Can I still vote for Yang?

TIPS FOR ZACH - The transition is a little loud and I sometimes have to turn the volume - You should include links for your sponsors in the description so we can go buy the products - This isn't really a tip but the title of this episode makes it sound like this is going to be a series with a planned end. Are there not going to be other episodes that mental health is discusses?

It means a lot that Andrew Yang cares about me

Shortly after smart phones came out I could see several aspects that would certainly fuck people up. Especially people in their sensitive teenage years. It will only get worse if someone like Yang isn't in a position (preferably President) to work on regulating the negative aspects of such technology. Andrews overall vision, incite, knowledge and comprehensive understanding of human nature is second to none, as far as I have seen. Andrew can see the very roots of the problems, because he understands human nature so well. If the problems involve people, understanding human nature is a must to solve those problems. Yang has that covered in spades.

Having UBI in place will improve people's mental health in a big way. So will universal healthcare if it includes mental healthcare. One thing that really helped improve my mental health over the past few years is the practice of monthly goal setting. I have a system in which I only set one more goal than the number of goals I was able to complete the previous month, so as not to get overwhelmed. The system is great and I feel like I'm truly embracing life the way I always wanted to. As far as trying to regulate the use of smartphones and modern technology... good luck with that. Andrew, please don't make too many enemies around this topic or let it be the hill you're willing to die on. Correlation is not causation. How would you go about regulating it anyway? Make it illegal for 15-year-olds to create social media accounts?

Andrew Yang's positivity is good for my mental health.

I always thought it was madness that people didn't talk about mental health in politics. People with mental and/or psychical disabilities makes up a gigantic percentage of the world. They deserve just as much attention as anyone else, if not more so. Thanks to Andrew for bringing this up!

Thank you for bring light to this topic, seriously.

Thank you Andrew. I am a Psychology major and I've often felt frustrated and confused because most people don't seem concerned about mental health. And yes most people are afraid to tell people that they are depressed. That's why we're all sitting at home trying not to panick because we think everyone else is doing better, myself included. So thank you for confirming in this podcast that we are all struggling and not doing well right now. I don't like being this way but I am relieved to hear that I am not alone in these feelings and in fact I am normal.

While I think technology provides its own challenges, I don't think the overall mental health is getting worse because of it. I think the young kids today are finding themselves stuck in a cycle of abuse that go back to the beginning of human history. I think the real uncomfortable conversation we have to have is that as adults, we just don't treat children well, and we don't take our responsibility to raise them seriously because we are too self-absorbed, because we haven't recovered from our own personal traumas. Psychology is a relatively young field, and I think we're just starting to realize how disconnected and detached we really are from our true loving potential. Technology can play to our worse instincts, but it's just a symptom. Intergenerational trauma is where the real story is.

Greetings from Newfoundland, Canada! I absolutely love this podcast! You make a lot of great points, and you have even greater ideas to address them! I truly believe that a lot of what you say could prove to be beneficial not just for the US of A in the future, but the whole world! All the best on your journey, Mr.Yang!

Did Yang Speaks go from 2k subscribers to over 24k subscribers in the course of a week or is that just me? Congrats!!!

Awe man another podcast where I don’t get to see Yang’s face :(

I was amused when Zack was endorsing Freshly by saying he tried to cook fish and failed horribly :)

Very Interesting Podcast. Should have 9 Millions Views, Not 9 thousand...

Why aren't the podcasts recorded on ZOOM or any other video form? It would be more impactful if we can see Yang and the people he is interviewing. My 8th grader can ZOOM..this seems a little archaic. Yang can connect with CNN via satellite, seems odd ( the tech guy) is not doing podcasts, like Rogan

Looking forward to hearing Rutger Bregman on the show. When will that be?

I like that my iPad dies the screen time notification. Apps should have a running timer to let people know how much time they spend on them

Holy shit, Twenge? I know that name! From Dr. Peter Gray's book Free to Learn: . “One thing we know for sure about anxiety and depression is that they correlate strongly with people’s sense of control or lack of control over their own lives. Those who believe they are in charge of their own fate are much less likely to become anxious or depressed than are those who believe their are victims of circumstances beyond their control…the data indicate that young people’s sense of control over their own destinies has declined continuously.” - p. 16 . “Twenge and her colleagues analyzed the results of many studies that had assessed locus of control with groups of college students and children age 9-14 from 1960 to 2002. They found for both age groups that over this period, average scores shifted dramatically, away from the internal toward the external end of the scale, so much so, in fact, that the average young person in 2002 was more external (more prone to lack of personal control) than were 80 percent of young people in the 1960s.” - p. 16-17 . “Free play is nature’s means of teaching children they are not helpless. In play, away from adults, children really do have control and can practice asserting it. In free play, children learn to make their own decisions, solve their own problems, create and abide by rules, and get along with others as equals rather than as obedient or rebellious subordinates…In school, by contrast, children cannot make their own decisions; their job is to do as they are told…children who felt most pressured by their parents to achieve in school and were most frequently shuttled from one extracurricular activity to another were the most likely to feel anxious or depressed.” - p. 18 . “research psychologists… conducted a study of happiness and unhappiness in public school students grades 6th through 12th…participants filled out a questionnaire indicating where they were, what they were doing, and how happy or unhappy they were at the moment. The lowest levels of happiness by far occurred when children were at school, and the highest levels occurred when they were out of school and conversing or playing with friends.” - p. 18-19

