Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central Jam.
Speaker 2: From Chicago, home of the world's most inedible bee.
Speaker 3: It's the Daily Shows Indecision twenty twenty four, the Democratic
Speaker 3: National Convention.
Speaker 2: Broadcast with your host Michael Costa, who.
Speaker 4: To the deal Shows. My God, I'm Michael Costa.
Speaker 5: And we are in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Oh man, awesome. It's great to be here. It's great
Speaker 1: to be here. The weather is beautiful.
Speaker 5: I now get why you all live here, because it's
Speaker 5: like this year round, unbelievable. Plus it's an hour earlier
Speaker 5: than New York, so I get to start drinking at
Speaker 5: nine instead of ten am.
Speaker 1: There's Chicago. But hey, enough about me.
Speaker 5: We're here for the Democratic National Convention, So let's get
Speaker 5: right into our coverage of Indecision twenty twenty four. As
Speaker 5: of tonight, the DNC is officially underway, and to hear
Speaker 5: Democrats tell it, it's going to be a hell of
Speaker 5: a week.
Speaker 6: All either on Chicago.
Speaker 5: It is game day for the Democratic Party, the kickoff
Speaker 5: of the Democratic National Convention, America's Blue Party, a wash
Speaker 5: in fresh optimism. Everybody and their mom is trying to
Speaker 5: get the hottest ticket in the Windy City.
Speaker 7: Frankly, it'll be like a rock concert. I think people
Speaker 7: are going to be cheering and pretty excited.
Speaker 1: Let's go Democrats. You know, the dumber your hat, the
Speaker 1: more energy you always have.
Speaker 5: No one ever puts on a donkey hat and is like,
Speaker 5: you know what, let's stay in tonight. But of course
Speaker 5: Democrats are exciting because this is a chance for them
Speaker 5: to lay out their specific vision each night.
Speaker 1: And let's hear what you.
Speaker 8: Got new this morning. We are learning how each night
Speaker 8: of the convention will highlight her vision for the country.
Speaker 8: Tomorrow's opening night's theme for the people, Tuesday will outline
Speaker 8: democrats bold vision for America's future. Wednesday they're calling a
Speaker 8: fight for our freedoms, and Thursday a message for our future.
Speaker 5: Uh a bold policy move by the Democrats. Tuesday is
Speaker 5: for the future and Thursday is also for the future.
Speaker 5: How do you have themes that are so vague and
Speaker 5: then still run of ideas by Thursday. This is like
Speaker 5: when The Fast and the Furious movies ran out of
Speaker 5: different ways to say that the movies would be fast
Speaker 5: and furious, too fast, too furious, faster and more furiouser.
Speaker 1: The fastestest and furious system. We get it.
Speaker 5: The cargoes room, all right, but it's not all going
Speaker 5: to be as vague as their daily themes. The Democrats
Speaker 5: also released a very detailed party platform, and you can
Speaker 5: tell how much time and energy they put into it
Speaker 5: because they forgot to replace Joe Biden's name with Kamala's. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and that's not just lazy, guys, it's risky. Joe Biden's
Speaker 5: going to read that and be like, guess up the
Speaker 5: corvette I'm going back in.
Speaker 1: But look, obviously there's going.
Speaker 5: To be some policy talk during the DNC, but is
Speaker 5: there gonna be anything that's more fun than that?
Speaker 9: We'll have some celebs on hand at the Democratic National Convention.
Speaker 9: It kicks off today and it's got a few notable
Speaker 9: celebrities that are actually set to host this week's events.
Speaker 9: So starting off, we have Scandal stars Kerry Washington along
Speaker 9: with Tony Goldwyn. They're among the hosts for the four
Speaker 9: day convention, as well as comic Mindy Kayling and the
Speaker 9: View co hosts and a Navarro.
Speaker 6: Rumors are swirling big time.
Speaker 5: Everybody's talking about it that two of the biggest names
Speaker 5: in music, Beyonce Taylor Swift, might make appearances.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that?
Speaker 5: A completely unsubstantiated rumor about Taylor Swift and Beyonce.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, give it up for Anna Navarro
Speaker 1: and Tony Goldwin. Why are our news reporters talking out
Speaker 1: of their ass like that?
Speaker 5: This feels like hosting a birthday when you're thirteen and
Speaker 5: being like, Hey, my cousin says he knows Tony Hawk,
Speaker 5: so I don't know he might show up. Wait, even
Speaker 5: if you can't get into the convention itself, there's all
Speaker 5: sorts of things to see and do around town, like
Speaker 5: this thing.
