I'm Rico Galliano.

And I'm Brendan Francis Nunes.

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around the midterm elections.

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And here's your icebreaker. So this is a joke that I heard while I was in Chad in 2006.

And in the joke, the president of Chad makes a phone call to President Mubutu of the Congo and he's in

a desperate frantic state and he says, oh, Mbuthu, I've got so many problems, I've got these rebels,

they're almost at the Capitol, I can hear the gunshots out my window.

And Mabutu on the other end of the phone, he shakes his head and he says, ah, what did I tell

you? He should have never built those roads.

I'm Brendan Francis New York. What did I tell you? You should have never built those roads.

I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

I'm Rico Gagliano.

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