It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. So last night on the station,

as some of you may have heard, WNYC's Nancy Solomon hosted the penultimate edition. I presume it's the

second to last edition of her series Ask Governor Murphy, the monthly call in with New Jersey

Governor Phil Murphy, who of course will be leaving office at the end of next month. He was term

limited out. And the first caller they had last night was a woman who identified herself as

Mikey from Montclair. Mikey from Montclair. See if you recognize the voice.

Hi, Governor. I'm a long-time listener, first-time caller. And I just had a question. I was wondering if somebody was interested in

being the next governor of New Jersey, what advice would you have for that person?

And so they had a little advice exchange. Here's some of it.

Mikey, as you probably know, if you've listened before, and I know your husband tells me he

listens, we try to get back to all our callers within 24 hours, so I'll have Dennis Zemelov.

Give you a call tomorrow morning. Sorry. What are, I assume you're in, you must be in Washington voting.

Is that, is that where you are?

I am.

I'm in the middle of it.

Yeah, we're fighting hard for health care, but, you know, it's just not looking good for reasons I still can't quite comprehend.

Why you'd want to rip health care away from people.

Over 450,000 New Jerseyans could see their rates go up exponentially.

It's really tough.

But we'll keep up the fight, and I know you have ideas, too, on just how to continue to keep people whole in New Jersey

as we fight some really bad stuff coming from

Washington.

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