#askyangspeaks : can you please interview Yancey Strickler?? I feel like you guys have a common perspective on how the world today values the wrong priorities or gives too much emphasis to capital efficiency and Strickler has a great method of rethinking the way you live your life and an approach on how to make decisions that I’m sure we can all use on an individual but also societal level

A huge issue that’s overlooked is the food we are eating. We have been sickened by Big Food. You can’t have a healthy mind if you don’t have a healthy body. Exercise is another piece of this puzzle. We stress organized sports and set up every activity like it’s work. Let’s think about adding movement for it’s own sake and adding a healthy diet to any plan to improve mental health.

Question: when enforcing age limits, how to stop people from using a fake ID? I was born in 1990 and I used a fake ID at 12.

"We know more about the universe than what we know about human brain" a quote from a recruit letter for volunteers from my university neurology research department. I was 1 of 19 top students recruited for the multi-year study on "successful students" only to back out of it on first day when they tried to put electronic probes on my head. Lol. I am quite confident that my IQ is very high, but my EQ probably just average at best. I wonder if school should help strengthen kids EQ.

This is why proper yoga and meditation are so important! Anyone who's made those two a daily practice will vouch as to rejuvenating, energizing, calming they are. It's a huge reset button!

The podcast is awesome but here's some feedback if you don't mind: The transitions aren't needed. They're way to loud but why have any transitions at all once the guest has been introduced? Zach is great but isn't necessary at all on these podcasts. The chunked out conversation pieces that he's apart of simply detracts from the guest. The podcast would be absolutely amazing if it was just Andrew and a guest talking. No Zach... no transitions... nothing like that. Just Yang and the guest. Why complicate it?

Could you chat with Prof Guy Standing? He is like *the* expert in UBI and would love to see you guys deep dive into the actual data around the idea from an academic and policy perspective

I stopped using my phone.... it no longer bugs me I keep it on silent...... and if ya didn't know the alarm still works on silent !!!!!!!!! just in case you still want to use it as an alarm, but not get distracted at the same time.....

omg where is the video!

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Zach: "I probably don't do five full days of work..." Andrew: "You're fired Zach" HAHAHA

I feel adults used to hate loud lunch rooms and raucous teens running everywhere and now they’re upset about it

Matters of the heart have their own measuring sticks and call to actions... If You, Bernie, Tulsi and Marianne were still in the race... We'd feel lot less anxiety and depression... During this time we need your/other perspectives and contributions...

This might seem like a dumb idea but I'd love to see Andrew have a streamed conversation with Dr. K (HealthyGamerGG) on Twitch. He's a Harvard trained psychiatrist that's doing a lot of good in pushing mental wellness, especially with younger people. His conversations usually mimic a therapy session so I think it could be a good opportunity for Andrew to "put his money where his mouth is", so to speak, and help de-stigmatize mental health first hand.

Need to increase wages if you shorten work week. People's expenses would not decrease so neither can their incomes.

God's not real but this man is an angel

3% to 37%..... wow! I anticipated it would go up considerably, but these numbers are shocking.

You need America's Will, & America needs you, keep going!😎

Sorry, I agree with you quite a lot, but this time I don't. If you had any idea how many young people's lives I have touched in a positive way as a streamer on Twitch, you wouldn't be so quick to treat technology as the problem. Adults are the problem. Parents who don't treat their children with respect are the problem. If anything we should ask ourselves: Why have we deluded ourselves so heavily with "stranger danger" paranoia, that we restrict young people to only peers or family for relationships? Here is an example: I was friends with a girl in a LOTR group on Facebook. After a few years, we added each other so we didn't clutter up the comments. Further, we wanted to talk more about personal stuff, not just rumors about the Hobbit movies. She confided in me that her parents thought real life friendships mattered more than friends online. It didn't matter if the school was filled with smokers and drinkers. It didn't matter that she really did not like her classmates' lifestyle. Fast forward a couple more years and she said her parents were fed up with her online friends. She was to block them all immediately. This included me. I was very very hurt by this, but does the lady in the podcast consider my pain? No. Furthermore, I checked in with her 2 years later on my secondary Facebook account, and she was a completely different person. She gave up on her hobbies to "fit in" at school. She apparently tried to date one of those guys she always said she hated when I first spoke to her. And guess what? He had dumped her recently with no explanation. And he started dating someone else the next day. In spite of all this, her parents still had a strict no friends online rule. So I said I am always here on my primary account if she ever needs to talk, and I logged out. Moral of the story? Some young people just won't fit in at their geographic location. Some people need to search far and wide for a friend they can truly love. Heck, once that happens, they can start searching for a boyfriend or girlfriend. All this requires parents to stop being stuck in the 90s with paranoia. AND it requires parents to actually pay attention to who their kid talks to online. I once spent 2 years talking to a Hungarian teen, while her mom would talk to me from time to time. After that, I traveled to them for a visit. It was awkward at times (language barrier and the first time they met a foreigner as a friend), but the end result was a stronger relationship with the girl, and her mom trusts me. All of this did wonders for my self esteem. So before you start blaming a computer, maybe you need to open your eyes to the potential the Internet has at bringing lonely and "don't quite fit in" people together. ✌

