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Speaker 1: you tonight. Joe Biden is building the wall, we learned
Speaker 1: where Beyonce got her groove, and Donald Trump has found
Speaker 1: a spooky way to avoid paying taxes. Plus, the Secretary
Speaker 1: of Transportation, Pete Buds himself is joining us on the
Speaker 1: show tonight, which means I'm getting a bunch of my
Speaker 1: parking tickets cancer. So figous, people, let's stup into today's headlines.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's get
Speaker 1: into it. Oh, before we get into the big stories,
Speaker 1: let's catch up on a few other things that are
Speaker 1: going on. First of all, congratulations to someone out there
Speaker 1: for winning one point three billion dollars in the megamillions
Speaker 1: Loto you boo boo. I don't know what that sound was.
Speaker 1: It's the biggest lottery pay out ever to a single winner.
Speaker 1: And it's wild to me that we just gave a
Speaker 1: billion dollars to someone who has proven that they're bad
Speaker 1: with money. Why are you playing the lottery? It's a
Speaker 1: terrible investment unless you win. Now, because Illinois has a
Speaker 1: law allowing lottery winners to remain anonymous, we might never
Speaker 1: know who won this money, but I will say this,
Speaker 1: if your next door neighbor comes to your cook out
Speaker 1: in a private jet, it's probably done. Or Kaylie Jenna,
Speaker 1: you never know. Meanwhile, in some shocking entertainment news, Beyonce
Speaker 1: isn't perfect. Yeah, there's the part where the tomatoes hit me.
Speaker 1: I know, I know well because this morning, um Queen
Speaker 1: Bee said that she would remove the words spas from
Speaker 1: one of her new songs because she didn't realize that
Speaker 1: it was ablest. And if you're having a bit of
Speaker 1: deja vu, it's because this comes just a few weeks later, Right,
Speaker 1: a few weeks after Lizzo had to come out and
Speaker 1: say the same thing. She had to cut the same
Speaker 1: word from a song, which honestly must be so exciting
Speaker 1: for Lizzo, Right, Yeah, She's probably like, oh, my god,
Speaker 1: Beyonce sampled my standard. It's amazing. We should do you
Speaker 1: a collab, or like an no tap apology, we should
Speaker 1: do this. Oh and there's another pop star in trouble.
Speaker 1: This is a crazy story. Shakira could be facing eight
Speaker 1: years in prison for tax fraud. Yeah. The Spanish government
Speaker 1: says that she dodged seventeen million dollars in taxas by
Speaker 1: pretending to live in the Bahamas when her real residence
Speaker 1: was in Barcelona, Bahamas, Barcelona. So yeah, it turns out
Speaker 1: you cannot claim your residence as whenever, wherever. That doesn't work.
Speaker 1: A good lesson for everybody here and in labor news.
Speaker 1: In labor news, this is one of the weirdest stories ever.
Speaker 1: A Chick fil A in North Carolina got into trouble
Speaker 1: for asking for volunteers to work the drive through window. Right.
Speaker 1: And the reason it was volunteers is because instead of
Speaker 1: paying the workers, the restaurants said they would give them
Speaker 1: five free meals for every one hour shift that they worked. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I will say it, really, they'll show you how
Speaker 1: good Chick fil A is because all of you paused
Speaker 1: for a second when I said this before getting angry.
Speaker 1: You're like, wait, would I know? No, doesn't include the
Speaker 1: waffle fright, No, pooh pooh. So that's what's going on,
Speaker 1: a bunch of random things. But anyway, let's move on
Speaker 1: to some of the biggest news stories of the day,
Speaker 1: starting with an update on Joe Biden, the President, whose
Speaker 1: approval rating is going through its own recession. As you
Speaker 1: all know, the President had COVID and then recovered from
Speaker 1: it last week, but then after testing negative, the White
Speaker 1: House doctor is reporting that Biden is now testing positive
Speaker 1: again with what they call a rebound infection. It's definitely
Speaker 1: not the rebound Biden was hoping for. You know, come on,
Speaker 1: Jago and President the pomber rebounds, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no joke mcmar so. Anyway, the President is back
Speaker 1: in isolation again, but the White House says don't worry,
Speaker 1: he's feeling fine and he will be working the entire time.
Speaker 1: Although many of his supporters might not love his new project,
Speaker 1: President Biden says work can resume on former President Trunk's
Speaker 1: border wall. The White House wants four gaps in the
Speaker 1: fence to be filled in near you, Arizona. It's all
Speaker 1: was one of the busiest crossings for undocumented Ima Grant.
