 Vivek Ramaswamy a 37 year old Indian American billionaire is running for president right now and he's kind of taking over the internet Yeah, I'm gonna be honest Andrew. He set the internet on fire. I'm talking about it. I'm seeing memes about Vivek Ramaswamy I'm seeing him rap Eminem. I'm seeing him like go on breakfast club with Charlemagne Yeah, guys, so again, we're gonna talk about Vivek and we're not supporting everything. He says we don't agree with everything We're not trying to be political. I'm not also experts on his policy But obviously he is has a presence on the internet. So we're and he's Asian Okay, even though he's running he's running for the Republican side. We still got to talk about him So please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot pot boys By the way guys not an endorsement at all just to give you guys an idea Andrew when I only had thousands of dollars in the Bank I still gave thousands of dollars to the Obama campaign. I was so pro Obama But it is very interesting, right like he's got to be easily Andrew in this current presidential race on either side the most Interesting character. I don't think he's gonna win. He's not gonna be Trump for the Republican You know primary nomination, but some people are thinking he might even be the VP if he becomes popular enough, right? Right, right, right. So let's get into it. David. I guess uh, what what does he remind a lot of people of okay? I would say it's really interesting because he's visibly Indian Nikki Haley's also running as an Indian But she's not visibly Indian like she kind of looks Italian So I think a lot of people remind He reminds a lot of people of Andrew game. Mm-hmm. Yeah, young tech bro coming in out of nowhere It doesn't have a lot of political experience at least, you know federally Entrepreneurs themselves has a lot of good ideas good talkers. Yeah, right other people said he remind he reminds them of Bobby Jindal mixed with Sarah Palin mixed with Trump himself because he kind of has that like business success story I don't think he's actually worth quite a billion dollars But with his stock options in a way then it's pretty high. Maybe it definitely sounds like a Harvard debate kid I mean he went to Harvard. He has a little bit of cheesiness, but he is he is really good at talking He actually feels like the captain of the high school debate team at a pretty good debate school that won the national Dude, is this like if Kevin G from mean girls went to Harvard and became a presidential candidate I'm not gonna lie when he was rapping lose yourself. I definitely got some Kevin G vibes He actually physically looks like this computer character Andrew called leisure suit Larry Interestingly enough same hairline everything. I mean guys out there all you short Asian kings out there Whether or not you agree with this policies whether or not you're Republican. I don't know he's five seven Is he representing for the short Kings? Yeah, man, so make sure you like subscribe turning your notifications in We got to get into our breakdown Andrew He is very much a millennial because he's a fan of internet conspiracies like he himself Andrew He's talked about was 9-11 an inside job brought that up. What else did he bring up? He brought up black rock as a cartel But then some people were saying that his company has a lot of institutional investment that made him a near billionaire from black rock Right, right. I mean he did get he is worth a lot due to his pharmaceutical company and I will say this pharmaceutical companies They don't have the greatest reputation amongst a lot of people in America. So but again, I don't know I mean, he says he's an open book. So we'll see yeah I mean, you know what's really interesting though when I look at it from an Asian perspective Andrew Some Asians want to hear him out because he's Asian and he's the youngest guy ever to run Yeah, I really think you're 37 is the youngest guy who would be VP or president in history Who doesn't know a v-vake? I know of you. I know like three v-vakes Personally and you're talking about the guy who owns the Sacramento. I know personally at least two or three v-vakes in person I guess what I'm saying is is it worthy to bring up though? Because you know how like I would say still obviously over 50% of Asians aren't more on the Democrat side Some people don't even want to bring his name up, but I'm saying how it is valid to talk about right? Valid I mean listen, especially from the Asian news sources on next shark, which we're gonna get into the comment section I can see that a lot of people were like, why are you bringing up the Republican candidate? Don't give him any more right, but it's like if you are covering Asian stuff You you can't be fully biased like let's we got to cover Asian people, you know And he is an Asian person doing something. Yeah, I think right now my general take on politics Just enter this election cycle real quick. Just that you know, just to you know, just