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Speaker 1: Hi. Welcome to The Daily Show. Why Ronnie Shang? We
Speaker 1: got so much talk about tonight, So let's get right
Speaker 1: into today's top story. I know you goddamn hippies like
Speaker 1: the Brave blame Donald Trump for everything up in the country,
Speaker 1: but hey, not everything that happens is his fault. He
Speaker 1: has a whole administration that can up for him. So
Speaker 1: let's find out the laatest in our new segment, The
Speaker 1: Worst Wing. What a bunch of losers. By now, we
Speaker 1: all know the story about how Trump's team included a
Speaker 1: reporter in their war planning group chat, and we don't
Speaker 1: need to hear it again, but it is super funny,
Speaker 1: So let's hear about it again this morning Forum.
Speaker 4: From that stunning lapse in national security, Secretary of Defense
Speaker 4: Pete Hegseth, along with other top members of President Trump's
Speaker 4: national security team, sharing details about a planned large scale
Speaker 4: attack on Yemen earlier this month on the commercial message
Speaker 4: app Signal and inadvertently including journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. On that chain,
Speaker 4: heg Seth shared operational details of forthcoming strikes, weapons deploying,
Speaker 4: and attack sequencing.
Speaker 5: Goldberg also reported that when it comes to security, we
Speaker 5: are currently clean on opsec. That's the acronym used for
Speaker 5: operational security.
Speaker 1: Oh haha, ha ha. You think that's funny, don't you
Speaker 1: that the stupid secretary Defense is so stupid and all
Speaker 1: drunk that he texted or clean on opsec when there's
Speaker 1: a reporter right in the group chat. Yeah, well, laugh
Speaker 1: it up, people, because unlike you, I have human empathy
Speaker 1: for these people who are just trying their best to
Speaker 1: kill other humans, all right, And I guarantee that if
Speaker 1: anyone in this audience had that group chats leaked, it
Speaker 1: would ruin every single one of your lives. I personally
Speaker 1: have chats that are actually more sensitive than a missoll
Speaker 1: attack on the Hoho thies. Okay, if you told me
Speaker 1: that my group chats leaked and then told me it
Speaker 1: was just my misottack one, I'd be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: thank god, thank got it. And by the way, it
Speaker 1: wasn't even Pete Hegseth who added him. It was some
Speaker 1: other incompetent guy at the highest levels of government. Okay,
Speaker 1: like you think heg Seth has the editor of the
Speaker 1: Atlantic magazine saved in his phone? No way, all right?
Speaker 1: If heg Seth alto filled the contact into a group chat,
Speaker 1: it would be like Tampa Bay blonde with bugs bunny tattoo.
Speaker 1: But still you gotta ask, how did this happen? I mean,
Speaker 1: don't you guys have tech support in the government. I
Speaker 1: mean what, oh, oh, okay, well, okay, well, if you
Speaker 1: asked me, adding a reporter wasn't even the most embarrassing
Speaker 1: thing to happen on this group chat.
Speaker 4: According to Goldberg, the administration officials reacting after the strikes excellent,
Speaker 4: a good start. Waltz even sending several emojis?
Speaker 1: Is anyone else kind of upset that we're conducting war
Speaker 1: by emoji?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: I mean, what what does this even mean?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fist the flag and then lighted on fire.
Speaker 1: Like there's a reason why you don't use emojis for
Speaker 1: life and death situations. It's too open to interpretation. Okay,
Speaker 1: Like imagine if your doctor texted you a crab emoji, right,
Speaker 1: and now you're going, oh my god, I have crabs
Speaker 1: and your doctor has to be like, lol, no, it's
Speaker 1: the astrology sign for cancer. So you have cancer. But
Speaker 1: now everyone is yelling at them about this breach of
Speaker 1: national security or whatever, and the Department of Defense is
Speaker 1: having trouble defending themselves. Luckily, all of MAGA is there
Speaker 1: to help them come to argument one. Nobody's perfect.
Speaker 7: Well there's a mistake.
Speaker 8: You know, we make mistakes.
Speaker 9: We all make mistakes, and that happens.
Speaker 1: You look at a mistake and we got to move on.
Speaker 10: Well, it was a mistake.
Speaker 6: Like I said before, it was a mistake.
Speaker 11: Everyone makes mistakes.
Speaker 12: Is that sufficient accountability to you to recognize that someone
Speaker 12: made a mistake and moving on?
Speaker 9: Because I don't see that same standard being held.
Speaker 11: Baris, people the sound bite already.