Speaker 1: It's another reversal of policy for the president who vowed
Speaker 1: not to add to his predecessor's efforts in any way
Speaker 1: on that project. There will not be another foot of
Speaker 1: wall constructed on my administration. That's right, there will be
Speaker 1: many feet of wall. Ha ha, gotcha. But yes, it
Speaker 1: looks like Joe Biden is completing Donald Trump's unfinished business.
Speaker 1: So if I was Mike Pence right now, I'd be
Speaker 1: nervous as hell. I'd be watching out. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't how it's enough. What I know about the story
Speaker 1: is how Fox doesn't know what to do with these
Speaker 1: kinds of stories, right because they want the wall, but
Speaker 1: they also hate Joe Biden. You know, like, did you
Speaker 1: see what Biden is doing? He wasn't He was against
Speaker 1: the wall, but now he's building it. I guess we
Speaker 1: have to vote for him. How does this work? But
Speaker 1: you do have to admit it is confusing, right because Biden,
Speaker 1: he spent what four years railing against the wall. He
Speaker 1: was like, this wall is fascist, is racist, and it's
Speaker 1: un American, and now we're gonna have it. Patches up
Speaker 1: for no time, folks, We're gonna fix up this wall.
Speaker 1: We're gonna fix it all up now, Okay. The reason
Speaker 1: the reason the Biden administration gave for building Trump's wall
Speaker 1: in these sections of Arizona is because they're saying it's
Speaker 1: dangerous for migrants to cross the river there, right, and
Speaker 1: so they want to put up a wall to stop
Speaker 1: the people from crossing, which you have to admit is
Speaker 1: a little weird because now they're saying that walls do
Speaker 1: stop people from crossing. Yeah, but they're only doing it
Speaker 1: here because they want to make it safer, right, because
Speaker 1: the river is super dangerous, so they want people to
Speaker 1: try a cross here other parts, I guess, although if
Speaker 1: you really wanted to make crossing a river safer, then
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you just build a bridge? It's the batting
Speaker 1: the wall. None of them makes sense. They none of
Speaker 1: them makes sense, you know why? Or why? Because it's bullshit,
Speaker 1: that's why. Yeah, it doesn't make sense. And look, I
Speaker 1: can't say it for certain, but it seems like the
Speaker 1: only reason they're building a wall in these sections is
Speaker 1: because these sections could affect Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, who's
Speaker 1: running for re election in Arizona, and he's been pushing
Speaker 1: for these sections to be filled. Right when you see
Speaker 1: it through that lens, it makes a lot more sense.
Speaker 1: Migrants sneaking into Arizona, that's whatever, but Republicans sneaking into
Speaker 1: the Senate. You gotta shut that ship down. And either way,
Speaker 1: either way, I hope because he's one of those things
Speaker 1: that can bring America together. You know, this is one
Speaker 1: of those moments where people can unite because when you
Speaker 1: think about a Trump and Biden have more in common
Speaker 1: than we think. They both want the wall filled in,
Speaker 1: they both have shady sons, and they both have close
Speaker 1: companions who require annual radise shots. It's a beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 1: things to see Briton and Trump. Oh. Speaking of Trump,
Speaker 1: the Tangerine Dream is back in the news. We yet
Speaker 1: another scandal, because this is one of the wildest things
Speaker 1: ever because remember how his wife, Ivana passed away, right,
Speaker 1: really sad stories passed away. Well, it turns out the
Speaker 1: Donald may have managed to turn even that into a scam.
Speaker 1: Ivanna Trump, the first wife of President Trump, has been
Speaker 1: laid to rest in an unusual location near the first
Speaker 1: hole at President Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Speaker 1: The reason is unclear, but According to Insider, operating a
Speaker 1: cemetery on the golf course will allow President Trump to
Speaker 1: avoid paying taxes on the land. Wow wow, wow wow wow.
Speaker 1: A lot of people say I'll pay taxes over my
Speaker 1: dead body. Trump means it to someone else's body. And
Speaker 1: even for him, this feels like a step too far.
Speaker 1: I don't care what anyone says like I. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even laugh at that as a joke. If someone said
Speaker 1: to me Donald Trump's ex wife died, He's probably gonna
Speaker 1: bury her on his golf course to save on taxes,
Speaker 1: I'll be like, Yo, that's not cool, man, that's not cool.
