The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Hits 100 Days & Canada Celebrates By Electing the Anti-Trump | Katherine Maher

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

On Trump’s official second 100th day in office, Jordan Klepper delves into his lack of follow-through, including the division he’s sown, his back-and-forth on tariffs and firings, and taun...ting Canada until they elected a liberal prime minister. Trump let Elon Musk take a chainsaw to the federal workforce in order to save taxpayers money, but after hearing from some of the government employees who lost their jobs, Desi Lydic is starting to think the real waste, fraud, and abuse was living inside DOGE this whole time. NPR CEO Katherine Maher joins Jordan Klepper to stress the important functions of public media that are under threat from the Trump administration, especially educational children’s programming and local reporting in rural areas where public radio is often the only source for local news. She also defends NPR’s journalism against critics who claim it is liberally biased, while extending an invitation for more conservative voices to express their perspectives on NPR, and emphasizes that the mandate of public media is to serve the whole population of the U.S., which includes diverse and underserved communities.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:01:00 Yes, it has been 100 days of Trump in the Oval Office. I mean that figuratively. Obviously, he spent lots of those days in the steam room at Mar-a-Lago. Picture it. I'll wait. Can you see him glistening? Picture it. Ooh, yeah? Yeah? Ooh, put it in your head. Put it in your head.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Don't make me put up a picture, all right? I'm doing it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Even hotter than your imagination, huh? What were we talking about? Right. It's Trump's 100th day. I think. Tuesday will mark President Trump's 100th day in office.
Starting point is 00:01:43 President Trump's 100th day in office is coming up this Wednesday. Tuesday is going to mark President Trump's 100th day. Wednesday marks the 100th day. On Wednesday of this week, it's actually Tuesday. Wednesday, April 30th. Tuesday. Wednesday. If you count January 20th as Inauguration Day as day one,
Starting point is 00:02:01 then tomorrow is day 100. It's simple math. You just look at the calendar and count days. Oh, my God! This is how divided we've become under Trump. We can't even agree on how counting works. Apparently, Wednesday is now a partisan issue. I mean, it's hard to think of a better metaphor
Starting point is 00:02:22 for how the first 100 days have gone. But here's one. This morning, new questions about how a $70 million U.S. fighter jet fell off an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Oh, no, no, no! America's doing great! We're doing great! Yeah, sure, some of our fighter jets
Starting point is 00:02:43 are kamikaze-ing themselves instead of serving under the Hegseth regime, but... things are fine. I will say, you know who this is good for? The Little Mermaid. You know? Think of how excited she was when she found a fork.
Starting point is 00:03:00 Now she's got an F-18 fighter jet. F*** legs, I got wings, baby. Whoo! You're part of my world now, bitch. So, yeah, bit of a shock, but the good news is the military says the plane can be salvaged. They just need to get it out and plop it into a really big bowl of rice.
Starting point is 00:03:21 Good as new. Okay, so that was a bit awkward. And to put an even bigger damper on Trump's 100-day celebration, our neighbor to the north celebrated last night in a very disrespectful way. Taking on Trump and winning at the ballot box. Last night, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, his Liberal Party winning re-election
Starting point is 00:03:44 after a stunning turnaround. Voters were swayed by U.S. tariffs and comments from President Trump about making Canada the 51st state. I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I'm sorry to say, an asshole. What have we done? We've turned Canada's cutest nanas into foul-mouthed expletive machines.
Starting point is 00:04:12 And I know, I'm sorry to say, he's an asshole doesn't sound bad to us, but in Canada, she's Cardi B. Cardi B-C, you know, British Columbia. But yes, thanks to Trump, the Liberal Party just pulled off a historic comeback, winning all the major Canadian demographics. Hockey moms, hockey dads, hockey non-binaries, hockey seniors, hockey hockey players, and of course, hot Ryans. But the winner of all this anti-Trump energy
Starting point is 00:04:43 was new Prime Minister Mark Carney, and his victory is all the more impressive when you see that he is not the most traditionally electric candidate. A system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for a country for decades is over. We are over.
Starting point is 00:05:03 We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves. Wow, this lady was trying to be his hype man and he's like, ma'am please, this is a victory party. This is no place for excitement. Was Mark Carney doing that the whole campaign? What do we do? Fight! No, no, no, quiet down. That was rhetorical.
Starting point is 00:05:36 It's not what this is about. But look, let's step back for a minute, because here on the 100th day, it might be worth taking stock of where we are. Because right now, all the vibes are terrifying. Trump is overreaching, he's breaking rules, he's ignoring judges, he's collecting all the infinity stones, he convinced the pope to do the
Starting point is 00:05:55 eat a hot dog without chewing challenge. Rest in peace. You lost fair and square, Pope, sorry. But if there's one silver lining to this dictator 100 days, it's that when anyone pushes back, he folds like a cyber truck in a fender bender. Like this. Like, look at what happened with his tariff policy.