Speaker 9: I gave you the sound bite already.
Speaker 1: Boris, I gave you the sound bite. Stop asking follow
Speaker 1: up questions. If I wanted to talk to a journalist,
Speaker 1: I'd be on a private group chat with petere Haig
Speaker 1: sat So cut it out, Like, come on, what we're
Speaker 1: just calling this a mistake now, Like look, my door
Speaker 1: dasher for getting straws is a mistake that can be
Speaker 1: rectified with one star and no tip. Okay, but this
Speaker 1: feels like a major up and the acting like nobody
Speaker 1: will care about this, and honestly, they're probably rights. I mean,
Speaker 1: nothing seems to matter anymore anyway, and everyone will forget
Speaker 1: this in a few days when Trump sends the new
Speaker 1: snow White to Gitmo. And even if they didn't accidentally
Speaker 1: add a journalist into this group chat, they weren't supposed
Speaker 1: to be talking about this stuff on Signal in the
Speaker 1: first place. Okay, Signal might be a good app for
Speaker 1: you and me and a local drug dealer, but it's
Speaker 1: not for the Pentagon to plan wars.
Speaker 11: On One former White House official told Politico their personal
Speaker 11: phones are all hackable, and it's highly likely that foreign
Speaker 11: intelligence services are sitting on their phones watching them type
Speaker 11: the shit out.
Speaker 1: That's right, Foreign adversaries could be watching whatever Pete Hegseth
Speaker 1: types into his phone, like bar near me or how
Speaker 1: to fool breathtalyzer or how to uncrash cars. But if
Speaker 1: you're not satisfied with it was just a mistake, they
Speaker 1: have another defense. It was just a mistake that was awesome.
Speaker 7: The bigger takeaway for me is it's an insight, a
Speaker 7: transparent insight into the thought process and dialogue of our
Speaker 7: national leaders. If you read the content of these messages,
Speaker 7: I think you'll come away proud that these are the
Speaker 7: leaders making these decisions in America.
Speaker 5: What you did see, though, I think, was top level
Speaker 5: officials doing their job, doing it well, and executing on
Speaker 5: a plan with a precision.
Speaker 1: Wait for precision. I mean even your texts weren't hitting
Speaker 1: the intended targets all right, Like forget the who thies.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you didn't accidentally blow up HOODI and a blowfish.
Speaker 1: This is like if your sex tape leaked and you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you saw all of it. Okay, this proves
Speaker 1: my dick works. By the way, Mike Johnson, if you're
Speaker 1: watching a sex tape is when two people love each
Speaker 1: other very much, but they also want to masturbate later.
Speaker 1: Just to summarize, the Trump administration admitted this happened, but
Speaker 1: it was a small mistake, and it was a good
Speaker 1: thing that happened. But also, what if the reporter made
Speaker 1: the whole thing up?
Speaker 6: Not a good reporter.
Speaker 13: Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic, one of the biggest fokes
Speaker 13: artists around.
Speaker 1: It happened to know the guy's in total sleeves burg.
Speaker 1: The Atlantic.
Speaker 9: The Atlantic is a failed magazine does very very poorly.
Speaker 12: You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so called
Speaker 12: journalist who's made a profession of pedaling hoaxes time and
Speaker 12: time again. This is the guy that pedals in garbage.
Speaker 1: Right, So this reporter who is dishonest and sucks is
Speaker 1: also correct. And also we added him to our group
Speaker 1: chat because he's a fun hang. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: use it was a mistake and it was fake news.
Speaker 1: You gotta pick one, Okay, you gotta get together and
Speaker 1: figure it out. Okay, but not in a group chat.
Speaker 1: No more group chats. But you know, but you know,
Speaker 1: you know what. All's well, that ends well. The good
Speaker 1: news is that no one got hurt except for the
Speaker 1: people of Yemen, and I guess it will be okay
Speaker 1: as long as everyone involved learned their lesson.
Speaker 9: Peter exit questions.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if you know the answer.
Speaker 12: Are they ever gonna use signal again for something like this?
Speaker 1: It seems like yes they will.
Speaker 13: Okay, good enough.
Speaker 1: Okay, good enough, yep, good good good good. We solved
Speaker 1: it good. Of course, everyone is wondering what the scandal
Speaker 1: means for America's national security under Donald Trump, But there's
Speaker 1: another important question, what does it mean for journalism? And
Speaker 1: the answer is something that's gonna make a great movie.
