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Take a seat. We have got a great show
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is building the wall, we learned where
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Beyonce got her groove, and Donald
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Trump has found a spooky way to avoid
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paying taxes. Plus, the Secretary of Transportation,
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Pete Buds himself is joining us on the show
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tonight, which means I'm getting a bunch of my parking tickets
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cancer. So figous,
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people, let's stup into today's headlines.
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All right, let's do it. Let's do
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it. Let's get into it. Oh, before we get into the big
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stories, let's catch up on a few other
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things that are going on. First of all, congratulations
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to someone out there for winning one point
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three billion dollars in
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the megamillions Loto you
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boo boo. I don't know what that sound was. It's
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the biggest lottery pay out ever to a
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single winner. And
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it's wild to me that we just gave a billion dollars
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to someone who has proven that they're bad with money.
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Why are you playing the lottery? It's
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a terrible investment unless you win. Now,
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because Illinois has a law allowing lottery
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winners to remain anonymous, we might never know who
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won this money, but I will say this, if your next
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door neighbor comes to your cook out in a private jet,
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it's probably done. Or
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Kaylie Jenna, you never know. Meanwhile, in
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some shocking entertainment news, Beyonce
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isn't perfect. Yeah, there's
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the part where the tomatoes hit me. I know, I know well
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because this morning, um Queen Bee said
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that she would remove the words spas
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from one of her new songs because she didn't
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realize that it was ablest. And
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if you're having a bit of deja vu, it's because this
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comes just a few weeks later, Right, a few
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weeks after Lizzo had to come out and
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say the same thing. She had to cut the same word from a song,
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which honestly must be so exciting
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for Lizzo, Right, Yeah, She's probably
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like, oh, my god, Beyonce sampled
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my standard. It's
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amazing. We should do you a collab, or like an no tap
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apology, we should do this. Oh
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and there's another pop star in trouble. This is a crazy
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story. Shakira could be facing
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eight years in prison for
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tax fraud. Yeah. The Spanish
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government says that she dodged seventeen
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million dollars in taxas by pretending
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to live in the Bahamas when her real
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residence was in Barcelona, Bahamas,
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Barcelona. So
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yeah, it turns out you cannot claim your
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residence as whenever, wherever. That doesn't
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work. A good
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lesson for everybody here and
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in labor news. In labor news,
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this is one of the weirdest stories ever. A Chick fil
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A in North Carolina got into trouble
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for asking for volunteers to
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work the drive through window. Right. And
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the reason it was volunteers is because instead of paying the
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workers, the restaurants said they would give them
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five free meals for every
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one hour shift that
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they worked. Yeah, and
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I will say it, really, they'll show you how good Chick fil
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A is because all of you paused for a second when I said
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this before getting angry. You're like, wait, would
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I know? No,
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doesn't include the waffle fright, No, pooh
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pooh. So
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that's what's going on, a bunch of random things. But anyway, let's
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move on to some of the biggest news stories of
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the day, starting with an update on Joe
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Biden, the President, whose approval rating
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is going through its own recession. As you all
4:13
know, the President had COVID
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and then recovered from it last week, but then
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after testing negative, the White House doctor is
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reporting that Biden is now testing positive
4:23
again with what they call a rebound
4:25
infection. It's definitely not the
4:27
rebound Biden was hoping for. You know, come
4:30
on, Jago and President the pomber rebounds,
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you know what I mean, there's no joke mcmar so.
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Anyway, the President is back in isolation again,
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but the White House says don't worry, he's feeling fine
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and he will be working the entire time. Although
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many of his supporters might not love
4:46
his new project, President Biden says
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work can resume on former President Trunk's
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border wall. The White House wants four
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gaps in the fence to be filled in near you, Arizona.
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It's all was one of the busiest crossings for undocumented
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Ima Grant. It's another reversal of policy
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for the president who vowed not to add
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to his predecessor's efforts in any
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way on that project. There will not be
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another foot of wall constructed
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on my administration. That's right,
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there will be many feet of wall. Ha ha,
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gotcha. But
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yes, it looks like Joe Biden is
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completing Donald Trump's unfinished
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business. So if
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I was Mike Pence right now, I'd be nervous
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as hell. I'd
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be watching out. You
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know, you don't how it's enough. What I know about the story
5:40
is how Fox doesn't know what to do with these
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kinds of stories, right because
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they want the wall, but they also hate Joe
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Biden. You know, like, did you see
5:49
what Biden is doing? He
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wasn't He was against the wall, but now he's building it.