Speaker 1: But it turns out Trump was like, wait, wait, say more,
Speaker 1: say more. I'm gonna send this to my account and
Speaker 1: keep going. But this lady shows you it's how strange
Speaker 1: the tax system can be. Like, all this tax break
Speaker 1: does is insensivize you to be a widow who came
Speaker 1: up with this. It always feels like the law was
Speaker 1: written by a serial killer. It's just like, there should
Speaker 1: be a law that if you bury a body in
Speaker 1: your yard, you don't have to pay taxes anymore. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, the the senator whose interns keep disappearing
Speaker 1: makes a good point. The motion passes. Good point, good point,
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. All right, that's it for the headlines. But
Speaker 1: to pull we go to a break. It's time to
Speaker 1: check in on the weather. Foc off without very own
Speaker 1: dassi light like everybody why you want it? Could see?
Speaker 1: So what's happening? What's happening? The weather calmed down? What's
Speaker 1: the what's the weather looking like? Oh man, it is
Speaker 1: all blue skies and sunshine. For whoever won the one
Speaker 1: point three billion jackpot, I'll tell you that. God, I
Speaker 1: I wonder who. I wonder who she is. I mean,
Speaker 1: it could be any of us, any of us in
Speaker 1: this room right now. One might even wonder why she
Speaker 1: came to work today, right are you? Are you saying
Speaker 1: you won the lottery? Look, I'm saying the winner has
Speaker 1: chosen to be anonymous. You know, in many ways they're
Speaker 1: building a wall between them and us knowing. But whoever
Speaker 1: she is, she probably has enough money to buy her
Speaker 1: boss a new car. Wait wait, wait, so you did
Speaker 1: want you won the lottery? As saying, I don't know?
Speaker 1: I don't know, did I? Trevor? Who knows? Anyway? By
Speaker 1: the way, that Avana story is so crazy being laid
Speaker 1: to rest on his golf course. God, I feel for
Speaker 1: all of Trump's wives, and even in the afterlife, they
Speaker 1: still have to deal with his balls coming at them.
Speaker 1: I love as God let her rest. Although I will
Speaker 1: say tax moves like this are very very common among
Speaker 1: the ultra wealthy, something I've been reading up on recently.
Speaker 1: For no particular reason. I bought an island. So anyway,
Speaker 1: so you're saying that you did win the lost what's
Speaker 1: coming on here? Did you? That's Trevor, that's ridiculous. Although
Speaker 1: I will say I'm feeling very generous tonight, which is
Speaker 1: why I have a special announcement for the audience. Everyone
Speaker 1: in this audience, I am sending all of your kids
Speaker 1: to college, Yes, all of them, all of them, even
Speaker 1: the underachievers, all of them. I'm talking room board, iPads,
Speaker 1: the good drugs, all of it. Because and maybe you
Speaker 1: saw this coming, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it.
Speaker 1: I have the winning ticket here. It is right here,
Speaker 1: right here. Can we get can we get a close up?
Speaker 1: That is it? No? No, don't don't care for that day.
Speaker 1: That's that's not that's not a real ticket. That is it?
Speaker 1: That is the real ticket, Trevor, it is absolutely a
Speaker 1: d percent real. You can tell because it says not fake.
Speaker 1: It is definitely real. And you're not going to blow
Speaker 1: this for me, So back me up here blowing anything.
Speaker 1: The winner is in someone in Illinois. That's Look, someone
Speaker 1: has to come forward. No one has come forward yet,
Speaker 1: so there's a window of opportunity. Look, I can cut
Speaker 1: you in on this if you just act cool. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm in. There's no acting cool. I think that no
Speaker 1: one's going to be fooled by that. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: come on, really, you're going to do this to me,
Speaker 1: You're gonna do this to then their children. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: guess what, audience. None of your kids are going to college? Yeah,
Speaker 1: none of them because of this man right here. This man.
Speaker 1: Don't be fooled by these dimples. He does not believe
Speaker 1: in dreams. He's a dream rusher. That makes no sense.
Speaker 1: You're the one who promised the thing. By the way, Trevor,
Speaker 1: you are not invited to my island. You didn't actually
Speaker 1: buy an island. I actually did. It's amazing what you
Speaker 1: can buy with a credit card. Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: so so much debt. I'm gonna have to see if
Speaker 1: Chick fil A is still hiring volunteers. All right, Disney
Speaker 1: like everybody, and you put yourself in the smith. Don't
Speaker 1: go away because off of the break would Junior will
Speaker 1: tell us where Drake and Beyonce go all of the idea.