Speaker 10: Last time the president broke in Watergate, this time he's
Speaker 10: going to steal the whole damn hotel I got.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that.
Speaker 10: It's not about what you believe, It's about the truth.
Speaker 1: Okay, little intense reporting.
Speaker 10: This story will take all the skills you have.
Speaker 8: Right, I'm going to hit the streets, work the phones,
Speaker 8: meet sources at underground parking garages. Oh wait, the President
Speaker 8: just added me to a group chat. I have the
Speaker 8: whole thing right here.
Speaker 10: What No, that's too easy. I got you this whole disguise.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't need it. It's all here, break in plans,
Speaker 8: cover up payments.
Speaker 1: Whoa what it's a lot of dick pics.
Speaker 10: But we have a source in a trench coat.
Speaker 1: Follow the money. Yeah, we don't need to. They posted
Speaker 1: the checks.
Speaker 5: Ah, a lot of dick pics.
Speaker 10: This doesn't make sense. Why would they just add you
Speaker 10: to Oh they added me to After we steal the hotel,
Speaker 10: let's bomb emoji around flag emoji. Then we all rain
Speaker 10: spurt emoji bitches, do you.
Speaker 8: Even have to write this story?
Speaker 10: I think we can just put out the screenshots.
Speaker 8: That doesn't really sound like work.
Speaker 10: Maybe if you put on the disguise.
Speaker 8: Yeah this is better drinks.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a lot of dicks.
Speaker 1: There are the oscars. Now, when we come back, Jordan
Speaker 1: and I get mad about much madness.
Speaker 2: Don't go well, Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: I think I speak for everyone when I say politics
Speaker 1: rules and sports rules. For a full recap of the
Speaker 1: biggest stories in the world of jocks and straps, we
Speaker 1: turned to Sports War Ready for.
Speaker 7: You by Gambly Cambly.
Speaker 13: Dear, all right, what's something I'm not sum right, Shad,
Speaker 13: and I'm Jordan Klepper. This is Sports War, the show
Speaker 13: where we are legally not allowed to agree with each other.
Speaker 13: For example, if I say that athletes should be allowed
Speaker 13: to take steroids to get.
Speaker 1: Bigger, then I say that athletes should be getting smaller
Speaker 1: like a man. I want teeny tiny little athletes.
Speaker 9: That's nuts, Ronnie, Come on, how would they even pick
Speaker 9: up a basketball?
Speaker 1: Ants can lift fifty times that body weight. Try culturing
Speaker 1: yourself and watching a Marvel movie, you moron.
Speaker 9: I watched your Marvel movie.
Speaker 1: What was it called? Right, nobody remembers, Oh really, well,
Speaker 1: how many Marvel movies will you?
Speaker 9: And I'm more of a theater guy, thank you very much.
Speaker 9: Himisde or something like that. Anyway, let's start things off
Speaker 9: with March Madness, the time of year when people yell
Speaker 9: Gonzaga and not just during orgasm. But this year, the
Speaker 9: odds of March didn't bring much of the madness.
Speaker 10: It's actually been an oddly team start to March Madness.
Speaker 1: We didn't get those typical upsets that were used to it.
Speaker 1: The top four seeds in each region a combined sixteen
Speaker 1: oh in the first round for the first time since
Speaker 1: two thy Seventeen of the.
Speaker 5: First thirty two games in the first round twenty were
Speaker 5: won by double digits.
Speaker 1: Wow, just like Jordan over here, this year's tournament. So okay,
Speaker 1: we get it, we get it, we get it. Okayck
Speaker 1: where's the drama? Where's the crazy upsets? The only reason
Speaker 1: I watched these games is to see dupe fans crying
Speaker 1: to the ascods. Well, my Cinderella stories ad usually there's
Speaker 1: at least one fairy tale underdog with a starting lineup
Speaker 1: of guys that all have hot conditions and whose team
Speaker 1: is just integrated for the first time.
Speaker 9: Ronnie, I can't tell which is more busted, your bracket
Speaker 9: or your face. Look, this has been an incredible tournament.
Speaker 9: I only want to watch major colleges, not some team
Speaker 9: like Mount Sinai Bumfrey getting shell lack by a top
Speaker 9: dog in the Sweet sixteen. Honestly, this is the most
Speaker 9: excited I've been for Sweet sixteen since Ronnie's King Senira.
Speaker 1: Okay Kinsinnira is at fifteen pendejo also ni ken Sandeira,
Speaker 1: moi excellante.
