A Toddler's Airport Conveyor Belt Adventure & America's Crippling Student Loan Crisis | Andrew Yang

Jul 25, 2019

A toddler takes a ride on an airport conveyor belt, student debt reaches devastating levels in the U.S., and Andrew Yang discusses his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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July 25th 2019

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I guess tonight is an entrepreneur and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is joining us everybody

also on tonight's show you're not having enough kids animals are out of control and why your parents might be moving in with you so let's catch up on today's headlines let's kick it off with a crazy video from an airport in Atlanta because we all hate going through the security line at Esa but one toddler found an interesting way around it now to a toddler's wild ride at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport this two-year-old climbs on the baggage belt and disappears in an instant the toddler caught up with all the other bags worry enters and passes through an x-ray machine is horrifying travels then send him into a massive bag room where workers quickly discover him riding down the belt and rushed to his Rescue Team Spirit Airline says the boy passed by a section of our ticket counter that was not staffed or open at the time freaking out and I'm like oh my goodness I hope he's okay

yo that Mom is really chilled I hope you're having a good ride because if I was a parent that experience would have terrified me because the airline could have charged me for extra check-in luggage like that's scary and can I say if I didn't see that video I wouldn't believe the story at all because it sounds like the plot of one of those babies day out movies you know that like the kid goes in and then it's in the cargo and the ends up in Paris and then somehow a cat burglar at the Louvre gets stop committing a crime and then they make the baby the president of France that you did it baby you did it

and honestly honestly I even got a little scared when I saw the boy going through the X-ray machine but it turns out it's not actually that dangerous and it's also how they found out that he was full of cocaine by the way by the way by the way raise your hand if you were not surprised at all when they said it was spurred Airlines yeah of course it was really lines I bet this wasn't even an accident I bet the kids just found out that his parents were flying spirit and he was like oh hell no it's like I'll take my chances with the luggage Spirit Airlines the cargo hold is our first class

moving on

if you saw the video of that toddler and thought I don't ever want the stress of having kids well it turns out you aren't the only one the fertility rate in the United States falling to an all-time low the number of births Nationwide has been on the decline in recent years of study by the Centers for Disease Control says the general fertility rate dropped to percent among girls and women 15 to 44 between 2017 and 2018 that is the lowest number of births and about three decades and according to the CDC the fertility rate is now below the level needed to replace the existing population that's right facility in America has now reached an all-time low which means people aren't having kids more people on having kids more people aren't having multiple kids I bet when Donald Trump saw this he was like yep many as donor kids many of us know kids and Eric was like Dad you have me is like like I said we don't have kids no kids no I have

few theories about why this is happening first of all climate change yeah because it's getting way too hot to have sex honestly I spent last weekend just spooning my AC I was like yeah just me and you but I think another problem is the terminology that science is used because you hear them they're like there aren't enough kids born to replace the current population that's us what do you replace the current pop they make it sound like if you have a baby the baby's gonna look up with you in the Maternity Ward be like times up old man

and finally there's a pretty crazy story being a policeman can be a really stressful job you know you have to chase criminals you have to solve crimes and you have to help white people lost their neighbor to turn down their volume but for cops in New York now they've got a whole new worry that's disturbing the cops outrage among NYPD union leaders and the mayor after NYPD officers were doused with buckets of water during an arrest crowded Harlem throws buckets and pours water on officers in the middle of making an arrest in a separate incident another video shows it happening again bystanders laughs and record videos but no one helps the man dumping the blue bucket is a known gang member he since turned himself in to police okay I don't even know how to process this information people are pouring buckets of water on the police first of all can we commend those police for being away comma

any of us would have been in that situation

real real kudos to them because we've seen people get shot for doing much less than this and also those gang members are lucky that those police were calm and they lucky that those police weren't black women you pour water on a black woman's hair my friends he will shoot you and then read you your Miranda Rights your dead body she be like your dead ass has the right to remain silent now this is a messed-up story it's a massive story but it's a testament to New York strict gun laws because think about it right these gangsters had water wouldn't we all want to live in a world where gang members only had access to water will be a completely different world all right that's it for the headlines let's move on to our top story

in the Democratic primary campaign each candidate is trying to carve out a signature issue to run on Kirsten gillibrand is talking about gender equality Jay Inslee is promoting his plan for climate change and better or rock is laser focused on doing the sickest kickflip you've ever seen this is for my Muchachos at the border but there's one issue that all the major Democrats are talking about student debts it is one of the biggest issues right now on the campaign Trail student loan debt affecting millions of Americans struggling to keep up with their payments this is a national crisis student loan crisis student loan debt is something we have got to deal with as a priority Elizabeth Warren is officially introducing a bill aimed at eliminating student debt for tens of millions of Americans bottom line is we should not be punishing people for getting a higher education it is time to hit the reset button I love Bernie so much man huh

