Today we're going to talk about Biden's watershed moment at the State of the Union

and I interview Secretary of Transportation Pete Budajevich about Marjorie

the State of the Union's stunt, how dangerous the issue of IVF is going to be for the

right, and some major wins that he's overseen on the

infrastructure front. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to no lie.

All right first off a quick note this is episode. I remember early conversations at the beginning of 2020 about what this podcast would look like.

The plan then was to travel all across the country and talk to politicians and then, of course,

five minutes later we found ourselves immersed in the

depths of a global pandemic and just killing each other over toilet paper so this show has

been almost exclusively remote for these last few years except for this week

ironically enough when I went to DC and interviewed Secretary

Pete in person after the State of the Union.

So anyway, to everybody who's listening right now, thank you, thank you for taking a

little bit of your time each week. I absolutely

appreciate it. Okay, let's get into it. Here's the deal. The state of the union speech

rarely, if ever, moves the needle. But here's my argument as to why it will this time. So the first

reason is that Republicans do this thing where they lower the bar so much for

Joe Biden that that so long as he doesn't literally die at the podium he'll exceed expectations.

Like they spend day after day, week after week, month after month explaining how he's

in cognitive decline, how he doesn't know his own name, doesn't know where he is, that when he comes up and

inevitably delivers a home run of a speech like he did this past week, that's not only a win

unto itself, it also demolishes their talking points.

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