Speaker 8: The planned Para Heard mobile clinic has also just arrived,
Speaker 8: but we're offering free abortion medication IUDs and the sectimies.
Speaker 5: A group called Americans for Contraception as a twenty foot
Speaker 5: inflatable IUD.
Speaker 1: Near the United Center. They've named it Frieda Frida. Its
Speaker 1: name is Frieda. That's a little confusing.
Speaker 5: The name Frieda makes me think of my little old grandma,
Speaker 5: which actually is my preferred form of contraception. Actually, the
Speaker 5: truth is Frieda is short for you are free dudges
Speaker 5: inside me.
Speaker 1: Now, I I knew, I knew Chicago would love that joke.
Speaker 5: Now, some men are out there and they see this
Speaker 5: and they're asking, is a regular IUD inflatable too, And
Speaker 5: the answer is yes, Okay. The way an IUD works
Speaker 5: is you inflate it, you insert it into the uterus
Speaker 5: and it waves its floppy arms, like get out of here, sperm,
Speaker 5: get out of here, shoe.
Speaker 1: And while you're here, buy a Nissan and mobile v sectomies. Look.
Speaker 5: I'm not ragging on it or anything, but if I'm
Speaker 5: going to get my balls operated on, I'm going to
Speaker 5: need to be in a.
Speaker 1: Structure that won't get towed.
Speaker 5: Now for more on this, we go to Grace School
Speaker 5: and Schmid. Grace, Grace, the Democrats are really emphasizing reproductive
Speaker 5: rights this.
Speaker 10: Week, absolutely, Michael. This week is all about genitals. They've
Speaker 10: they've got the vasectomy vans, they've got the inflatable IUDs,
Speaker 10: and look right behind me, they've installed a giant glitterists.
Speaker 1: Actually, Grace, I think that's the bean.
Speaker 10: Ah, yeah, that's what I.
Speaker 1: All right, Grace, cool and Schmid. Everyone.
Speaker 5: But while the VNC kicks off, the rest of the
Speaker 5: campaign is continuing and Donald Trump is laser focused on
Speaker 5: the issues that are most important to American people. They said, no,
Speaker 5: her biggest advantage is that she's a beautiful woman.
Speaker 6: I'm gone, huh, I never thought of that.
Speaker 11: I'm better looking than she is.
Speaker 5: I'm a better looking person than Kamala than Camel. Just
Speaker 5: so you know, man, just because you wear more makeup
Speaker 5: than Kamala doesn't mean you look better.
Speaker 1: Is this?
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, Kamala Harrison Tim Wallas just finished a bus tour
Speaker 5: of Pennsylvania and it seems like they had a good time.
Speaker 5: You know, you got Tim Walls handing Kamala Dorito's Doug
Speaker 5: m Hoff also handing.
Speaker 1: Kamala Dorito's Kamala.
Speaker 5: Looking at that display case, wondering how long that hard
Speaker 5: boiled egg has been there. Just have the secret service,
Speaker 5: try a Kamala. That's what they're there for. By the way,
Speaker 5: you just know Tim Walls is the happiest guy in
Speaker 5: the world to be spending this much time on a bus.
Speaker 1: He's probably on the bus. He's got his own map.
Speaker 5: You know, he's giving the driver advice.
Speaker 1: Oh, you could take the thirty four tot.
Speaker 5: Of sixteen, but honestly, to seven to a fifty.
Speaker 1: Three, they got better rest stops. The Walls has also.
Speaker 5: Been carving out time for his own campaign rallies over
Speaker 5: the weekend, he hit a rally in Nebraska, where he
Speaker 5: grew up, and while he was there, he threw down
Speaker 5: the gauntlet in a very Nebraska way.
Speaker 12: Do you think JD vanshnows one damn thing about Nebraska?
Speaker 12: He's going to be here next week. You think he's
Speaker 12: ever had a ronza? You think he's ever had a runza?
Speaker 12: That guy would call it a hot pocket?
Speaker 1: You know it, every one of you in your no.
Speaker 5: Extremely regional slam Wall's got him good, I think. I mean,
Speaker 5: that was the most specific pandering I've ever heard. I
Speaker 5: had to look up what our runza is. It's basically
Speaker 5: meat stuffed inside bread, and apparently it's a regional favorite
Speaker 5: in Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Although I always say.