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I guess we have to vote for him. How does this work? But
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you do have to admit it is confusing, right
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because Biden, he spent what four years
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railing against the wall. He was like, this wall is fascist,
6:04
is racist, and it's un American, and
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now we're gonna have it. Patches up for no time, folks, We're gonna
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fix up this wall. We're
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gonna fix it all up now, Okay. The reason
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the reason the Biden administration gave for building Trump's
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wall in these sections of Arizona is
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because they're saying it's dangerous
6:20
for migrants to cross the river there,
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right, and so they want to put up a wall to
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stop the people from crossing, which
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you have to admit is a little weird because
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now they're saying that walls
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do stop people from crossing.
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Yeah, but they're only doing it here because
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they want to make it safer, right, because
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the river is super dangerous, so they want people
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to try a cross here other parts, I guess,
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although if you really wanted to make crossing a river safer,
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then why wouldn't you just build a bridge? It's
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the batting the wall. None of them makes
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sense. They none
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of them makes sense, you
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know why? Or why? Because
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it's bullshit, that's why. Yeah,
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it doesn't make sense. And look, I can't say it
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for certain, but it seems like the only
7:10
reason they're building a wall in these sections
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is because these sections could affect Democratic
7:15
Senator Mark Kelly, who's running for
7:17
re election in Arizona, and he's been
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pushing for these sections to be filled. Right
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when you see it through that lens, it makes a lot more sense.
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Migrants sneaking into Arizona, that's
7:27
whatever, but Republicans sneaking into the Senate. You gotta shut
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that ship down. And
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either way, either
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way, I hope because
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he's one of those things that can bring America together. You
7:39
know, this is one of those moments where people can unite
7:42
because when you think about a Trump and Biden have
7:44
more in common than we think. They
7:46
both want the wall filled in, they
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both have shady sons, and they both
7:51
have close companions who require annual radise
7:53
shots. It's a beautiful, beautiful
7:56
things to see Briton
7:59
and Trump. Oh.
8:03
Speaking of Trump, the
8:07
Tangerine Dream is back in the news. We
8:10
yet another scandal, because this is one
8:12
of the wildest things ever because remember how his
8:14
wife, Ivana passed away, right,
8:16
really sad stories passed away. Well, it
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turns out the Donald may
8:20
have managed to turn even that into
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a scam. Ivanna Trump, the
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first wife of President Trump, has been laid
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to rest in an unusual location near
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the first hole at President Trump's golf
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club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
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The reason is unclear, but According
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to Insider, operating a cemetery
8:40
on the golf course will allow President Trump
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to avoid paying taxes on the land. Wow
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wow, wow wow
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wow. A
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lot of people say I'll pay taxes
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over my dead body. Trump means it to
9:00
someone else's body. And
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even for him, this feels like a step too far. I don't care
9:04
what anyone says like I. I wouldn't
9:06
even laugh at that as a joke. If someone said to me Donald
9:08
Trump's ex wife died, He's probably gonna bury her
9:10
on his golf course to save on taxes, I'll be
9:12
like, Yo, that's not cool, man, that's not cool. But
9:15
it turns out Trump was like, wait, wait, say more,
9:17
say more. I'm gonna send this to
9:19
my account and keep going. But
9:24
this lady shows you it's
9:26
how strange the tax system can be.
9:29
Like, all this tax break does is insensivize
9:31
you to be a widow who
9:34
came up with this. It always feels like the law was
9:36
written by a serial killer. It's just like, there should
9:38
be a law that if you bury
9:40
a body in your yard, you don't have to
9:42
pay taxes anymore. I
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was like, yeah, the the senator whose interns
9:47
keep disappearing makes a good point. The motion passes. Good
9:49
point, good point, it's ridiculous.