get it all out there I would say that Republicans they do seem to be more pro nativist hetero normative Anglo-Saxon, maybe some people would say a little bit racist II right, but they might also be tougher on crime At least in a local sense, right? But they also might be more into war in the big picture profitability of the business of war And I think that is kind of the oxymoron of the vague Ramaswamy right now from what I know And I've only watched a few interviews and read some articles But he is very hard at least what he's saying he believes very strongly in like two genders He believes climate change is like essentially a hoax. These are all things that Gen X I mean Gen Z and Millennials do not agree with him. Oh, yo He wants to raise the voting age to 25 unless you do civil service. Yes So he's a young guy With kind of an old soul now He might just be saying those things just to get elected because he's still he's a young Indian guy So he still has to appeal to the major Republican base to even have a shot But I don't know you guys let me know if it's working. Yeah, I would say that Democrats in general Andrew, would you agree with me? Definitely more open-minded to more different identities that were traditionally marginalized or disenfranchised and they're okay with having those Identities or minorities in powerful positions and they're also okay with general overall system changes But sometimes it feels like the team can be so idealistic. It complicates their ability to run a tight ship Yeah, yeah, I mean you guys let us know in the comments down below How you guys swing between Democrat or Republican if you had to choose Yeah, I know neither party is perfect right now But listen, I remember it's funny Andrew 10 20 30 years ago This used to be a really taboo topic to bring up. Hey, are you a Democrat or Republican? But nowadays I feel like I'm just like yo everything's just up for everything is f'd up right now So there's this famous quote that's wrongly attributed to Winston Churchill It says if you're not a liberal at 25, you have no heart And if you are not a conservative at 35, you have no brain This is a very classic and or some people thought it was John Adams who said this in 1800 other guys People said this was this French guy regarding the French Revolution in 1850 either way this concept that the thing that I just said Has been around for about 200 years and it's still like kind of applies nowadays Yeah, I don't know man But you can also argue that in the American version of democracy both sides nowadays left or right has been Compromised by corporatocracy special interests and powerful lobbyists, right? That's true. Anyway, let's just get into the comments section This is from a Indian-American message board Andrew daisies and these are comments from Indians about v. Vaik Rama Swami Yeah, they were saying he sounds like the try-hard cousin at every family event man He definitely gives me the big debate kid energy. Oh Because I guess the debate kid archetype in High achieving Indian-American families is a very strong like you always got one of those at the family reunion Yeah, yeah, I think Kevin G from mean girls was a debate. Oh, he was in debate class. No, he was a math math class Mathly of course and we got into the big-ass argument on next shark Why are you guys giving this man more exposure? This guy said why can't we he's still a POC? Just because we don't he doesn't like think like most people on next shark, right? Well, because most people on next shark probably the majority Lean left and so a lot of people are like why give a Republican candidate any airtime Because but then that's that's assuming that next shark has an agenda a political agenda, right? I don't think they do I mean, but I could see I've seen both sides accuse them of like your pro left You're pro right and it's just like the environment. We're in right now If you do anything that's not like me then you're against me Right. Um, what do you think about the part Andrew in the first Republican debate where he said I'm a skinny guy with a funny last name a lot of people were criticizing him because he took that line from Obama But he didn't attribute it to Obama like when he opened up on the debate stage and then Chris Christie was like Oh, yeah, Obama said that and a lot of people are like I don't like how he didn't attribute that to Obama even though he took Obama's like bar interesting Yeah, I mean that is Obama's bar, but I mean, I don't know I think he actually sees himself as an Obama more than Andrew Yang to David if you made me think about like how he sees himself Vivek comes off in his interviews as a very very good Communicator. He's a very good debater. He knows how to deal with people who are coming at him He's a 5-7 Rich Indian guy who's made it, you know, obviously he's used to people getting at him. He's nice with the words He's nice with the words But a lot of people are starting to accuse him of being a scammer a con man He