Speaker 5: If regional meats are so good, they'd be national meats.
Speaker 5: And if that didn't happen, maybe they weren't ready for
Speaker 5: the big time, you know. For more on the runs
Speaker 5: of Debate, we go live to Jordan Klepper. Jordan, that's right, Jordan.
Speaker 5: Does all this regional pandering actually work?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, Michael.
Speaker 13: Voters are savvy and this kind of pandering is treated
Speaker 13: them like idiots.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 13: Focus on the issues like how is Tim Walls going
Speaker 13: to sustain a bull market because everybody loves the bulls.
Speaker 1: Go bulls, you know. Okay, okay, so we agree, no pandering.
Speaker 1: Stick to the issue.
Speaker 13: Yes, well it needs to cut out the food talk,
Speaker 13: focus on the substance, beef it up, make it spicy.
Speaker 1: And everyone everyone.
Speaker 13: Knows the only way to do that is to throw
Speaker 13: a little jardonaire on there.
Speaker 6: You know who's hope they don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know what that reference was, but obviously you're
Speaker 5: also pandering to this crowd.
Speaker 13: What no, no, no, look Michael, No, I'm going deep
Speaker 13: on the issues, deep like deep, like this time's delicious
Speaker 13: and far superior pizza, and.
Speaker 4: I want to fail you. I have to failure Michael.
Speaker 13: If you have a problem with that, just call me
Speaker 13: lou mel Doddy captainy the good Ship Pequad because the
Speaker 13: truth is my little orna. Yes, also Girdano's.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, this is cheap. I mean, I can
Speaker 1: rile a crowd up to if you want.
Speaker 5: Me to, like, uh oh, hey, the Willis Tower isn't
Speaker 5: as high as the stakes.
Speaker 4: In this election.
Speaker 1: Stop.
Speaker 13: Nobody wants your stupid architecture reference as costa. If I
Speaker 13: wanted a legitimate architecture tour. I take the l down
Speaker 13: to the West Loops, winged by Portello's, had the East
Speaker 13: Wacker hupping a Wendela tour boat and gaze off at
Speaker 13: the flu fatures the architect vander Roh so z oh
Speaker 13: Costa E's up on the panderin. These folks can see
Speaker 13: it from a mile away, like the Willis Tower.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, but I said, I said Willis Tower too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you.
Speaker 13: Suck, you know, just like the Packers. Let's go Chicago
Speaker 13: bandor row Ben door Row there, door row.
Speaker 1: Ben door row, Jordan Clipper, everybody. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we take a guided tore up this great city. So
Speaker 1: don't go away.
Speaker 11: But I'm say, well a story I've said, Well, welcome
Speaker 11: back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: The Democrats could affect any city to hold the.
Speaker 5: Convention, So why Chicago, our own Jordan Klepper spent the
Speaker 5: day with a local to find out what Chicago has
Speaker 5: to offer.
Speaker 13: Beautiful Chicago my old term where I spent nearly a
Speaker 13: decade doing improv, comedy and posy like a hip hop magician.
Speaker 13: But this isn't about me. It's about showing the exotic
Speaker 13: hotspot Chicago has to offer, and I've got a little
Speaker 13: help from a local billionaire for tour guide. I'm here
Speaker 13: with Governor Ja pritz Gar. We're going to see that
Speaker 13: Chicago has more than this Wrigley Field and a bunch
Speaker 13: of drug cloaks in bar. Right, there's culture here. What
Speaker 13: are we gonna say?
Speaker 7: We got blues, we have the lake front, we got museum,
Speaker 7: were towns we are.
Speaker 1: Gonna get to.
Speaker 13: That's a drink here, we gotta get it.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 13: Let's saved my old play.
Speaker 1: It's perfect to get into the right bood.
Speaker 13: We eat a local delicacy, my Lord is.
Speaker 1: A Chicago special.
Speaker 7: So if you come to Chicago, I mean, if you
Speaker 7: want to be like chicagoan's you gotta have a moward.
Speaker 13: Yes, it's a it's a lovely liqueur made here in Chicago,
Speaker 13: and it tastes like it was made here in Chicago.
Speaker 13: But it's a leaded I love it. Cheers.
Speaker 7: Oh, that's some of the best malord I've ever had.
Speaker 13: That's delicious. I have this aftertaste like I was sucking
Speaker 13: on the leg of a wet dog. It's d NC week.