Speaker 9: Oh that layover in Madrid did some wonders, Ronnie, Which
Speaker 9: brings us to our super Sweet sixteen Better than night
Speaker 9: which college mascot will be the first to do over
Speaker 9: The pants stuff at the Sweet sixteen as always brought
Speaker 9: to you by Gambling, It's the fun way to sell
Speaker 9: your house.
Speaker 1: Moving on, despite the lack of March Madness upsets, there
Speaker 1: was one Cinderella story that the entire world could get behind.
Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest stars of March Madness.
Speaker 12: In the men's side, isn't even a player twelve seed
Speaker 12: McNeese state Cinderella run is over, but.
Speaker 9: People fell in love with their student manager, Amir Khan
Speaker 9: aka Ara.
Speaker 12: He's like their hype man popularity, reportedly landing a mer
Speaker 12: at least ten nil deals with major brands, earning into
Speaker 12: the six figures.
Speaker 13: Con going viral this season for leading his team out
Speaker 13: to play carrying a boombox.
Speaker 1: CO love this kid.
Speaker 9: Aura Khan deserves these endorsement deals because he's done the impossible.
Speaker 9: He put mcneise on the map before con, I thought
Speaker 9: mcneise was the name of the third Kulkin brother. Now
Speaker 9: now I know it's the best school in the state
Speaker 9: of I want to say, mcneise.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Jordan, did your brain tear its acl? Okay,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be giving an equipment manager endorsement deals. It's
Speaker 1: against the natural order of things. The jocks get the
Speaker 1: endorsement deals and the glory and the girls and the
Speaker 1: nerds get to get beat up by the jocks, then
Speaker 1: start social media companies that warp the brains of the jocks.
Speaker 1: They eventually vote against their own interests, which brings us
Speaker 1: to my bracket buster Better than Night, which random nerd
Speaker 1: will get an endorsement deal. Next brought to you by
Speaker 1: Gambling Gambling as Thomas Jefferson once said it ain't gay
Speaker 1: if it's a pallay. Now it's time for our Sports
Speaker 1: War halftime report with Grace Coolansmith.
Speaker 3: Thanks Ronnie. So far it's been a pretty underwhelming performance.
Speaker 1: By both hosts.
Speaker 3: There is one major upset to report. I'm very upset
Speaker 3: I had to witness this. But now I'd like to
Speaker 3: give everyone an update on the NCAA Women's basketball Tournament's Grace.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to the line to girl anyway.
Speaker 3: Whoa.
Speaker 6: Moving on?
Speaker 9: From the balls on the court to balls off the court,
Speaker 9: away from the basketball arena. It's a different kind of
Speaker 9: March Madness is.
Speaker 14: Underway every year around this time. Doctor sees surgeon men
Speaker 14: scheduling vasectomies. Men figure if they're going to be laid
Speaker 14: up on the couch for a couple of days, it
Speaker 14: might as well be in a time when there's something
Speaker 14: to watch on TV, like forty eight basketball games in
Speaker 14: four days. You all just start catching on, even offering
Speaker 14: deals with slogans like it's hip to get sniffed. Others
Speaker 14: offer basketball shaped ice packs.
Speaker 1: Bravo, Bravo, I love dudes. This is exactly what the
Speaker 1: secondomy is all about watching sports alone with a bag
Speaker 1: of frozen peas on your junk. I mean me, I'm
Speaker 1: on my eleventh vasectomy this year. Is that why you
Speaker 1: missed my wedding?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 1: I missed it because I don't like to see you happy.
Speaker 9: Okay, look much like your pnis. Your argument is completely mangled. Look,
Speaker 9: these vasectomies are a disaster. If people are having vasectomies,
Speaker 9: they aren't having kids. If people aren't having kids, then
Speaker 9: those kids aren't playing sports. And if they're not playing sports,
Speaker 9: then I can't bet on their little league games. Now
Speaker 9: I look like a psycho betting on little league games
Speaker 9: when there's no children on the field. I'm not a psycho, Ronnie.
Speaker 1: I just need a little artload to bet over five
Speaker 1: hundred so Daddy can get back to even which brings
Speaker 1: me too. By Ballbuster Better than Night?
Speaker 9: Will the Bakersfield Junior Astros score more than twenty two
Speaker 9: runs in the Pee Week quarterfinals? Brought to you by gambling?
Speaker 9: It's like a vasectomy for your wallet.
Speaker 1: Did before we go, let's strow it back to Grace
Speaker 1: for a postgame report.