said he's a modern-day wolf of Wall Street. He basically are rich doing pump-and-dump schemes His first company was this and this share. He did this and this Basically, they were saying like for him to be that successful that young He had to do some kind of gray zone if he Tactics, yeah, I heard you know in the pharma world Andrew a lot of news that pump-and-dumps off like clinical trials and FDA approval and stuff Like that. I definitely think that if we peel back the layers more into Reuven and all that stuff I'm sure it would get messy to be honest if you made me bet money But I don't know somebody said how come he's also just regurgitating nonsense NPC talking points that Republicans want to hear Because Andrew they were saying as the election is getting closer and closer He's just starting to mirror like the bullet points that everybody has to hit to win, right? So sort of some of his uniqueness and like Non-institutionalized person-ness is going away Yeah, I I actually agree that he's probably hitting that stride where all his aides are like hey Vivek now you gotta start addressing, you know the gender stuff and the climate change stuff You have to start addressing that because that's actually what a lot of the Republican base cares about But his earlier interviews of months ago. He was just talking about like whatever like he had a lot of other ideas for like Geopolitics and stuff like that. But yeah now. Yeah, he's gonna have to pander He's Andrew some people were really mad about what he said about just giving Taiwan to China after America develops its own Semiconductor like Cycle right. Yeah, is that more of the Republican talking point to say that it's not their talking point But the truth is it's probably what a lot of them actually feel in their heart I feel like is that what Trump would say to I don't know I don't know. I don't really know what other people would say, but I just have a think Yeah, like I just think that he like didn't care and he just like said it And this is why a lot of young Asians maybe don't like Vivek at the same time is because He is basically still has to have the same talking points as a 70 year old Republican, right? Yeah, somebody's saying man America just has no idea how to elect a president anymore We have all horrible choices just the fact that everybody is talking about Vivek like he is the most interesting Just goes to show you where we are at. He has absolutely zero political experience. No, I think this this comment says a lot man I'm not gonna lie because like literally you don't know of another Democratic candidate that's even viable, right? What Pete Buttigieg? Obviously, it's gonna be Biden They're gonna run Biden again, and then obviously everybody's just talking about was it Trump DeSantis or Vivek, you know And it's us like Vivek is he seems like a breath of fresh air at least on the GOP side He seems like a guy who can capture some of the young Democrat Or moderates or moderates decided independent whatever exactly um and let's get into some Asian talk here Somebody said how come Vivek is considered Indian, but Nikki Haley is not considered Indian This is actually a really good question because Andrew This is my theory in America it pretty much just goes off how you look and Nikki Haley does not Look like an Indian person to most people. Yes, Nikki Haley is white passing her name is white passing Because she doesn't use her full Indian name, which is Nimera and I believe she married into a Christian family, right? Okay, so she's you although she definitely is of Indian background not taking that away photos of her in the Sorry, yeah, so real quick if you guys are confused at all. I had to look into this and apparently there's like three major looks in India One is like Dravidian one is Indo arian and one is ironic Indo so Vivek and like Aziz and sorry would more fall into the Dravidian probably Dravidian mixed with like Indo arian and then I guess like Nikki Haley if you made me guess is more like ironic Like in terms of maybe have a bloodline traced back to Iran sure sure right and people from Iran can look more white I don't know man. Um, Andrew How much do you think it is a big deal because Vivek doesn't try to really like play it up that Andrew He is actually a Hindu vegan who speaks Tamil fluently, but he does not like show that off. No, I don't think he he's trying to I don't think that's gonna get him a lot of votes, right because people will feel like it makes him too foreign. Yeah Um, I think that it's really interesting though Do you think at some point that the Republican base will be like what you ain't Christian? You're still Hindu you didn't convert like Bobby Jindal That's interesting. I think he's really gonna try to not talk about his religion But I think at the end of the day, he's ready for people to point it out He's gonna be ready for people to point out pretty much any diss they have on him Right, you're saying that he's ready if he's got to go head up with