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All right, that's it for the headlines. But to
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pull we go to a break. It's time to check in on the weather. Foc
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off without very own dassi light like everybody
10:02
why you want it? Could see? So
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what's happening? What's happening? The weather calmed
10:08
down? What's the what's the weather looking like? Oh man,
10:10
it is all blue skies and sunshine.
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For whoever won the one point three billion
10:16
jackpot, I'll tell you that. God,
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I I wonder who. I
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wonder who she is. I
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mean, it could be any of us, any of us in this
10:28
room right now. One might even wonder
10:30
why she came to work today, right
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are you? Are you saying you won the lottery?
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Look, I'm saying the winner has chosen
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to be anonymous. You know, in many
10:42
ways they're building a wall
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between them and us knowing.
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But whoever she is, she
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probably has enough money to buy her boss a new car.
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Wait wait, wait,
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so you did want you
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won the lottery? As saying, I don't know? I
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don't know, did I? Trevor? Who knows?
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Anyway? By the way, that Avana story
11:04
is so crazy being laid
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to rest on his golf course. God,
11:09
I feel for all of Trump's wives, and even
11:11
in the afterlife, they still have to
11:14
deal with his balls coming at them.
11:24
I love as God let her rest.
11:26
Although I will say tax moves like this
11:28
are very very common among the ultra
11:31
wealthy, something I've been reading up on recently.
11:33
For no particular reason. I bought
11:35
an island. So anyway,
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so you're saying that you did win the lost what's coming on here? Did
11:41
you? That's Trevor, that's
11:43
ridiculous. Although I
11:45
will say I'm feeling very generous
11:47
tonight, which is why I have a special announcement
11:50
for the audience. Everyone
11:52
in this audience, I am sending all
11:55
of your kids to college,
11:58
Yes, all
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of them, all
12:04
of them, even the underachievers,
12:06
all of them. I'm talking room board,
12:09
iPads, the good drugs, all
12:11
of it. Because
12:15
and maybe you saw this coming, I'm
12:17
just gonna go ahead and say it. I have the winning ticket here.
12:19
It is right here, right here. Can we get can
12:21
we get a close up? That
12:24
is it? No?
12:29
No, don't don't care
12:31
for that day. That's that's not that's
12:33
not a real ticket. That is it? That is the real ticket,
12:36
Trevor, it is absolutely a d percent
12:38
real. You can tell because it says not fake. It
12:40
is definitely real. And you're not going to blow
12:42
this for me, So back me up here blowing
12:45
anything. The winner is in someone
12:47
in Illinois. That's Look,
12:50
someone has to come forward. No
12:52
one has come forward yet, so there's a window of opportunity.
12:55
Look, I can cut you in on this if you
12:57
just act cool. I'm not. I'm
13:00
in. There's no acting cool. I think that no one's going to be
13:02
fooled by that. Oh my god, come on, really, you're going to do
13:04
this to me, You're gonna do this to then
13:06
their children. Okay,
13:10
fine, guess what, audience. None of
13:12
your kids are going to college?
13:15
Yeah, none of them
13:17
because of this man right here.
13:20
This man. Don't be fooled by
13:22
these dimples. He does not believe
13:25
in dreams. He's a dream rusher.
13:27
That makes no sense. You're the one who promised the
13:29
thing. By the way, Trevor, you are not invited
13:32
to my island. You didn't actually buy
13:34
an island. I actually did. It's amazing
13:36
what you can buy with a credit card. Oh my god, I'm so
13:40
so much debt. I'm
13:43
gonna have to see if Chick fil A is still hiring volunteers.
13:46
All right, Disney like everybody,
13:50
and you put yourself in the smith. Don't go away because
13:52
off of the break would Junior will tell us where Drake
13:55
and Beyonce go all of the idea.
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Welcome back from the day show. You know, Black
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Street doesn't just have to be for
14:24
February. It can be for normal sized
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months too, So let's go to Royal
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Jr. For another episode of CPE Time.