Speaker 3: Thanks, Ronnie. Looking at the numbers, we had three swear
Speaker 3: words seventeen dick jokes and two men wasting what little
Speaker 3: life they have left. And now quick update on the
Speaker 3: women's brackets. All the tiers.
Speaker 9: Join us next week when we debate whether Vanessa Trump
Speaker 9: would look better with Tiger Woods or Tony the Tiger.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's hard to say, Jordan. Tony the Tiger is
Speaker 1: a massive dom All right, I've seen it. Bring these
Speaker 1: Sirial's naked. Hi, Welcome back to the Daily Show. My
Speaker 1: guest tonight is the first woman, first Asian, first, Michelle
Speaker 1: to be elected mayor Boston. Please welcome Mayor Michelle ro
Speaker 1: standing ovation, no standing ovation in New York. Well, the
Speaker 1: mayor of Boston. That's very hot to get. That's the
Speaker 1: first time I love you. I don't usually make demographics
Speaker 1: such a big deal, but like, how did you become mayor?
Speaker 6: You know many days Boston of Boston. I asked myself
Speaker 6: that question too.
Speaker 1: Well, what's the answer.
Speaker 15: So I grew up in an immigrant family, and it
Speaker 15: was never ever in the list of things that you
Speaker 15: were supposed to think about or do. I just did
Speaker 15: what my parents wanted, worked hard, played piano, played badminton,
Speaker 15: did all the things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, went to law school.
Speaker 15: So I found my way to Boston for school, and
Speaker 15: in the midst of all that, my mom began to
Speaker 15: really struggle with men health challenges. So I found myself
Speaker 15: in my early twenties raising my two younger sisters, taking
Speaker 15: care of my mom. And Boston has really given me
Speaker 15: everything that I cherish in my life. The healthcare that
Speaker 15: saved my mom's life, the schools that helped me and
Speaker 15: my family get to where we are, and now I
Speaker 15: get to raise my family with my husband, Connor. We
Speaker 15: have two boys in the schools, a two month old
Speaker 15: little old girl. And Okay, it's the best city in
Speaker 15: the world.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's okay. That's great. First of all, first of
Speaker 1: all New York forever. And second of all, so how
Speaker 1: did you become the male Boston instead of answered, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've been to Boston, but this is
Speaker 1: not the demographic for mayor of Boston. Like, you came
Speaker 1: to my show when I was there, while I was
Speaker 1: doing stand up there. You were very nicely change so
Speaker 1: shows at wilbur not the brag and you can't. And
Speaker 1: my DJ was there. My DJ is like a Chicago
Speaker 1: Korean American guy, and I was like, oh, that's the
Speaker 1: male of Boston, and he was like, what, you.
Speaker 15: Might be surprised by Boston. Next time you come, we'll
Speaker 15: have to take you around a little more.
Speaker 1: But how did you convince these guys we're an.
Speaker 15: Incredibly diverse, welcoming, beautiful city. We are, we are a
Speaker 15: majority people of color, we're twenty eight percent people born
Speaker 15: from another country, and Boston is a place where people
Speaker 15: have always come for almost four hundred years.
Speaker 6: To make good in the world. But also, okay, don't
Speaker 6: don't make me go against New York are better sports teams, no.
Speaker 1: Matter they gave you a standing openship, Why did you No, No,
Speaker 1: this isn't about New York business. This is not about
Speaker 1: Newopic's Boston, because New York is clearly better I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, no, no, no, it's not about that. It's
Speaker 1: not about who's a better city, which we clearly are.
Speaker 1: It's more that how did you get those guys to
Speaker 1: vote for you, because that's this is not the demographic
Speaker 1: that how did you convince them to put you in charge.
Speaker 15: I've been through a lot with my family, and in
Speaker 15: those hardest moments, it often felt like government was the
Speaker 15: place we had to fight against instead of something to
Speaker 15: help us through, you know, in the middle of the
Speaker 15: emergency room or trying to navigate the school system. And
Speaker 15: there are so many families out there who are working
Speaker 15: their hardest, trying to do their best, and in many ways,
Speaker 15: we just have to make sure that the supports that
Speaker 15: are needed are not only there funded, but also connected
Speaker 15: to every community.
Speaker 6: That's what I've been fighting for. I got to serve
Speaker 6: on the city council for eight years and.
Speaker 1: That's our fare. Okay, but right now it feels like everyone,
Speaker 1: you know, politicians, Everyone hates politicians now more than ever,
Speaker 1: Like why did you get Like what made you want
Speaker 1: to put yourself out there to get into this? You know,
Speaker 1: it's a thankless job.