Trump and Trim Guzy who VVK him With religion do you subscribe to which God do you believe in? Oh, yeah, I don't know um But does it what do you think about this argument about like from the whole POC angle that like Republicans are against POC's. So why is he running as a Republican? And it's like this guy said does he not realize that not a single person in that room would ever care about him or be by his side If he wasn't a strong contender in the Republican field basically like if you weren't a strong batter for your squad They wouldn't inherently care about you at all. I Think that's just a lot of Asian Republicans or minority Republicans Have already dealt with that question. You know what I mean, right? You're saying like if you weren't a good soldier for that squad that squad wouldn't like you right because the Republicans have such a pro I guess like yeah, I think a lot of like POC Republicans Actually understand that or they've already decided where they fall and I'm okay with it Yeah, and I think honestly it comes down to priorities where they would be like, yeah, there might be that slight I didn't tarry in like slicing the pie chart But they'll be like but all these other pie slices are more important to me and my platform, right? Yeah, some people call them the Asians got our own new Ben Carson now Um, Andrew What do we think man? I mean we could go on forever. I'm like sifted through like thousands of comments My brain is like going crazy. This is not something I spend a lot of time thinking about politics like what's going on? I think he's a He is following in somewhat of the footsteps of what Andrew Yang did Andrew Yang kind of broke it open for a younger Techie guys who came out of nowhere to have to to kind of dominate the internet and dominate interviews and come up with good Ideas and I think Vivek is not going to win the GOP candidacy. Of course. He's way too far It'll probably be Trump, you know, but I think that It's interesting and it's engaging and I think it's engaging a lot of younger people a lot of moderates Young Republicans even some young Democrats are kind of interested to see what he says I think he Andrew he might have the be the only candidate where young people are tuning in to his interviews. Yeah, but here's the truth Here's the truth David for him to even have a shot He's still gonna have to say all the old Republican talking points that everybody says. Yeah, I don't even think he probably believes in him I feel like deep down. He's probably a contrarian capitalist Libertarian, but he's just like he wants to win. You know, yeah Yeah, so and do you think it is one of those situations where it's like even if he doesn't win He's gonna get way more rich way more famous and like cement his place in like American history because of this run Like regardless of even if let's say for example Trump picks Nikki Haley or somebody else to be his VP Yeah, I honestly think then Nikki Haley has a really good shot of becoming VP and getting chosen by Trump to do that because She's a woman and to I feel like she's gonna play better Even with Trump like she's gonna more buy into whatever Trump is doing while Vivek Seems sharp enough that he might like maybe talk too much in the meetings Yeah, right Mike subvert Trump right like Trump might feel like Vivek thinks he's smarter than him Which I think a lot of people would agree Vivek might be smarter than Trump, you know Just as far as a brain, you know, uh, so I think that he poses more of a threat to Trump in the cabinet, right? That's what I think I guess my last point is Andrew Indians really like politics Kamala Harris is half Indian Nikki Haley is Indian even though like we said it really look Indian Vivek Rishi Sunak is the Prime Minister of the UK right now I feel like we got to just say it as Chinese guys like Indians apparently are better leaders in the Western world All the CEOs that get hired, okay, and we did a whole video about this All right, you guys can look it up. Why there's so many Indian CEOs is a lot of reasons But regardless there are a ton of Indian CEOs There are a ton of Indian politicians and some of them are climbing up there in the globe So I think it's really really interesting guys, and I'm not it's you know, maybe just go watch our video again I think it's safe to say Andrew no matter which side wins. There might be some collagium in the White House At some point. I'm just saying man. Oh, right if Kamala's in there again. Yeah, I don't know man All right everybody let us know in the comments down below what you think about the current political race Are you just done with politics? Are you curious about Vivek Rama Swami? Do you support him? Do you not like him? Let us know in the comments down below because he is a full Indian guy with an Indian name with the Indian wife He speaks Tamil. He's a vegan. He's Hindu He's Indian. Yo, man, let us know what you think in the comment section below until next time we to hop out boys We out peace