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M Hello,
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welcome to see Pee Time, the only
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show that's from the culture. Today,
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we'll be discussing house music. When
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I say house music, I'm not talking about all those weird
14:55
sounds that you hear in your home, the
14:57
floor creaking, the radiator playing
14:59
a beat at three in the morning, or when you're washing
15:01
machine beats like crazy to let you know it's done
15:04
with the load. It's right,
15:06
ladies, Daddy's got clean boxes
15:08
on deck. I'm
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talking about the genre of fast paced,
15:14
beat, heavy dance music that's kept the molly
15:16
industry alive for forty years. That's
15:19
the stuff music rolling because
15:22
you are too. House
15:24
music is all the rage these days, from
15:27
Drake and Beyonce to Swedish
15:29
house mafia to Mickey Mouse's
15:31
cocade cousin who lives in the bad part of Epcot.
15:34
But would you believe that this genre has
15:36
its origins in the black community?
15:39
Of course you should cep time.
15:42
You never heard me say, surprise, it's
15:44
Caucasians. So yes,
15:47
these modern artists stand on the shoulders of house
15:49
music, black and gay founders. So let's
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talk about some of them, like Francis
15:53
Nichols, a k a. Frankie Knuckles.
15:56
Frankie started as a d J in New York
15:58
at a time for rocious backlash
16:01
against disco music, so
16:03
bad that in nineteen seventy nine, a crowd gathered
16:06
at Chicago's Comiskey Park to
16:08
burn the records of artists and what
16:10
was known as Disco Demolition
16:13
Night. Even watching the footage
16:16
today, it's still a shocking sight a
16:18
full baseball stadium.
16:21
By the way, here's a tip. If you ever
16:23
had a mass burning, you're
16:25
probably on the wrong side. No
16:28
one has ever said, well that mass
16:30
burning was a success. Now
16:32
all the orphans are safe. Anyway,
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Disco was dead, but people still
16:38
wanted to get down in the club, and
16:40
so Frankie Nuckles started experimenting with
16:42
the new style of dance music at his home
16:44
club in Chicago, The Warehouse.
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That's where house music gets its name, not
16:49
as some people think, from Doctor House, although
16:53
Doctor House does love popping peels.
16:56
With this partner, Larry Levan Frankie
16:59
Knuckles helped the house music scene
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and the careers of many superstar DJs
17:04
like Ron Hardy, who created
17:06
a technique of extending songs indefinitely,
17:09
bringing the crowd to a fever pitch. It
17:12
was so entrancing that one night people
17:14
continued to dance at his club even
17:16
after a speaker caught on fire.
17:20
You know a song is good when people keep dancing
17:22
during the fire. That does
17:24
not happen with Cotton Eye Joe. When
17:27
I hear that song, I try to start a fire just
17:29
so I can get away. Where did
17:31
you come from? Where did you go? Out out
17:34
this burning house? And
17:36
finally, one of the most iconic
17:39
voices of house music, the Queen
17:41
of club Land, Martha Wash.
17:44
Martha was half of the famous duo The Weather
17:46
Girls, who created some of the most iconic
17:48
music of the eighties, including It's
17:51
Raining Men. Unfortunately,
17:53
due to climate change, It's Raining Men far harder
17:56
and longer than ever before Hallelujah.
18:00
After the Weather Girls broke up, Martha
18:02
Wash ended up with Sea and See Music Factory,
18:05
where she sang the unforgettable hook
18:08
every instantly
18:11
recognizable. But controversy
18:13
arrived with the music video when the group cast
18:16
a French model to lip
18:18
Saint Martha's lyrics, and
18:20
she didn't find out until she saw the video.
18:23
Finding out bad news is even worse when it happens
18:26
on television. You never want the worst
18:28
moment of your life followed by a Pine Saw
18:30
commercial. Not only that,
18:33
Sea and See Music Factory didn't even
18:35
credit her for the vocal yet
18:37
another employee being mistreated
18:40
by a factory. But Martha
18:42
Washed pushed back and south Sea and Sea
18:44
Music Factory for proper credit. She won
18:47
the case and that led to federal legislation
18:49
making vocal credits mandatory and music
18:52
That's Right. Even her lawsuits
18:54
were hits. So whenever you see
18:57
an album that says something like vocals
18:59
by Little pop Vert hashtag
19:01
the Lean God, you can thank
19:03
Martha Wash for whatever the hell
19:05
that meant. That wraps up our
19:07
time with house music. If you like that
19:10
sort of thing, which personally I do not.