Speaker 6: It's not a new thing. I would say.
Speaker 15: I remember all the time growing up, my parents would
Speaker 15: say to me and my siblings, we hate the mayor
Speaker 15: in Mandarin, like when you become when you grow up,
Speaker 15: get a job that pays well, is very stable and
Speaker 15: won't get you in trouble. So I've now been drag
Speaker 15: before Congress, threatened with criminal prosecution, working really hard.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, this is where
Speaker 6: it matters.
Speaker 15: All of the programs that we put in place, to
Speaker 15: keep the streets clean, to make our schools actually supportive
Speaker 15: for our students, to protect people in our communities in
Speaker 15: a really scary moment.
Speaker 6: That is what city government is for sure. And so.
Speaker 1: Again, like you, I think you won your last election.
Speaker 1: I sixty four percent of the vote, was that right?
Speaker 1: So you're incredibly popular in Boston and they trust you
Speaker 1: to run the city. How did you convince these Boston people?
Speaker 6: How hard do I have to say it? I ran
Speaker 6: to make sure that families would have a place.
Speaker 1: Why you believe you?
Speaker 6: And you back it up with work.
Speaker 15: Every day that I started on the city Council, I
Speaker 15: was out in neighborhood meetings. I was writing policies that
Speaker 15: we now have in place to protect our communities and
Speaker 15: give people opportunity. And it's about making sure that everyone
Speaker 15: feels part of the decisions that are being made.
Speaker 1: Okay, you see this optimism.
Speaker 15: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: So you became mayor of Boston at like thirty six,
Speaker 1: which is pretty insane.
Speaker 6: Like that's it's like, you know, how the you're saying
Speaker 6: I did just turn forty?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I know You're born in the same year.
Speaker 1: So I'm like damn this, this woman became a mayor already.
Speaker 1: I'm still here telling dig jokes, but like this, no
Speaker 1: matter like something about Boston. You're like the youngest successful
Speaker 1: Boston person running Boston since like the old Epstein, the
Speaker 1: best of the Epsteins, he was like the youngest gm
Speaker 1: of I don't know why they trusted you. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you're very good at your job. What's the toughest
Speaker 1: thing you facing Boston?
Speaker 6: Boston is a very passionate city.
Speaker 15: We cheer hard for our sports teams, and people look
Speaker 15: at politics and government and being involved in themmunity the
Speaker 15: same way. And it's pretty hard to make the greatest
Speaker 15: city on Earth even better. But we are working every
Speaker 15: day to make sure that housing costs can be brought down.
Speaker 1: You're running the day to day of the city rights.
Speaker 1: What's the hottest thing day to day like mayoring in Boston.
Speaker 6: I think it's that.
Speaker 15: People have a lot to say and everyone's voice has
Speaker 15: a place in our community. And when you have so
Speaker 15: many decisions that come after a long history also of
Speaker 15: being a place where for four hundred years people have
Speaker 15: stood up for the right thing, fought hard to make
Speaker 15: a difference. Finding that consensus is complicated, it's beautiful. It's
Speaker 15: a hard job. You can't fake it in Boston. People
Speaker 15: will call you out. So you have to show up
Speaker 15: everywhere and keep working. And it's a hard job, but
Speaker 15: it's the best job.
Speaker 1: And I love it, okay, So like you, I just
Speaker 1: all right? So right now, you know you as a
Speaker 1: Democrat as well. Democrats, I don't know if you've seen
Speaker 1: the news lately, incredibly unpopular in this country. I could
Speaker 1: not be less popular. Everyone hates everything they're doing. So
Speaker 1: how do you everyone hates that, Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the tempercent popular, whatever it is, it's horrible. How
Speaker 1: do you, as a Democratic mayor like do outreach to
Speaker 1: what I assume is a large percentage of your constituency
Speaker 1: that probably voted Republican and MAGA and Trump.
Speaker 15: Yeah, we have a lot of different views in Boston,
Speaker 15: Like in every community, I think we tend to be
Speaker 15: a place that speaks our mind and remembers our history
Speaker 15: as the community that's always invested in the greater good.
Speaker 15: We're home to the first public school in the country,
Speaker 15: the first public park, the first library free and open
Speaker 15: to all, and so you know, at the end of
Speaker 15: the day, we might not vote the same way, or
Speaker 15: worship the same way, or watch the same type of shows,
Speaker 15: or follow the same influencers or whatever. But you still
Speaker 15: want your streets to have potholes filled, you want your
Speaker 15: kids to go to the best schools, and you can't
Speaker 15: get away at the local level with just talking the talk.