straight time to hit the reset button which by the way is always what it looks like he's doing when he speaks the you know it's just time to hit the reset button hit the reset button on the Wi-Fi hit the reset button on student debt we have to hit every button within arm's length all the button all of the buttons at the mall

but yes the Democratic candidates led by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are all proposing different ways to combat student debt and the reason this is such a big issue is because America is drowning in student debt like never before this year student loan debt reached an all-time high of one point four trillion dollars nearly 70% of students had to take out loans to make it through college on average each student graduated about $30,000 in debt one of the things that make student loan debts such a drag on the economy is that it's so hard to get rid of that's right in many ways student debts is the new herpes almost everybody has its it stays with you your whole life and eventually you're going to have to tell your fiance about it like so there's this thing I picked up in college and here's the thing student debt isn't just a financial burden it's also making it hard for people to grow up nearly 50 percent of Millennials have delayed

to buying a home or saving for retirement due to student loan debt 17% have delayed getting married the amount of adults in their late 20s living with their parents or grandparents is the highest it has been in over 75 years living with his parents in Verona New Jersey is not what 23 year-old Anthony De Candia envisioned after graduating from college last year but then again he didn't Envision being 80 thousand dollars in student debt either obviously I love my family I love the free food and I love my dog but I'm just ready to move on and live on my own yeah man this kid is not special he's not alone across the country College grads are being forced to move back in with their parents because of crippling student debts even that dog that dog wanted to move out but he still paying off loans from obedience school whose it broke boy who's your broke boy it's not real dead calm down because my God they're dead

of that dog so student debt is seriously hampering the lives of young people across the United States but before you start rolling your eyes at these whiny Millennials remember just like herpes student debt doesn't discriminate by age student loan debt is also crushing senior citizens American 60 and over carrying 86 billion dollars in student loan debt baby boomers are paying off student loans into their 60s 70s and Beyond because of student loans we are literally driving tens of thousands of older Americans into poverty they will literally cease your social security benefit student loans are structured to be paid over a very long period of time they have no statute of limitations which means that they follow you they can follow you till you die God damn student loans can follow you until you die

we hope that's where it stops oh would suck if you were still paying off your loans in heaven you know Jesus and Martin Luther King jr. I like Hey we're gonna go ride unicorns you want to come and you're like oh I can't I gotta work a shift at Blockbuster Blockbusters in heaven that's that's where they are now mr. Blockbuster the point is the point is student debt is affecting everyone young people old people the Village People mean why do you think they were living at the YMCA so whether you're a parent or a kid there was a good chance that student debt is negatively affecting your quality of life because old people are losing Social Security and young adults are being forced to move back in in fact if something drastic doesn't change its going to reshape the American family forever and it's going to reshape all of those Family TV shows

he can't afford his student loans and he's got no job he moved back home and now his entire family with our that

hey Mom and Dad I'm moving back home because I can't afford to pay my student loans some people send us about two bowling balls my unpaid bills

surprising new bodily fluid you can sell for cash mom dad there's a weird guy in my room as Pete we had to sublet your room to make ends meet no way I want my own room you want to start paying rent hey Pete I call top bunk hey I'm in school low debt collector open the door hey over here come on with student loan debt on your own damn spot stupid-ass master's degree in the one way to get out of this student loan debt honey don't

you know we can't afford the funeral make a great point

hey Dad thanks for selling your kidney to pay off my student loans it's nothing I guess I love my kid more than my kidney my guys are hungry they missed a how we pay for that oh we didn't its liver

what would you do doesn't like it she became a lot everybody

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my guest tonight is an entrepreneur and founder of venture for America he's also running for president of the United States please welcome Andrew yang

thank you guys welcome to the show it's great to be here thank you so much for having of all the candidates I've seen on the trail you seem to be having the most fun all you all it's a very low bar you said Trevor does it even mean you are you like out there you've got a cool music you like rapping at like campaign events it feels like Andrea and you just like you having a good time whilst you're putting out your policy proposals the only place where you didn't seem like you were having fun was that the debates where I think you had two minutes and 53 seconds of total time that you spoke what you going to do differently in the next one to get more time you're going to cough you going to like interject a uni I'm assuming you weren't happy yeah I'm really happy to say though that the debate in Detroit next week's going to be a very different story not only is a format really set up for us to succeed but I just got to pull just now that puts us on a path to the path to qualify for the debates in September as well