Speaker 13: The convention is here in Chicago.
Speaker 7: Why Chicago, Well, you know, we've had more political conventions
Speaker 7: in Chicago than any other city in America.
Speaker 13: You haven't always gone great. The demonstrators repeatedly tried to
Speaker 13: march on the side of the convention.
Speaker 7: Things have changed quite a lot, and they're protests at
Speaker 7: every convention. But the truth is that here in Chicago,
Speaker 7: we protect people's First Amendment rights and we're gonna put
Speaker 7: on one of the.
Speaker 4: Best conventions of these ever.
Speaker 7: Sum there's no city that has a better summer than
Speaker 7: the city of ship Line.
Speaker 13: This is like the Olympics for people who are not athletic.
Speaker 7: I know the sense of South excited you. But every
Speaker 7: delegation fifty states all day they're gonna be meetings among
Speaker 7: Democrats about the party platform.
Speaker 13: You're right, that doesn't sound exciting to see what the
Speaker 13: R ANDC did. Hulk Hogan, hul Hogan, Kid Rock, how
Speaker 13: do you beat now? What are you going to get?
Speaker 13: The guys from jackass?
Speaker 7: Honestly, this is going to be the most energetic convention
Speaker 7: that you've ever seen.
Speaker 13: Unfortunately, I see what their energetic convention is to be.
Speaker 7: Like Hillary Clinton is out there doing the macharina like
Speaker 7: nobody's business. So I actually think this is one of
Speaker 7: the great moments in her history.
Speaker 13: I wouldn't attach to her history. Keep it in history
Speaker 13: just as well. You know, Chicago has been known for
Speaker 13: a corruption in the past. Republicans are criticizing Kamala for
Speaker 13: getting in through as they would put it inside maneuvers.
Speaker 13: How does the party square or something like that?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding? Donald Trump tried to steal an election.
Speaker 13: He has one insurrection and we're gonna just that's always
Speaker 13: gonna be. You're gonna tar him with that.
Speaker 7: Yes, and and by the way, he says, if he
Speaker 7: doesn't win this time, he's been cheated.
Speaker 13: I gotta ask you, the governor, a big question. Is
Speaker 13: the Barra comedy or a drama?
Speaker 7: Okay, I don't know why it's in the comedy category,
Speaker 7: but I gotta say it's one of the best shows
Speaker 7: on TV and shows off Chicago.
Speaker 13: Let's this is some of the beautiful Chicago culture.
Speaker 1: Fella.
Speaker 13: Let's do it all right, put it on the prinz kers. Well, now,
Speaker 13: you've always say it back in the day. Okay, maybe
Speaker 13: we just hit one for Bob before we get to
Speaker 13: that past an it. Let's support yes, you know this,
Speaker 13: this empty bar takes me back to my improv days.
Speaker 13: The audience's response back then, but you do it because
Speaker 13: you love it. Okay, yeah, cheers.
Speaker 1: Okay, museums.
Speaker 7: Are we talking museums?
Speaker 13: No, we're going to museums.
Speaker 1: We got to do this.
Speaker 13: Let's see this town, this beautiful town, Governor. A lot
Speaker 13: of culture here, so much good architecture in Chicago.
Speaker 7: It is well, you know that started with the great
Speaker 7: Chicago fire, everything getting burned down, all the great architects
Speaker 7: and artists.
Speaker 13: And I used I used to drink here. We got
Speaker 13: to get a drink.
Speaker 7: See you again.
Speaker 1: Have you got a green line?
Speaker 7: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 13: Were you surprised about Biden stepping down?
Speaker 1: I was, I really was. It happened so fast.
Speaker 7: It was about noon on a Sunday.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, it was a Sunday. I remember that because
Speaker 13: I was in a church, not at a bar.
Speaker 7: I was at a church, and a lot of us
Speaker 7: were concerned about the direction of the election and whether
Speaker 7: Joe Biden was gonna be able to be competitive because
Speaker 7: the polls weren't looking good in this moment.
Speaker 13: Are you in a text chain with other governors.
Speaker 7: Well, actually there were governors talking.
Speaker 13: The governors push him out. No, no, no, you weren't
Speaker 13: nudging an old man to be clear, to be clin
Speaker 13: like walking by him on the sidewalk, doing with the governor,
Speaker 13: shake over hair.
Speaker 1: Listen, Joe Biden's tough. Anybody's gonna nudge anybody. He's the
Speaker 1: one nudge in somebody back.