Speaker 6: You really have to be out there making different.
Speaker 1: So you're saying you outreach by focusing on doing the work,
Speaker 1: doing the work that everyone agrees that should be done.
Speaker 1: Is that your method for success? Actually? Just yeah, doing
Speaker 1: the work? Yeah, so that's actually what you found. I'm
Speaker 1: genuinely curious. How I know you don't find it weird.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you most people watching this are like, how
Speaker 1: the hell?
Speaker 6: Let me tell Okay, let me tell you a little
Speaker 6: bit more about Boston.
Speaker 1: You didn't tell you Boston. Boston is my childhood Chinatown. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know Boston, Yeah, you grew I used to live
Speaker 1: in Manchester, New Hampshire. You drive to Boston for that
Speaker 1: was like a local Chinatown. We'll go there for supplies
Speaker 1: to bring it back to New Hampshire. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you know, there's not a lot of Malaysian grocery
Speaker 1: stores in Manchester, New Hampshire, so we would go to
Speaker 1: Boston to get it. So I know, I know Boston
Speaker 1: that's not even more surprised that you became.
Speaker 15: So Boston even today is probably different from those days.
Speaker 15: We are the safest major city in the country and
Speaker 15: it's thank you. But our historically low crime levels now
Speaker 15: we're at the lowest levels in at least seventy years
Speaker 15: when we first started reliably tracking. And that has come
Speaker 15: at the same time that we have invested the most
Speaker 15: in affordable housing, created more affordable housing than in twenty
Speaker 15: five years, invested in the most ever, young people in
Speaker 15: paid summer jobs, early college, build care.
Speaker 1: Do you think people are feeling this on the streets
Speaker 1: in Boston.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of.
Speaker 15: Work to do everywhere, but I think generally we want
Speaker 15: everyone to be involved. In Boston, we talk about where
Speaker 15: we've been, where we need to go, and there's a
Speaker 15: neighborhood meeting every other day or multiple of days.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for hopping on about this because I
Speaker 1: obviously a very popular in Boston. My thing right now
Speaker 1: is I'm wondering where if I can get a Democrat
Speaker 1: who's actually popular, which is very rare in this country.
Speaker 1: Every time I get to sit to someone who actually
Speaker 1: it seems like both sides of both tribes seem to
Speaker 1: get behind, such as yourself, I kind of focus on
Speaker 1: the kind of the outreach to the other tribe more so.
Speaker 1: For example, if someone was to tell you, you know,
Speaker 1: like recently got I guess you got testified in Congress
Speaker 1: about sanctuary cities, you know, which is one issue in
Speaker 1: many things, and you defended yourself. Well, what do you
Speaker 1: say to the people who uh in your constituency who
Speaker 1: might feel like, hey, why are we doing this? What's
Speaker 1: the big deal with this sanctuary city thing? If people
Speaker 1: are illegally in the country, shouldn't we arrest them and
Speaker 1: get rid of them? What is the big deal?
Speaker 15: Yeah, we are again, we're the safest city because we're
Speaker 15: safe for everyone in a community where over a court
Speaker 15: of your residence come from.
Speaker 6: We're born in another country.
Speaker 15: If people are afraid to drop their kids off at
Speaker 15: school or call nine one one when they need help,
Speaker 15: or share information when they actually haven't information to report
Speaker 15: about a crime that happened, that makes everyone less safe.
Speaker 15: Whether or not you are an immigrant, whether or not
Speaker 15: you're here in this country, six generations or just arrived.
Speaker 15: So we're really focused on being that home for everyone.
Speaker 15: And it's worked, and so all of the buzz around
Speaker 15: you know, whether these kinds of cities that are more
Speaker 15: welcoming for immigrants are more dangerous. It's about a false
Speaker 15: narrative that immigrants are somehow more likely to commit crimes
Speaker 15: or cause harm, and that is just simply not true.
Speaker 15: We know that in our city where our immigrant communities are,
Speaker 15: entrepreneurs are holding up our health, the best hospitals in
Speaker 15: the country, the universities and jobs that we all rely on,
Speaker 15: and in order to make sure that we can keep
Speaker 15: that progress going, everyone has to feel part of it.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 15: I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean with these I don't know whether these people
Speaker 1: from Boston or something. I don't know what's happening as
Speaker 1: people came from Boston. So what advice would you give
Speaker 1: to the Democrats running now about how to not be
Speaker 1: such loosers? All like connected, the connected the people more.
