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Hello, good morning. I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Monday, June 9th.

And this is the Playbook podcast. Good morning. Dasha, you're back in D.C. Welcome home.

I am back in D.C. The sister has graduated and a lot

is going on here in Washington and actually where I just came from in California. Yeah, right. You

should have stayed in California where the action is, right? Yeah, if I were still in broadcast news,

I would be out there with a microphone right now, but instead I'm sitting with a microphone in here.

And I am in the weird bunker basement of my new house that I've literally just moved into.

There are boxes piled everywhere, and I'm sat against this white brick wall in the basement with

nothing around me. It's kind of like a dungeon.

Are we all invited to your house warming, Jack?

You are in 2027 when we finally finished unpacking all 167 boxes.

Godspeed.

Before we talk about what's driving the day, I need to talk to you about Friday,

last Friday when the whole Elon Musk thing was going completely nuts.

Oh, yeah, that whole thing.

I woke up on Saturday morning to find that you just had a chat with the president. And I read this story. It's like it just casually slips in, Dash has just had this call with the president in the United States. And I'm like, so how does that work? How do we go from you saying, oh, I'm chasing these leads to interview with the president? Do you want to just like give me some sense of how that

happens? Because I have no clue how you get on an interview with him. It's a short-n-

You know, I wish I could tell you I'm like some magical reporter that has a secret sauce.

No, I just called him. And then a bunch of other reporters in our business also called him.

I mean, we've talked about this a million times, but for all of

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