Speaker 13: Oh, don't give me this. Look how tough he looks
Speaker 13: on a bike.
Speaker 7: Bullshit.
Speaker 1: He's a tough guy, he really is.
Speaker 7: And he understands politics better than most. And we don't
Speaker 7: have any time to waste. And Kamala Harris is our
Speaker 7: vice president.
Speaker 1: We all voted for her, so she's the one. And
Speaker 1: picking Tim.
Speaker 7: Wallas, I think he's actually the perfect kick.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: Immediately, of course he's coming up with hashtags, you know,
Speaker 7: balls to the walls.
Speaker 13: That's the first thing you do. This is what my
Speaker 13: tax payer money.
Speaker 7: Gun.
Speaker 1: It was a Sunday.
Speaker 13: I'm paying for balls hashtags. I mean, maybe buy the drinks.
Speaker 1: Okay, I got it. That guy.
Speaker 13: That's fun. Believe, enough of the distractions. Museum, where do
Speaker 13: we have to go?
Speaker 7: Well, you gotta go to a museum in contemporary art.
Speaker 7: Of course, the Art Institute's got the beautiful lions in
Speaker 7: front let's don't bring at the Field Museum, right, which
Speaker 7: the big actual history.
Speaker 13: There's culture in this town that you have to focus on.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, right Regular, I love it.
Speaker 13: We got great history.
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
Speaker 13: Alah. Walking into a bit of Chicago history is intoxicated.
Speaker 13: I can smell the stale hot dogs and tears of defeat.
Speaker 13: Look at this. Huh beautiful day to be here at Regular.
Speaker 7: Every day at is beautiful.
Speaker 13: Yes, okay, so no baseball today, no.
Speaker 7: But when this place is full, it is amazing.
Speaker 13: There it seems to be setting up for a concert.
Speaker 13: This is America's pastime, watching other people do work while you.
Speaker 1: Sit on your ear.
Speaker 13: Let's go, oh, road, Union Roadies, Let's go Union Roadies.
Speaker 13: That by the way, I have some parking tickets.
Speaker 4: Do you hear everything? I'm not happy as parking tickets.
Speaker 7: Sorry, I buy your beer.
Speaker 13: That's about I'll take it.
Speaker 3: Okay, if the door Welcome back Michigan Governor Gretchen will
Speaker 3: be doing on the show.
Speaker 4: I'm going as before, good body, Welcome back to the
Speaker 4: Gather Show.
Speaker 5: My guest to Night is a two term governor of
Speaker 5: Michigan and author of the best selling book True Gretch.
Speaker 5: Please welcome Michigan Governor, Gretchen Whitner.
Speaker 11: What aren't they great?
Speaker 5: All these all these people who love you aren't even
Speaker 5: legally allowed to vote for you. You're a Michigander. I'm
Speaker 5: a Michigander. It dawned on me today in this audience
Speaker 5: might not like this, but it dawned on me today
Speaker 5: that one of the best parts of Chicago is the lake,
Speaker 5: and one of the.
Speaker 1: Best parts of Chicago is Michigan.
Speaker 13: Right.
Speaker 5: No, I think one of the things people love about
Speaker 5: you is that you have grit, and you seem tough,
Speaker 5: and you talk.
Speaker 1: And you talk about this. You talk about this in
Speaker 1: your book.
Speaker 5: You talk about as a kid's someone pushed you down,
Speaker 5: knocked your teeth out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what age was that that that happened?
Speaker 6: It was about eighth grade. It was church camp.
Speaker 1: We're most.
Speaker 6: So much violence can happen in church.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then throughout your life, even in the chambers
Speaker 5: while people are voting, you would pop your teeth out
Speaker 5: to mess with them, right, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We have a picture of what sometimes, I mean, this
Speaker 1: was in the book. I love this. I mean it's like,
Speaker 1: what is that what is that picture?
Speaker 6: Where is that picture that was in high school. At
Speaker 6: some point I used to play in the Gusmacker Tournament,
Speaker 6: so three on three basketball, and I was eating a
Speaker 6: Tutsu roll on the way and both my teeth came
Speaker 6: out before the game. It was it was a base
Speaker 6: you know got in their brains.
Speaker 8: Is that.