Speaker 1: It seems like that seems I don't know. I I
Speaker 1: truly don't understand what's happening because every day on this
Speaker 1: show we talk about some bullshit that happened, and then
Speaker 1: nothing seems to matter, and then I guess nothing matters anymore.
Speaker 1: So's there's clearly a disconnect between the Democrat Party or
Speaker 1: maybe politics in general. If you're being generous and the
Speaker 1: common people, right, there's some kind of there's something weird
Speaker 1: happening like that.
Speaker 15: Feel that way, yeah, And I mean in some ways
Speaker 15: my entire life, I've felt that way. In my family
Speaker 15: growing up with immigrant parents, government was scary. Government was
Speaker 15: the thing you're supposed to stay away from. It was
Speaker 15: parking tickets and taxes and all sorts of things that
Speaker 15: you know, just try to do your do your thing
Speaker 15: and stay out of trouble.
Speaker 1: And now you're the government.
Speaker 15: But I got into it because this is how to
Speaker 15: make a difference, And you can change people's lives every
Speaker 15: single day by just doing the work, by trying your
Speaker 15: hardest to focus on what is stressing out the residents
Speaker 15: in your community and day by day building on it
Speaker 15: to turn that around, involving people in the conversation and
Speaker 15: becoming a city where again we are home for everyone.
Speaker 6: And I think that's what it comes down to.
Speaker 15: If we do the work, if we listen to what
Speaker 15: people are saying about what's challenging in their lives, and
Speaker 15: we really focus on not just today but tomorrow and
Speaker 15: the generations to come after us. That is the legacy
Speaker 15: of Boston, and that's the legacy that I'm really proud
Speaker 15: to be able to carry on every day.
Speaker 1: Okay, So well, look, I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can be become the male of Boston maybe you know,
Speaker 1: one of arguably the most racist cities in America, then
Speaker 1: maybe there's hope for everyone. Yet, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 15: I hear that there's a next time you come to Boston,
Speaker 15: you're gonna have to schedule an extra day and then
Speaker 15: I will take you around all the.
Speaker 6: City and then get young. We are and city, Yeah,
Speaker 6: and we're a city.
Speaker 15: That really is the example of how everyone in our community,
Speaker 15: again majority people of color, you can all.
Speaker 1: Get together and tell immigration. I don't know. I got
Speaker 1: a lot of love for Boston. I just you know,
Speaker 1: they were they were nice to me when I was there.
Speaker 1: But there is a stereotype of the city which you
Speaker 1: are totally. I don't know. So I don't know how.
Speaker 1: I still don't understand how you got elected. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you're good at your job and you're charming and
Speaker 1: all that. But that was enough for them to convince them.
Speaker 15: The Boston of today is a different city than a
Speaker 15: lot of people think. But even in the Boston today,
Speaker 15: we have a lot of work to do, just like
Speaker 15: every city, just like every community.
Speaker 1: But no New York City is perfect. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if you've been out there this place. This place is great.
Speaker 1: We got you know, we got rats and feces. I
Speaker 1: hear that there's a I hear that there's like a
Speaker 1: secret WhatsApp group of Asian mayors. I met the mayor
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, A very small group.
Speaker 6: Yes having me.
Speaker 1: Can I join this group?
Speaker 6: Chat for.
Speaker 1: Me? I hope you guys out? Okay, No, your mayle Wolf,
Speaker 1: they're the baths. Thank you for representing all Asians. Thank
Speaker 1: you for making a city of Boston great. Appreciate all
Speaker 1: you do. I know it's a very thankless task. Boston
Speaker 1: Mayor Michelle Woo everybody. So I gotta take a quick break,
Speaker 1: but we be right back after this. Hey, that's I'll
Speaker 1: show over tonight. Here it is your.
Speaker 16: Moment of bed so like that's a fist American flag fire.
Speaker 16: So I'll just from now on when we do things
Speaker 16: where like, we agree, I'll just hold this up rather
Speaker 16: than giving like a really big long speech. So job
Speaker 16: well done, guys.
Speaker 1: Would you explain where that comes from?
Speaker 16: Yea, So this is how we when we're in like
Speaker 16: a chat with friends and we're just like, you know,
Speaker 16: you know, hamming about who we're gonna bomb and all
Speaker 16: of that, but we agree. We fisted American flag fire.
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