Speaker 1: Welcome back from the day show. You know, Black Street
Speaker 1: doesn't just have to be for February. It can be
Speaker 1: for normal sized months too, So let's go to Royal Jr.
Speaker 1: For another episode of CPE Time. M Hello, welcome to
Speaker 1: see Pee Time, the only show that's from the culture. Today,
Speaker 1: we'll be discussing house music. When I say house music,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about all those weird sounds that you
Speaker 1: hear in your home, the floor creaking, the radiator playing
Speaker 1: a beat at three in the morning, or when you're
Speaker 1: washing machine beats like crazy to let you know it's
Speaker 1: done with the load. It's right, ladies, Daddy's got clean
Speaker 1: boxes on deck. I'm talking about the genre of fast paced, beat,
Speaker 1: heavy dance music that's kept the molly industry alive for
Speaker 1: forty years. That's the stuff music rolling because you are too.
Speaker 1: House music is all the rage these days, from Drake
Speaker 1: and Beyonce to Swedish house mafia to Mickey Mouse's cocade
Speaker 1: cousin who lives in the bad part of Epcot. But
Speaker 1: would you believe that this genre has its origins in
Speaker 1: the black community? Of course you should cep time. You
Speaker 1: never heard me say, surprise, it's Caucasians. So yes, these
Speaker 1: modern artists stand on the shoulders of house music, black
Speaker 1: and gay founders. So let's talk about some of them,
Speaker 1: like Francis Nichols, a k a. Frankie Knuckles. Frankie started
Speaker 1: as a d J in New York at a time
Speaker 1: for rocious backlash against disco music, so bad that in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, a crowd gathered at Chicago's Comiskey Park
Speaker 1: to burn the records of artists and what was known
Speaker 1: as Disco Demolition Night. Even watching the footage today, it's
Speaker 1: still a shocking sight a full baseball stadium. By the way,
Speaker 1: here's a tip. If you ever had a mass burning,
Speaker 1: you're probably on the wrong side. No one has ever said,
Speaker 1: well that mass burning was a success. Now all the
Speaker 1: orphans are safe. Anyway, Disco was dead, but people still
Speaker 1: wanted to get down in the club, and so Frankie
Speaker 1: Nuckles started experimenting with the new style of dance music
Speaker 1: at his home club in Chicago, The Warehouse. That's where
Speaker 1: house music gets its name, not as some people think,
Speaker 1: from Doctor House, although Doctor House does love popping peels.
Speaker 1: With this partner, Larry Levan Frankie Knuckles helped the house
Speaker 1: music scene and the careers of many superstar DJs like
Speaker 1: Ron Hardy, who created a technique of extending songs indefinitely,
Speaker 1: bringing the crowd to a fever pitch. It was so
Speaker 1: entrancing that one night people continued to dance at his
Speaker 1: club even after a speaker caught on fire. You know
Speaker 1: a song is good when people keep dancing during the fire.
Speaker 1: That does not happen with Cotton Eye Joe. When I
Speaker 1: hear that song, I try to start a fire just
Speaker 1: so I can get away. Where did you come from?
Speaker 1: Where did you go? Out out this burning house? And finally,
Speaker 1: one of the most iconic voices of house music, the
Speaker 1: Queen of club Land, Martha Wash. Martha was half of
Speaker 1: the famous duo The Weather Girls, who created some of
Speaker 1: the most iconic music of the eighties, including It's Raining Men. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: due to climate change, It's Raining Men far harder and
Speaker 1: longer than ever before Hallelujah. After the Weather Girls broke up,
Speaker 1: Martha Wash ended up with Sea and See Music Factory,
Speaker 1: where she sang the unforgettable hook every instantly recognizable. But
Speaker 1: controversy arrived with the music video when the group cast
Speaker 1: a French model to lip Saint Martha's lyrics, and she
Speaker 1: didn't find out until she saw the video. Finding out
Speaker 1: bad news is even worse when it happens on television.
Speaker 1: You never want the worst moment of your life followed
Speaker 1: by a Pine Saw commercial. Not only that, Sea and
Speaker 1: See Music Factory didn't even credit her for the vocal
Speaker 1: yet another employee being mistreated by a factory. But Martha
Speaker 1: Washed pushed back and south Sea and Sea Music Factory
Speaker 1: for proper credit. She won the case and that led
Speaker 1: to federal legislation making vocal credits mandatory and music That's Right.