19:13
Maybe I'm old school. But that type of music is undignified.
19:16
Shaking my hips like a heathen. Thank
19:18
you. There's no commandment about
19:20
dropping it low. That movie
19:22
Dirty Dancing was about two people rubbing crotches
19:25
in public places. It's a terrible
19:28
wouldn't it? Roy? Is
19:32
that you? God? I
19:35
knew you were a black woman. No,
19:38
it's me, Martha Wash. What's this I
19:40
hear about you not liking dance music? Martha?
19:43
I cannot abide by dance music,
19:46
not a single note. I'm a man of culture.
19:49
I shop me it once a decade and that's it. Nonsense.
19:53
Everyone can dance. Everyone
19:55
must dance. Hit a studio hit
19:58
from O God.
20:03
Oh, come on God, waken,
20:08
slow down a little bit. You look like
20:10
your box in the Kangaroo.
20:15
Help with Marther. You put
20:17
the devil of it. He's loving it. He's
20:20
hips of Satan's Kingdom. Now, huh,
20:23
that's all the time we have to see for your time, I've
20:26
been Royal Junior. I remember well
20:28
for the culture. Oh lord, it's
20:30
raining me. I mean, come on, Danny's
20:37
thank you so much? Cold right with Julie? All right, say too, because
20:39
when we come back, Secretary Pete, who the jack looks
20:41
joining all right here on the show. Go on, Welcome
20:59
back to the Heady show. Might get to like
21:01
serves as Transportation Secretary
21:03
in the Biden administration. He's here to talk
21:05
about infrastructure and so much more.
21:07
Please welcome Secretary Pete. Secretary
21:26
Pete Buddha Jes, Welcome back to the
21:28
Daily Show. It's it's weird though, because I've known you
21:30
for so long as Maya Pete. Everyone knows you as Maya Pete.
21:32
It's always answered Pete. You will, okay,
21:35
so you won't get offended. You won't be like no, it's secretary
21:37
may have Pete now no, okay,
21:40
okay, Well, congratulations on the new job. We haven't
21:42
seen you since you've gotten it. You you know, it's been it's
21:44
been a lively period for you to be in this position. Let's
21:46
start with the most important question. Maybe there
21:48
was a one point two trillion
21:50
dollar infrastructure build that was possible, Yes, if
21:52
my memory shows me correct, So that's taxpayer money
21:55
and everyone paid for that infrastructure. You're the person
21:57
who are doing a lot of infrastructure. So where's our money,
21:59
Pete? What's what are you doing with the money?
22:02
What's going great? Last week we announced a
22:04
use of part of the money in order to make more transit
22:07
stations accessible. A couple of weeks before
22:09
that, we put out the first wave of airport
22:11
terminal grants were improved, proving eighty four
22:14
airport terminals around the country. This morning, I was in
22:16
New Jersey. There's a bridge there, the Portal
22:18
North Bridge. Alright, for a couple of folks here recognize
22:21
it. This bridge.
22:24
It's it's the finest construction
22:26
engineering from the Roosevelt administration, the
22:29
Teddy Roosevelt administration. It
22:31
is a hundred eleven years old, and when
22:34
they swing it back into place sometimes it
22:36
works so poorly that workers have to take sledge
22:39
hammers in order to get the rails to align.
22:42
We're rebuilding the bridge completely. We broke
22:44
ground on it this morning with the Governor, and it's just one
22:46
of a lot of more things we're doing with
22:48
so yeah, well, I mean, it's everything that that
22:50
we've wanted for a long time in American
22:53
infrastructure. After years and years, years
22:55
and years of talk. The last president
22:57
talked a good game about this. Now we are actually getting
22:59
at
23:02
getting done. How are you getting it done? Right? It's
23:05
it's interesting that you say that this is. This is something I find
23:08
particularly strange in American
23:10
politics. Everybody likes infrastructure,
23:13
However, it seems like people
23:15
are more or less likely
23:17
to like it depending on who is building the infrastructure.
