Hey, welcome to the Morning Joe podcast.

Our Friday edition, it's Friday, Meek.

It is Friday, thank.

Thank goodness.

Are you happy it's Friday?

I'm very sad.

I love doing four hours a day.

I would like, we have a couple hours tomorrow and Sunday,

the best ofs for the week, but man, I'm just waking up at 2.30 in the morning and talking for four hours.

You're going to get up tomorrow and watch yourself? Yeah. Well, no, no, no, you'll be having me going to get coffee and, that's true.

You know, carrying your barbells up to the attic and things like that. But today, let's not talk about

tomorrow. Let's talk about today. What we're going to be talking about today is Elon Musk's farewell and his dizzying rise and fall as a Washington power player.

I've got to say you've never had anybody that is an unelected official who's amassed so much power so quickly in the history of Washington, D.C.

And then he lost it all three months later. Really stunning.

We're going to be talking about Elon. We're also

going to be talking about the Republicans' big, beautiful, bodacious, economically crippling, insane

spending bill. We've got a $37 trillion debt, as you know. If this bill passes, our debt will go

up an additional $20 trillion over the next decade.

It's simply unsustainable.

I've been talking about this my entire life, the deficits, debt.

We balance the budget four years in a row in the 1990s, and it's just skyrocketed since

then.

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