Speaker 1: Even her lawsuits were hits. So whenever you see an
Speaker 1: album that says something like vocals by Little pop Vert
Speaker 1: hashtag the Lean God, you can thank Martha Wash for
Speaker 1: whatever the hell that meant. That wraps up our time
Speaker 1: with house music. If you like that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: which personally I do not. Maybe I'm old school. But
Speaker 1: that type of music is undignified. Shaking my hips like
Speaker 1: a heathen. Thank you. There's no commandment about dropping it low.
Speaker 1: That movie Dirty Dancing was about two people rubbing crotches
Speaker 1: in public places. It's a terrible wouldn't it? Roy? Is
Speaker 1: that you? God? I knew you were a black woman. No,
Speaker 1: it's me, Martha Wash. What's this I hear about you
Speaker 1: not liking dance music? Martha? I cannot abide by dance music,
Speaker 1: not a single note. I'm a man of culture. I
Speaker 1: shop me it once a decade and that's it. Nonsense.
Speaker 1: Everyone can dance. Everyone must dance. Hit a studio hit
Speaker 1: from O God. Oh, come on God, waken, slow down
Speaker 1: a little bit. You look like your box in the Kangaroo.
Speaker 1: Help with Marther. You put the devil of it. He's
Speaker 1: loving it. He's hips of Satan's Kingdom. Now, huh, that's
Speaker 1: all the time we have to see for your time,
Speaker 1: I've been Royal Junior. I remember well for the culture.
Speaker 1: Oh lord, it's raining me. I mean, come on, Danny's
Speaker 1: thank you so much? Cold right with Julie? All right,
Speaker 1: say too, because when we come back, Secretary Pete, who
Speaker 1: the jack looks joining all right here on the show.
Speaker 1: Go on, Welcome back to the Heady show. Might get
Speaker 1: to like serves as Transportation Secretary in the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: He's here to talk about infrastructure and so much more.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Secretary Pete. Secretary Pete Buddha Jes, Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Daily Show. It's it's weird though, because I've
Speaker 1: known you for so long as Maya Pete. Everyone knows
Speaker 1: you as Maya Pete. It's always answered Pete. You will, okay,
Speaker 1: so you won't get offended. You won't be like no,
Speaker 1: it's secretary may have Pete now no, okay, okay, Well,
Speaker 1: congratulations on the new job. We haven't seen you since
Speaker 1: you've gotten it. You you know, it's been it's been
Speaker 1: a lively period for you to be in this position.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the most important question. Maybe there was
Speaker 1: a one point two trillion dollar infrastructure build that was possible, Yes,
Speaker 1: if my memory shows me correct, So that's taxpayer money
Speaker 1: and everyone paid for that infrastructure. You're the person who
Speaker 1: are doing a lot of infrastructure. So where's our money, Pete?
Speaker 1: What's what are you doing with the money? What's going great?
Speaker 1: Last week we announced a use of part of the
Speaker 1: money in order to make more transit stations accessible. A
Speaker 1: couple of weeks before that, we put out the first
Speaker 1: wave of airport terminal grants were improved, proving eighty four
Speaker 1: airport terminals around the country. This morning, I was in
Speaker 1: New Jersey. There's a bridge there, the Portal North Bridge. Alright,
Speaker 1: for a couple of folks here recognize it. This bridge.
Speaker 1: It's it's the finest construction engineering from the Roosevelt administration,
Speaker 1: the Teddy Roosevelt administration. It is a hundred eleven years old,
Speaker 1: and when they swing it back into place sometimes it
Speaker 1: works so poorly that workers have to take sledge hammers
Speaker 1: in order to get the rails to align. We're rebuilding
Speaker 1: the bridge completely. We broke ground on it this morning
Speaker 1: with the Governor, and it's just one of a lot
Speaker 1: of more things we're doing with so yeah, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's everything that that we've wanted for a long time
Speaker 1: in American infrastructure. After years and years, years and years
Speaker 1: of talk. The last president talked a good game about this.