I'm not sure how talking will help with mental issue, it is the content that they are exposed to. When talking they need something to talk about anyway, but on social media they can get more topics to talk about and talk to more people more easily. I slightly disagree with their sentiment. However I think people need to be available for those child if they needed physical care and someone to talk to for sure!

Take the red pill 🌹

this dude seems smart, he obviously makes great points. I'm glad Yang had him on!

As a teen addicted to my phone, I hate everything this woman says. Some of it is reasonable, but taking away our phones would be infuriating.

WHAT ARE WE DOING?!

Andrew/Zach, you mentioned the kids having daily meltdowns. Please consider having a nutrition-focused doctor on to talk about the state of our food and how it influences our our physical AND mental health. I recommend Dr. Sten Ekberg. You could start with a recent video, "3X Deadlier Than Cancer. & Most People Don't Know They Have It."

No Jean, we’ve not been ok for decades now. There are high schoolers born in America who’ve never had a country at peace. The Profit Motive demands that humans sacrifice sleep, sanity and their time.

Does that clothing company only carry navy blazers, pants and light blue button ups?

It was so long and not that interesting so I don't recall if they mentioned that the increase in cell phone use and social media also gave access to global community where people learned that others were also suffering and how trendy it is to take psych meds and how much that all influenced the mental health numbers increase since 2012.

Jean Twenge starts at 24:45

E ink screens=better healthier brains

Don't get it twisted, people like you Yang because you're an outsider. We the people DO NOT want a politician, didn't Trumps victory show you that Yang??. Don't become the DNC's dog with a leash. have a backbone! call the corruption in your own party. Stop defending them. (example- Joe Bidens "your not black" comment) If not, you will lose AGAIN and you know it in your heart Yang. I Prayer for you to build Courage to fight the system🙏.

As we need to put money into people's hands, wouldn't it be nice to put tools of health and inner balance into people's hands? :)

“Buy an alarm clock.” Duh!

It's "THE kids aren't alright" !!!

The issue with Parental Control is that kids will disable it.

Ok so i dont wanna be rude but. ...that jean twenge is a Man right? Or Am i crazy?

One cold shower a day; keeps the doctors away!! 💜

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I have been listening to all the podcasts ever since I discovered this channel. And the more I listen, the more disappointed I get. Not at Yang, nope, Yang didn’t get the democratic nomination because reasons. I am sure there is data somewhere that justifies Biden over Yang. So that shouldn’t have been a surprise. This is politics working as intended. So no I am not disappointed in Yang, or in the system. I am disappointed at myself. I am disappointed at the fact that I was fooled by the talking points of a salesman and I dared to hope that Yang was going to be different. But lesson learned... You really got me though. I though you were going to be the opposite of Trump. A calmed rational person, willing to sit down with others and try to understand their position even if it is not the same as yours. And maybe you are all of those things. The fact that you weren’t a career politician made believe that you were going to be different, that you had yet to be corrupted by the system. So I believed, and when you lost, I it sucked, but there is always the next election. So I believed. But you seem to lack the only quality that for some god forsaken reason I though you had... integrity. The politics is full of corruption and salesmen. Clowns with a silver tongue that promise to tackle the problems of their constituents, but their term comes and goes, and the only thing they achieved was to enrich themselves. Settling for the lesser of two evils is the reason Trump is today the president. Decades of settling for the least corrupt, least of a demagogue, least of a liar, etc. is the reason people do not trust the government and most certainly to not trust the government to have their best interest at heart. I don’t want the least corrupt candidate. The the candidate who isn’t corrupt. Do you know how big of a fool I feel like when I see you campaigning or making a sales pitch for the same corrupt bunch that have consistently failed their constituents and are the cause of the current negative sentiment towards the government. I cannot in good conscience vote for Biden. I don’t think he is capable of performing the duties of the president of the United State. But do not fear. I am going to send a message loud and clear. I would rather vote for a petty, vindictive, narcissistic, orange buffoon that settle for the lesser of two evils.

Just another karen