23:20
So to your point, Trump said from the visa like I want to improve
23:22
America's infrastructure. People like this is great, you
23:24
know, And then when Biden says it feels like a lot of Republicans have said,
23:26
oh no, no, we don't. We don't like it. We don't like where you're
23:29
spending the money, how you're spending the money. When
23:31
you go to these actual communities, because that's what infrastructure
23:34
affects, actual communities, do
23:36
you find that it is still less partisan or when
23:38
you get on the ground, does it have more of a
23:40
like a just an American feel to it? In
23:42
the communities, it's incredibly
23:45
bipartisan. I'm in red states, Blue states,
23:47
purple states. People don't care about the
23:49
party of the presidents. They want to get the job done. I
23:51
mean I was. I was in one of the reddest
23:54
parts of Indiana, southern Indiana, where
23:56
we're upgrading a port uh in a tiny
23:58
community called Tel City, about seven thousand
24:00
people in that in that whole community
24:03
and the port is on the river. It's actually just a
24:05
crane on a barge. Basically, we're
24:08
upgrading that. We went there to celebrate what
24:10
that's going to do to help him get pig iron that comes in
24:12
on barges on the on the river. And
24:15
not a single person asked me about Republican Democrats
24:17
stuff. Among the residents there, they were just excited.
24:20
Now. There were a lot of people on Capitol
24:22
Hill who voted no, although I will say
24:24
quite a few Republicans came over and voted with Democrats
24:27
to get this done. What I will also say is a lot
24:29
of the ones who voted against it have not hesitated
24:31
to write us letters about how they'd now like
24:34
that funding to go to their districts, which I take
24:36
to be in
24:39
and you know we're gonna do this without regard to politics.
24:42
I just consider it in policy world,
24:45
i'd call it the sincerest form of flattery. When
24:47
they vote against your stuff and then they do
24:50
the stuff that they voted against. It is an interesting
24:52
position to be in because you know, as a secretary,
24:55
in many ways, you have to remove the
24:57
politics from your job, even though you offer
25:00
filling the mandate of a person who is inherently
25:02
political. You're going around the country, you're
25:04
improving the worlds, you're trying to change how America
25:06
operates. One of the biggest things we've seen recently
25:09
sent a Joe Mansion jumping on board and saying, okay,
25:11
let's get some of this money going for what is it now,
25:13
the Inflation Inflation
25:16
Reduction Act. Great um, And
25:19
it seems like there's a lot of tension around E vs.
25:21
Electric vehicles. I've
25:23
seen some of your clips online. They get cut up, people
25:26
splice it. They make it seem like you're saying what you're not
25:28
saying. I won't cut you
25:30
up, so I but I would would like to know why
25:33
is the electric vehicle a better option for Americans?
25:35
If if if there are people who are saying, well, this is our
25:38
taxes, why don't we just use the taxes for other purposes?
25:40
Why forced that money to go into the world of electric cars?
25:42
Right? So, first of all, it's a
25:44
very important part of how we fight climate change because
25:47
transportation is the biggest sector
25:49
in our economy that's emitting these grainhouse
25:51
gases. But also it's better for drivers.
25:53
You spend less money on gas even with normal
25:56
gas prices. There would be a savings to having
25:58
an electric vehicle. Uh, and there's
26:00
less maintenance, so it's a win win win.
26:02
Plus, this is where the automotive industry
26:04
is going anyway globally, so it's really important
26:07
to make sure that we're competing, that
26:09
our competitiveness is such that this is a made
26:11
in America electric vehicle revolution.
26:14
Now it's more ideological
26:17
than it should be on Capitol Hill. But again,
26:19
you know, the the same constituents
26:21
who who are watching this this
26:24
back and forth on on Capitol Hill, they're
26:26
also seeing the Super Bowl ads. They know what an
26:28
evy actually costs, and hopefully
26:31
they're seeing that we're about to bring that cost lower
26:34
through the Inflation Reduction Act. So some of the same
26:36
politicians who were beating us up about
26:38
e vs, saying they're too expensive,
26:40
they have a chance coming up to vote to
26:42
make them cheaper. We'll see what they do. When
26:45
you look at the incredument America in the
26:47
structor look at the cause, and look at the trains, I'm
26:51
I'm constantly amazed at how just
26:54
in the American idea, trains
26:57
seem to be a completely alien concept.