Speaker 1: Now we are actually getting at getting done. How are
Speaker 1: you getting it done? Right? It's it's interesting that you
Speaker 1: say that this is. This is something I find particularly
Speaker 1: strange in American politics. Everybody likes infrastructure, However, it seems
Speaker 1: like people are more or less likely to like it
Speaker 1: depending on who is building the infrastructure. So to your point,
Speaker 1: Trump said from the visa like I want to improve
Speaker 1: America's infrastructure. People like this is great, you know, And
Speaker 1: then when Biden says it feels like a lot of
Speaker 1: Republicans have said, oh no, no, we don't. We don't
Speaker 1: like it. We don't like where you're spending the money,
Speaker 1: how you're spending the money. When you go to these
Speaker 1: actual communities, because that's what infrastructure affects, actual communities, do
Speaker 1: you find that it is still less partisan or when
Speaker 1: you get on the ground, does it have more of
Speaker 1: a like a just an American feel to it? In
Speaker 1: the communities, it's incredibly bipartisan. I'm in red states, Blue states,
Speaker 1: purple states. People don't care about the party of the presidents.
Speaker 1: They want to get the job done. I mean I was.
Speaker 1: I was in one of the reddest parts of Indiana,
Speaker 1: southern Indiana, where we're upgrading a port uh in a
Speaker 1: tiny community called Tel City, about seven thousand people in
Speaker 1: that in that whole community and the port is on
Speaker 1: the river. It's actually just a crane on a barge. Basically,
Speaker 1: we're upgrading that. We went there to celebrate what that's
Speaker 1: going to do to help him get pig iron that
Speaker 1: comes in on barges on the on the river. And
Speaker 1: not a single person asked me about Republican Democrats stuff.
Speaker 1: Among the residents there, they were just excited. Now. There
Speaker 1: were a lot of people on Capitol Hill who voted no,
Speaker 1: although I will say quite a few Republicans came over
Speaker 1: and voted with Democrats to get this done. What I
Speaker 1: will also say is a lot of the ones who
Speaker 1: voted against it have not hesitated to write us letters
Speaker 1: about how they'd now like that funding to go to
Speaker 1: their districts, which I take to be in and you
Speaker 1: know we're gonna do this without regard to politics. I
Speaker 1: just consider it in policy world, i'd call it the
Speaker 1: sincerest form of flattery. When they vote against your stuff
Speaker 1: and then they do the stuff that they voted against.
Speaker 1: It is an interesting position to be in because you know,
Speaker 1: as a secretary, in many ways, you have to remove
Speaker 1: the politics from your job, even though you offer filling
Speaker 1: the mandate of a person who is inherently political. You're
Speaker 1: going around the country, you're improving the worlds, you're trying
Speaker 1: to change how America operates. One of the biggest things
Speaker 1: we've seen recently sent a Joe Mansion jumping on board
Speaker 1: and saying, okay, let's get some of this money going
Speaker 1: for what is it now, the Inflation Inflation Reduction Act.
Speaker 1: Great um, And it seems like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: tension around E vs. Electric vehicles. I've seen some of
Speaker 1: your clips online. They get cut up, people splice it.
Speaker 1: They make it seem like you're saying what you're not saying.
Speaker 1: I won't cut you up, so I but I would
Speaker 1: would like to know why is the electric vehicle a
Speaker 1: better option for Americans? If if if there are people
Speaker 1: who are saying, well, this is our taxes, why don't
Speaker 1: we just use the taxes for other purposes? Why forced
Speaker 1: that money to go into the world of electric cars? Right? So,
Speaker 1: first of all, it's a very important part of how
Speaker 1: we fight climate change because transportation is the biggest sector
Speaker 1: in our economy that's emitting these grainhouse gases. But also
Speaker 1: it's better for drivers. You spend less money on gas
Speaker 1: even with normal gas prices. There would be a savings
Speaker 1: to having an electric vehicle. Uh, and there's less maintenance,
Speaker 1: so it's a win win win. Plus, this is where
Speaker 1: the automotive industry is going anyway globally, so it's really
Speaker 1: important to make sure that we're competing, that our competitiveness
Speaker 1: is such that this is a made in America electric
Speaker 1: vehicle revolution. Now it's more ideological than it should be
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. But again, you know, the the same
Speaker 1: constituents who who are watching this this back and forth
Speaker 1: on on Capitol Hill, they're also seeing the Super Bowl ads.
