the 2020 election like my channel is just about
bringing awareness of things that may affect each and every one of us me is
the person making these videos and you as the viewer you know what I mean so
anyways like I said if you know more about Andrew yang and his ideas of
policies or whatever it is if you're part of the yang gang how cool is that
man by the way let me know down the comments below but anyways that's all I
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