26:59
You know, away when you travel to Europe you
27:02
see what they're doing with the trains. I mean, Japan was one of the most
27:04
amazing experiences I've ever had. You just get anywhere
27:06
on a train almost instantly. And in
27:08
America, people almost you
27:10
know, make it seem like it's Unamerican to not
27:13
drive a car and prefer a train. I
27:15
know, when Obama came into power, he said we should get high
27:17
speed rail going. That was completely thrown out.
27:21
You are the Transportation and secretary. Are
27:23
you focusing on that is the world where we will get like super
27:25
fast trains to take people across the country, to rule
27:27
parts of the country, like will revitalize the country.
27:29
Yeah, and we're taking the first steps in that direction
27:32
right now. Look, I thought I was the
27:34
biggest trained person I know, but in this administration,
27:37
I'm always gonna be second place after the President when
27:39
it comes to enthusiasm for passenger
27:41
rail. Look, frankly, the first order of
27:43
business is to take care of what we've got. We've got a huge
27:45
backlog because there's there's
27:47
been a lot of resistance to investing in our rail networks,
27:50
but also resistance coming from
27:52
you know, some of its ideological, so it's cultural.
27:54
But the way I see it is why
27:56
shouldn't Americans have the best rail
27:59
in the world if we're a competitive country and
28:01
we believe that we ought to be the best in everything. You
28:03
know, you mentioned that the standard that the Japanese,
28:06
I mean, never mind just the Japanese standard.
28:08
If you're in Italy or Morocco or
28:11
Turkey, you can routinely expect
28:13
faster rail service than in the US. We can
28:15
and must change that. And it begins with what we're
28:17
doing with this because sometimes I'll be driving, let's
28:19
I'll be driving from like the airport, and we're gonna talk about
28:22
airports as well, driving from the airport coming
28:24
into New York City, and then I'll be driving
28:26
past people in a train and
28:29
I see them looking at the cause going. But
28:32
we're in a train and I'm
28:34
in the traffic like you guys are in a train,
28:36
they should be going faster than me. Right. The logic
28:39
that is how that generally should work. It should be why
28:41
isn't it going that? What's what's going wrong? Because
28:43
you get what you pay for, and this country,
28:46
for basically as long as you and I have been alive,
28:48
has been under investing in rail.
28:51
And when you do that, there's a rail cost
28:53
to that. And by the way, it's a win when we do, because
28:55
if you do have great rail, that's
28:58
even good for the people who are in the cars because
29:00
there's less congestion on exactly the same reason. We're
29:02
investing in transit right now. It makes all the sense
29:04
in the world. It always did, but that much more
29:06
now that we're facing this climate challenge. You're not just investing
29:08
in transit. They're investing in the roads themselves.
29:11
I know you made headlines when and correct
29:13
me if I paraphrase you incorrected, But I mean you basically
29:15
said that America's roads are racist, right,
29:19
exactly what I say? Exactly no no, no,
29:21
no no, But because I understand
29:23
what you're saying, but say, but the point is, look,
29:25
there are many places in the US
29:28
where a road or a
29:30
railroad was used to divide
29:33
or segregate, or even remove a neighborhood.
29:35
Typically I complete. I mean,
29:37
the very fact that we have the phrase wrong side
29:40
of the tracks in American English language
29:42
tells you something about how infrastructure,
29:44
which is supposed to connect can also be
29:46
used to divide, often on racial lines.
29:49
And we've got to face and we can do something. What
29:52
can you do about that. Are you going
29:54
to Are you gonna rip up the
29:56
roads? And this is what people say, They say Pee is
29:58
coming, He's going to rip up the high ways. There's
30:00
gonna be normal highways anymore. Everyone's gonna normal
30:03
highways. What are you actually planning to do to
30:06
try and write many of those wrongs? So what we're
30:08
doing is now that we're making the biggest investment
30:10
in highways and roads since the Eisenhower
30:12
administration, we're going to get it right. And that includes
30:15
recognizing that infrastructure is supposed
30:17
to connect, not divide. Some places,
30:20
that might mean that you've got a road
30:22
that's that's cutting up a neighborhood, it needs to
30:24
go underground and then you can put a cap over, and then
30:26
you can put a park in that cap and create value
30:28
in the whole neighborhood. Sometimes it doesn't have to
30:30
be as elaborate and expensive as that. Maybe
30:33
it's creating a transit link or pedestrian
30:35
bridge. It's going to look different in every community.