Speaker 1: They know what an evy actually costs, and hopefully they're
Speaker 1: seeing that we're about to bring that cost lower through
Speaker 1: the Inflation Reduction Act. So some of the same politicians
Speaker 1: who were beating us up about e vs, saying they're
Speaker 1: too expensive, they have a chance coming up to vote
Speaker 1: to make them cheaper. We'll see what they do. When
Speaker 1: you look at the incredument America in the structor look
Speaker 1: at the cause, and look at the trains, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: constantly amazed at how just in the American idea, trains
Speaker 1: seem to be a completely alien concept. You know, away
Speaker 1: when you travel to Europe you see what they're doing
Speaker 1: with the trains. I mean, Japan was one of the
Speaker 1: most amazing experiences I've ever had. You just get anywhere
Speaker 1: on a train almost instantly. And in America, people almost
Speaker 1: you know, make it seem like it's Unamerican to not
Speaker 1: drive a car and prefer a train. I know, when
Speaker 1: Obama came into power, he said we should get high
Speaker 1: speed rail going. That was completely thrown out. You are
Speaker 1: the Transportation and secretary. Are you focusing on that is
Speaker 1: the world where we will get like super fast trains
Speaker 1: to take people across the country, to rule parts of
Speaker 1: the country, like will revitalize the country. Yeah, and we're
Speaker 1: taking the first steps in that direction right now. Look,
Speaker 1: I thought I was the biggest trained person I know,
Speaker 1: but in this administration, I'm always gonna be second place
Speaker 1: after the President when it comes to enthusiasm for passenger rail. Look, frankly,
Speaker 1: the first order of business is to take care of
Speaker 1: what we've got. We've got a huge backlog because there's
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of resistance to investing in our
Speaker 1: rail networks, but also resistance coming from you know, some
Speaker 1: of its ideological, so it's cultural. But the way I
Speaker 1: see it is why shouldn't Americans have the best rail
Speaker 1: in the world if we're a competitive country and we
Speaker 1: believe that we ought to be the best in everything.
Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned that the standard that the Japanese,
Speaker 1: I mean, never mind just the Japanese standard. If you're
Speaker 1: in Italy or Morocco or Turkey, you can routinely expect
Speaker 1: faster rail service than in the US. We can and
Speaker 1: must change that. And it begins with what we're doing
Speaker 1: with this because sometimes I'll be driving, let's I'll be
Speaker 1: driving from like the airport, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: airports as well, driving from the airport coming into New
Speaker 1: York City, and then I'll be driving past people in
Speaker 1: a train and I see them looking at the cause going.
Speaker 1: But we're in a train and I'm in the traffic
Speaker 1: like you guys are in a train, they should be
Speaker 1: going faster than me. Right. The logic that is how
Speaker 1: that generally should work. It should be why isn't it
Speaker 1: going that? What's what's going wrong? Because you get what
Speaker 1: you pay for, and this country, for basically as long
Speaker 1: as you and I have been alive, has been under
Speaker 1: investing in rail. And when you do that, there's a
Speaker 1: rail cost to that. And by the way, it's a
Speaker 1: win when we do, because if you do have great rail,
Speaker 1: that's even good for the people who are in the
Speaker 1: cars because there's less congestion on exactly the same reason.
Speaker 1: We're investing in transit right now. It makes all the
Speaker 1: sense in the world. It always did, but that much
Speaker 1: more now that we're facing this climate challenge. You're not
Speaker 1: just investing in transit. They're investing in the roads themselves.
Speaker 1: I know you made headlines when and correct me if
Speaker 1: I paraphrase you incorrected, But I mean you basically said
Speaker 1: that America's roads are racist, right, exactly what I say?
Speaker 1: Exactly no no, no, no no, But because I understand
Speaker 1: what you're saying, but say, but the point is, look,
Speaker 1: there are many places in the US where a road
Speaker 1: or a railroad was used to divide or segregate, or
Speaker 1: even remove a neighborhood. Typically I complete. I mean, the
Speaker 1: very fact that we have the phrase wrong side of
Speaker 1: the tracks in American English language tells you something about
Speaker 1: how infrastructure, which is supposed to connect can also be
Speaker 1: used to divide, often on racial lines. And we've got
Speaker 1: to face and we can do something. What can you
Speaker 1: do about that. Are you going to Are you gonna
Speaker 1: rip up the roads? And this is what people say,
Speaker 1: They say Pee is coming, He's going to rip up
Speaker 1: the high ways. There's gonna be normal highways anymore. Everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna normal highways. What are you actually planning to do
Speaker 1: to try and write many of those wrongs? So what
Speaker 1: we're doing is now that we're making the biggest investment
Speaker 1: in highways and roads since the Eisenhower administration, we're going
Speaker 1: to get it right. And that includes recognizing that infrastructure
Speaker 1: is supposed to connect, not divide. Some places, that might
Speaker 1: mean that you've got a road that's that's cutting up
Speaker 1: a neighborhood, it needs to go underground and then you
Speaker 1: can put a cap over, and then you can put
Speaker 1: a park in that cap and create value in the
Speaker 1: whole neighborhood. Sometimes it doesn't have to be as elaborate
Speaker 1: and expensive as that. Maybe it's creating a transit link
Speaker 1: or pedestrian bridge. It's going to look different in every community.