Speaker 5: That's a physical toughness, But now in politics it feels
Speaker 5: more emotional toughness.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I think so. You know, one of the nicknames
Speaker 6: I've earned over the last few years is Big Wretch
Speaker 6: and my all time new favorite nickname. It used to
Speaker 6: be Gravity Gretchen because I fall down a lot, hence
Speaker 6: the teeth. But during during COVID I talked about in
Speaker 6: the book. But during COVID, you know when Donald Trump
Speaker 6: turned his ire to me because I observed there was
Speaker 6: not a national strategy. When he told us he's not
Speaker 6: a shipping clerk, we need to go find masks ourselves,
Speaker 6: he got mad and so turned his attention to me,
Speaker 6: and I started getting threats and all of that noise.
Speaker 6: And at some point someone on my staff said, you
Speaker 6: know that people are starting to call you Big Gretch, right,
Speaker 6: And I was like, what is this?
Speaker 5: Well, and we were listening to g Mac Cash's Big
Speaker 5: Gretch song Downstairs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so whole rap song with written value, which is
Speaker 1: pretty cool.
Speaker 6: It became a thing. You know, the people of Detroy
Speaker 6: bestowed this nickname on me because I was taken so
Speaker 6: much heat from the White House and doing what I
Speaker 6: could to save people. And so this is someone likened
Speaker 6: it to being bestowed a key to the city when
Speaker 6: the people Detroit give you a nickname like Big Grutch.
Speaker 5: On page on page two, the second page of your book,
Speaker 5: you talk about your grandmother Nino and how she said
Speaker 5: always look for the positive and people and I love
Speaker 5: this quote.
Speaker 1: It is even the meanest person might have pretty eyes.
Speaker 1: Is that a way to govern? I mean, is that
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people, maybe.
Speaker 5: Sadly, were introduced to you through through the kidnapping story.
Speaker 5: How do you see the positive in those people or
Speaker 5: in that situation?
Speaker 6: Canyon, Well, they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Speaker 1: So there's the positive.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I've learned so much in the last
Speaker 6: six years. When you get tested, you see what you're
Speaker 6: capable of and what you're made of, and you also
Speaker 6: know who you can count on and who you can trust,
Speaker 6: and so there's a lesson in every tough.
Speaker 1: Story, right, Yeah, and there's Yeah, you're the governor of
Speaker 1: the whole state.
Speaker 5: Your supporters love you, but there's people on the other
Speaker 5: side that maybe didn't vote for you, that are still
Speaker 5: mad about some COVID restrictions, that are having a hard
Speaker 5: time paying their mortgage.
Speaker 1: How do you bridge the gap with them? How do
Speaker 1: you speak to them? What do you say?
Speaker 6: I think it's showing up. You know, I know that
Speaker 6: I don't have every person's lived experience. I'm learning when
Speaker 6: I'm asking what can I do that'll make your life better?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 6: How do I govern in a way that gives you
Speaker 6: a path to prosperity or takes a barrier out of
Speaker 6: your way? I love to get around Michigan and ask
Speaker 6: that question. You know, if I'm lucky enough to get elected,
Speaker 6: what could I do for you? And people are not
Speaker 6: shy to tell you. When you ask, they will tell
Speaker 6: you things you never imagined. But over and over again,
Speaker 6: when you hear something that is recurring, this is a
Speaker 6: real problem that people, regardless of their politics, need me
Speaker 6: to solve. Fix the damn roads was the initial response.
Speaker 6: And that's why I'm so.
Speaker 5: Fold Yeah, A brilliant a brilliant platform because as a Michigander,
Speaker 5: I've said that to my too, right to whoever's listening,
Speaker 5: and apparently you were listening if you put it on
Speaker 5: a bus and your bus was listening. I have to
Speaker 5: ask you this because I don't often get the opportunity
Speaker 5: to sit down with the governor of Michigan. But as
Speaker 5: a Michigander myself, I love our Great Lakes. I love
Speaker 5: the twenty percent of the world's fresh.
Speaker 1: Water is sitting amongst us.
Speaker 5: I've lived in Los Angeles, I've toured through Arizona. They
Speaker 5: want our water, okay, And in all reality, what are you,
Speaker 5: as governor doing to protect our great lakes? Is this
Speaker 5: important to you?
Speaker 6: Absolutely so. The Great Lakes twenty one percent of the
Speaker 6: world's fresh surface water. This is a bit.
Speaker 1: I said twenty and she was like, it's twenty one.