30:38
But the point is every community is
30:40
coming to us with ideas about
30:42
how to do this, and and the thing is everybody
30:44
wins when we do this. Nobody's worse off
30:47
when we reconnect areas that have been
30:49
separated or segregated. And I don't know why
30:51
anybody would be against us doing that when the
30:53
whole point of transportation is to
30:55
connect, not to divide. I
30:58
think the reason why of people would be against it is although
31:00
suff explani story, you won't have people
31:02
want to be here, they want other people to be there.
31:05
The airports is something I definitely want to talk
31:07
to you about this. This is a weird situation. How know you tweeted
31:09
about it and no sentence. Elizabeth
31:11
Warren came out saying like, this is this is what we should do. We should
31:13
find the airlines. Anyone
31:15
who's flown knows how difficult
31:18
it can be. The airline can almost do anything
31:20
to you with impunity. They can cancel your flight.
31:22
They can delay your flight ten times and then cancel
31:25
it. Then they'll tell you we won't give you the money, we'll give
31:27
you a credit, and then your credit maybe used, maybe
31:29
not be used. So this is important, A
31:31
little bit of news you can use. If
31:33
they cancel your flight, you are entitled
31:35
to a cash refund, and we enforce that
31:38
rule. A lot of people don't know that. So you get canceled,
31:41
you call the airline. They're like, well, we'll give
31:43
you a two thousand miles. How's that sound? And that might
31:45
sound good. That's worth about twenty
31:47
bucks. And you are entitled
31:50
to potentially hundreds of dollars in refunds.
31:52
But I'm entitled, But how do I actually get that? Like?
31:54
Do I send you you'll like, do something? How
31:57
do we make this people getting
31:59
their flights about something they don't wear any I don't how do you
32:01
know orcement? Yea, So first
32:04
of all, when you ask them to give you refund, they have to do it.
32:06
But if they don't, come to us. We have
32:08
an entire Office of Aviation Consumer Protection.
32:11
We enforced as a matter of fact, and we're doing it. It wasn't
32:13
just this summer thing. Last year we actually
32:15
issued the biggest fine in the history of the program
32:17
because an airline was failing to promptly
32:20
refund people. We got a website. You go to the DT website
32:22
and look up more about your rights as an air consumer.
32:25
But know your rights because we have your back. I
32:27
like that. Okay, send Pete. That's
32:29
the people should say. Seen Pete um lost
32:32
not least not least you
32:35
know mitchums are coming up people, are
32:38
you know American people are looking at four
32:40
already? It was interesting because a
32:42
new New Hampshire poll came out recently
32:45
which had you slightly
32:48
edging President Biden in the race
32:51
for four. Now, I know you
32:53
are secretary, so you can't say anything about that. It's
32:55
political and you're not obviously your boss. You're not gonna
32:57
say anything bad and you won't. But but and
32:59
if I said to you, are you gonna run? Knowing
33:01
if I say are you gonna run, you wouldn't say you're gonna run or
33:03
what it? But I just want to know when you see a poll like that doesn't
33:06
give you a little more swag, And meetings with the president
33:08
doesn't give you like a little like if he says something
33:10
to him, are you are you ever? Like You're Joe? Like?
33:12
Is ever like a book? If
33:16
I want to look good in front of my boss, the
33:18
best thing I can do is have just
33:20
broken ground on a major project like we did today
33:23
in New Jersey. That's gonna be my focus because that's
33:25
my job. So slick, so
33:27
good, want to do. Thank you so much for joking
33:29
on the show. Game. Keep pulling roll off
33:32
the trains, Kick boota jags. Everybody,
33:34
We're gonna take a quick break over the right back after
33:36
this. Thank you, Vern Muck so happy
33:39
you back again. Thank you. Well,
33:47
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