right the debates is a whole string and unlike a lot of the other candidates were in great position to be here the entire way so you're running a long-term race you know you've come in as somewhat of an outsider you know you don't entrepreneur you come from Silicon Valley that is your world and many of your policies have been aimed at or from that Direction one of the biggest ones being you've been called for some the Doomsday candidate where you said guys if we don't do something a robot's about robots and AI then it's over for human beings what do you mean when you say this to people well I looked at the numbers I did the math around what happened to many of the manufacturing workers in the midwest that in my view ended up electing Donald Trump yes and the trends that affected those communities are now going to affect retail workers which is the number one job in the United States it's going to start hitting truck drivers in the next number of years and driving a truck is the most common job in 29 States wow and one of the things that I say is like look when you call a customer service line right now you get that operator in a few years it's going to be an AI that sounds like this hey

to go and Trevor what can I do for you that's creepy but it's creepy but what's that gonna do you think it's going to get that good you think it's going to get to the point where even human jobs are now completely done by Ai and robots certainly a lot of the business process jobs there are two and a half million Americans who do customer service for a living right now and that jobs days are numbered unfortunately so then what do you what do you think you do and that circumstance do you put a tax on robots do you do you protect the workers is an honest proposal it sounds really loud no it's actually pretty good idea it's actually like an honest proposal like what do you say to American workers who go hey I don't have a job and and I want to I want to I want to change this that's exactly right Amazon right now is closing 30 percent of America's stores and malls and paying zero in taxes so what we do is we set up a mechanism where the American people get our fair share of every Amazon sale every Google search every robot truck Mile and put a dividend into Americans hands of a thousand dollars a month the freedom dividend would help all Americans feel

we're benefiting from all of the progress and Innovation that's an interesting and

yeah a lot of people like that because I mean it takes guts to come out and say the my plan is that we will give every single American a thousand dollars a month just for being here yeah it's like Monopoly but instead of passing go it's the first of the month you just get yeah but now but now here's the thing I don't know if you've played Monopoly it always ends in tears and that's what people are saying would happen if you gave people Universal Universal basic income you know yes the smaller countries have trialed it but they have found for instance in some Scandinavian countries that then people don't work enough or they don't want to work they lose ambition there is a negative effect to that how do you pay for it and how do you ensure that it doesn't mean people just don't contribute to society well what I've looked at all of the studies as to what happened when people got money only two groups worked less new mothers who spend more time with their children and teenagers who spend more time in school and graduate at higher levels I don't think anyone here is a problem with others

and then how do you pay for and and the way you pay for it again if you have a trillion dollar tech company like Amazon paying zero in taxes then of course you can look around me like where's the money going where's the right but if you give the American people a slice of every Amazon sale every day I driven interaction yes just a sliver because the amount of value that that technology is going to generate can literally be measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars like we have to put ourselves in position to benefit and then we can pay for a dividend of $1,000 a month but how is this different to text because I mean isn't that what text supposed to be everyone getting a Slither of what people make so that the general Society can rise up I mean if they find a way to not pay what you're saying why would you know I mean they don't pay now why would they pay then well the great thing is I'm friendly with a lot of the technologists and they're not evil people if you say to them hey you automating away the jobs and you're in private they're like oh yeah yeah I'm doing that that sounds evil to me well they're not doing it

he is just like a repercussion God I've got a word it's okay and then if you say to them would you like to give up a slice so that America actually is in position to share and benefit you know they say to me they say no one's ever asked me that before so what we have to do is we have to give them really in this case is we're not going inventories we're going to make it happen right but but half of them are on board with it because their parents their Americans many of them came from other parts of the country and so they understand what's happening more than most other people do in terms of the economic impact that's interesting that they've never been off because I want I met Jeff Bezos and I didn't think of just saying can I have some of your money we don't think of these things yeah maybe you should've asked if we genuinely don't think of that you are tackling this whole campaign from a different point of view one of my favorite quotes that you said was you said you are the complete opposite of Donald Trump and the reason was because it

because the opposite of Donald Trump is an Asian man who likes math

how do you think math helps you in in campaigning because it know because it feels like Americans like move the show Americans like more of the celebrity as opposed to the numbers and the percentage do you think you can break through with just the math of what you're proposing what's fun is math is now an acronym that stands for make America think harder

it's certainly not immigrants that are driving these economic problems right it's the fact that our economy is now progressing to a point where things have changed fundamentally and when I go around to people in Ohio New Hampshire there's actually a huge appetite for this type of solution people say to me all the time you don't sound like any politician I've ever heard before and they love it they're not like oh get me a politician fast but they say is you don't sound like any other politician and this is what we need so there is such a massive Market need I'm an entrepreneur and so you see there's a market need and this case I saw that our politicians were not going to address the elephant in the room so to speak right and so I decided to run for president well it's going to be exciting I hope you make it to the next one and the next one comes from having you around

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