Speaker 6: You heard that.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 6: So you know, I'm working hard to make sure that
Speaker 6: we protect the Great Legs and we make Michigan a
Speaker 6: place where people move to for opportunities. So I would
Speaker 6: welcome you to come back to Michigan. Yeah, enjoy the
Speaker 6: Legs and then maybe you and I can reenact the
Speaker 6: Klepper Pritzker barkrawl Yoh.
Speaker 1: That would be fun.
Speaker 5: I haven't gone drinking with Klepper, but I bet there
Speaker 5: might have been a bucket there where he was kind
Speaker 5: of like, you know, there's a lot of energy. There's
Speaker 5: a lot of energy for Kamala right now. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of momentum.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm fearful though, I'm fearful.
Speaker 5: That Democrats aren't thinking a few steps ahead. Trump is
Speaker 5: throwing his tantrums. He's mad that she's doing well. But
Speaker 5: you know, he's a Competitor's gonna he's gonna pivot. He's
Speaker 5: gonna come back with something or the strategizing many steps ahead.
Speaker 6: I believe. So, But what are you anticipating?
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you getting you thinking.
Speaker 6: I do in a couple of weeks. I mean, I
Speaker 6: think he's sitting at home watching the energy, the enthusiasm,
Speaker 6: the optimism that's going to come out of this week,
Speaker 6: and I think it's going to hurt his brain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it is. It is, Okay, Okay, let's hope
Speaker 1: that happens.
Speaker 5: Let's prepare for him to get his head on straight
Speaker 5: and stop throwing a tantrum like a four year old.
Speaker 1: He's talking like a four year old. Eventually they calm
Speaker 1: down and they figure out the weak spot.
Speaker 5: So I'm just hoping the Dems are are you are
Speaker 5: you you're a co chair on Kamala's campaign or I mean,
Speaker 5: how does that?
Speaker 1: Are you strategizing? Are you talking long term?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean this is Michigan. Is Michigan, right, There's Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan.
Speaker 6: These are the swingiest of states, and we are going
Speaker 6: to decide the outcome of this election. We got to
Speaker 6: show up, We got to do the work. We got
Speaker 6: to be in all eighty three counties. We cannot write
Speaker 6: off a place because looks Republican in past elections. We're
Speaker 6: going to show up and we're going to pull people
Speaker 6: in because this is.
Speaker 5: Show up showing up after that, Yeah, yeah, you talk
Speaker 5: and hear a lot about your gratitude journal, which I love,
Speaker 5: be specific you with what you're thankful for what you do.
Speaker 5: But sometimes do you ever just write down super annoying shit?
Speaker 5: You know, you've had some bad stuff that's happened. Do
Speaker 5: you ever just write down, well that does this suck?
Speaker 5: Today's people try to kidnap me.
Speaker 6: It's tempting, it's tempting, but no, but there are some
Speaker 6: days where it says, my dog's my bed in tequila.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, you have rot in hoods. Yet, let's talk
Speaker 1: about humor.
Speaker 5: You know, this is a comedy show. I grew up
Speaker 5: in a big family. No one ever said I love
Speaker 5: you and my family, but you teased, you poked fun.
Speaker 5: And when I read and listened to your book, I
Speaker 5: love the audio version as well.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of.
Speaker 5: Humor and it just comes naturally for you. Is this
Speaker 5: something that is embedded in you from an early age
Speaker 5: as a kid. Is it something you've worked on.
Speaker 6: I think both my folks were really funny, and humor
Speaker 6: is a great way to I think relief stress, diffuse
Speaker 6: a tough, tense situation if you can find a laugh.
Speaker 6: And my mother was kind of the queen of gallows humor.
Speaker 6: Even in the darkest day she died of brain cancer,
Speaker 6: and even in the darkest day she was, she could
Speaker 6: find the light. She could make us laugh. And I
Speaker 6: think it's just such a powerful way to find common ground.
Speaker 6: That's why I love I love being on your show
Speaker 6: with you.
Speaker 1: I love that last thing, you know, I told you
Speaker 1: that a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 5: My daughter, who's four, got pushed by another girl at
Speaker 5: camp and had a black eye, and I was really
Speaker 5: sad and I was upset about it.
Speaker 1: And then I read your book and I said, holy shit,
Speaker 1: my daughter is going to be the governor of Michigan.
Speaker 1: True gretch is available now, Governor versus Whitmer. Let me
Speaker 1: take a quick bake wet way back after this.
Speaker 11: Thank you so so much.
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