Hello America. It is Eric Erikson here. It is, well, 10 days from Christmas. Do you have your Christmas shopping done? I hope so. The phone number, 877-97-97-37-37-3-7-4-25. I got, you know, so my wife and my son's birthdays are both December as well. So you've got the birthday shopping and the Christmas shopping and you got to distinguish between the two.

And everything kind of runs together at this point.

Okay.

I got to, I got to start with actual news yesterday.

We didn't.

Today we are.

Our secretary of transportation transportation Pete Buttigieg

boot edge edge that's what they say to say when I first started it was using

Syria at one point when he was running for president try to get Twitter or you try

to get Siri on my phone to translate it out and spell it.

I assume, you know, most presidential candidates, if you say it, it'll spell out even with weird

spelling. But with him, it was Pete Butter Judge, Butter Judge. That's how Siri translated it at first.

Pete Buttigieg, he is the Secretary of Transportation. And he's a deeply ambitious

young man. He went from mayor of South Bend, Indiana to thinking he could run for president

of the United States. Now, I got to stop back. I realize that there's a hagiographic treatment to Pete Buttigieg in the press.

He is some sort of genius road scholar. Now listen, I got to be honest with you here. Part of this is he is a young gay man who is mayor of South Bend, Indiana, the home of Notre Dame.

And the media loves that stuff.

He checks the intersectional boxes.

They wanted youthfulness.

You want the Kennedy story now.

Let's do the Kennedy story.

But in gay casting, he and his husband. Now they've got adopted kids too.

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