Speaker 1: But the point is every community is coming to us
Speaker 1: with ideas about how to do this, and and the
Speaker 1: thing is everybody wins when we do this. Nobody's worse
Speaker 1: off when we reconnect areas that have been separated or segregated.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why anybody would be against us
Speaker 1: doing that when the whole point of transportation is to connect,
Speaker 1: not to divide. I think the reason why of people
Speaker 1: would be against it is although suff explani story, you
Speaker 1: won't have people want to be here, they want other
Speaker 1: people to be there. The airports is something I definitely
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about this. This is a
Speaker 1: weird situation. How know you tweeted about it and no sentence.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren came out saying like, this is this is
Speaker 1: what we should do. We should find the airlines. Anyone
Speaker 1: who's flown knows how difficult it can be. The airline
Speaker 1: can almost do anything to you with impunity. They can
Speaker 1: cancel your flight. They can delay your flight ten times
Speaker 1: and then cancel it. Then they'll tell you we won't
Speaker 1: give you the money, we'll give you a credit, and
Speaker 1: then your credit maybe used, maybe not be used. So
Speaker 1: this is important, A little bit of news you can use.
Speaker 1: If they cancel your flight, you are entitled to a
Speaker 1: cash refund, and we enforce that rule. A lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know that. So you get canceled, you call
Speaker 1: the airline. They're like, well, we'll give you a two
Speaker 1: thousand miles. How's that sound? And that might sound good.
Speaker 1: That's worth about twenty bucks. And you are entitled to
Speaker 1: potentially hundreds of dollars in refunds. But I'm entitled, But
Speaker 1: how do I actually get that? Like? Do I send
Speaker 1: you you'll like, do something? How do we make this
Speaker 1: people getting their flights about something they don't wear any
Speaker 1: I don't how do you know orcement? Yea, So first
Speaker 1: of all, when you ask them to give you refund,
Speaker 1: they have to do it. But if they don't, come
Speaker 1: to us. We have an entire Office of Aviation Consumer Protection.
Speaker 1: We enforced as a matter of fact, and we're doing it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just this summer thing. Last year we actually
Speaker 1: issued the biggest fine in the history of the program
Speaker 1: because an airline was failing to promptly refund people. We
Speaker 1: got a website. You go to the DT website and
Speaker 1: look up more about your rights as an air consumer.
Speaker 1: But know your rights because we have your back. I
Speaker 1: like that. Okay, send Pete. That's the people should say.
Speaker 1: Seen Pete um lost not least not least you know
Speaker 1: mitchums are coming up people, are you know American people
Speaker 1: are looking at four already? It was interesting because a
Speaker 1: new New Hampshire poll came out recently which had you
Speaker 1: slightly edging President Biden in the race for four. Now,
Speaker 1: I know you are secretary, so you can't say anything
Speaker 1: about that. It's political and you're not obviously your boss.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna say anything bad and you won't. But
Speaker 1: but and if I said to you, are you gonna run?
Speaker 1: Knowing if I say are you gonna run, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: say you're gonna run or what it? But I just
Speaker 1: want to know when you see a poll like that
Speaker 1: doesn't give you a little more swag, And meetings with
Speaker 1: the president doesn't give you like a little like if
Speaker 1: he says something to him, are you are you ever?
Speaker 1: Like You're Joe? Like? Is ever like a book? If
Speaker 1: I want to look good in front of my boss,
Speaker 1: the best thing I can do is have just broken
Speaker 1: ground on a major project like we did today in
Speaker 1: New Jersey. That's gonna be my focus because that's my job.
Speaker 1: So slick, so good, want to do. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for joking on the show. Game. Keep pulling roll
Speaker 1: off the trains, Kick boota jags. Everybody, We're gonna take
Speaker 1: a quick break over the right back after this. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Vern Muck so happy you back again. Thank you. Well,
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