Starting point is 00:06:15 He's been hyping up tariffs for decades. It was the centerpiece of his campaign last year. The most beautiful word in the entire dictionary of words is the word tariff. I love tariff. Tariff's more beautiful than love. Let's put God number one. Let's put religion number two.
Starting point is 00:06:36 And then it's tariff. Tariff. Tariff. Tariff. My favorite word. Tariff. Tariff. He says tariff like I'm trying to take a bone
Starting point is 00:06:47 out of his mouth. Tariff, tariff, tariff! It took less than a week of market turmoil and suddenly Trump was like, faxies. Tonight, the stunning about face from President Trump. People were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know? Yippy? jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy, you know?
Starting point is 00:07:05 Yippy? I mean, what kind of autocrat bails at yippy? Putin wasn't like, I was gonna annex Crimea, but then they gave me the stink eye, so... Dasvidanya. Look, and tariffs are just the most famous example. He's been backtracking all over the place. Just for example, he unfired federal workers he had fired.
Starting point is 00:07:25 He put back DEI web pages he had taken down. He uncancelled student visas that he canceled. He un-nominated the attorney general. He already nominated and so on and so on and so on. At a certain point, you've got to ask, does Trump even want to be a dictator? Because I've never be a dictator? Because I've never heard a dictator
Starting point is 00:07:47 call backsees this much. Say what you want about Hitler, which is a... Which is a sentence I immediately regret saying. But the guy stuck to his guns. It's Mein Kampf, not Mein Bad. But maybe, maybe my favorite recent example is when he started suggesting he would illegally fire Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.
Starting point is 00:08:12 The Trump administration is looking at possible ways to fire Jerome Powell. The president blasted Powell, calling him a major loser, and saying Powell's termination cannot come fast enough. Okay, all right, wow. Now, when I first saw that, I thought, here we go, some dictator shit's about to go down. But then, same old story. The markets got spooked, and then so did Trump.
Starting point is 00:08:35 Mr. Clark, do you have no intention of firing Jerome Powell? Do you have any plans on doing this? None whatsoever. Never did. Never did? I love Jerome. I did. Never did? I love Jerome. I did say he's a major loser, but in a friendly way. Hey, my loser, you know, no hard R. I mean, it's good that he backtracked,
Starting point is 00:08:55 but it does make it a little awkward that he already called him an incompetent loser. It's like hearing someone say, that guy is the worst, dumbest moron I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. My days are darker and sadder in their presence. Anyways, I do. Look, the point is this. Look, the point is this.
Starting point is 00:09:21 Look, the point is, the point is, Trump basically does the presidential version of posting a picture then deleting it if it doesn't get enough likes. Which makes it all the more frustrating to see so many law firms and universities and companies bending the knee to Trump. They don't have to. Chances are, if you push back, he'll take it back. Either that or he'll send you to El Salvador for a few years. But then you get a selfie with Kristi Noem,
Starting point is 00:09:47 so it's worth it. When we come back, Desi Lydic prepares for the Doge apocalypse. So go away. -♪ Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back.
Starting point is 00:10:16 We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. If there's one thing Americans know about, it's waste. In fact, 89% of Americans agree that our government is full of it. So Donald Trump empowered Elon Musk to create the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and go through our government with a fine-toothed chainsaw. The chainsaw for bureaucracy!
Starting point is 00:10:41 To cut budgets and fire thousands of federal employees. We're cutting down the size of government we have to. We're bloated, sloppy. So I sat down with some of these fired bureaucrats to see if they felt any remorse for wasting taxpayer money. What would you say that you did for the government? Would it fall under waste, fraud, or abuse? So I was in charge of helping essentially keep American consumers from getting ripped off by financial companies. Okay, so all of the above or? None of the above. I worked for the National Institutes of Health as an education and outreach specialist.
Starting point is 00:11:18 Fraud, waste, or abuse? I thought I signed up to make sure that those things didn't happen, but apparently I was mistaken. I don't think I can put you down for any of those. I guess fraud? My job as an Inspector General is actually to find and ferret out waste, fraud and abuse. I am a watchdog. You do have hall monitor energy. I see it. Little bit. Big watchdog. You do have hall monitor energy.
Starting point is 00:11:46 I see it. Little did. Big watchdog energy. What kinds of things was your department blowing that taxpayer cheddar on? Yacht parties, balloon excursions. What was the caviar budget? I've never had caviar. Is that like the egg stuff?
Starting point is 00:12:00 So you're saying no caviar Wednesdays. Okay, but even without bottomless caviar, the salaries of these government workers must account for a large part of our bloated federal budget, right? I think the reality is that they're getting wealthier at a tax-free expense. How much of the federal budget is spent on federal employees? 4%. Are you sure you don't mean 94%? 4%.
Starting point is 00:12:22 4%? Yes. I thought you were going to say a much%? 4%. 4%? Yes. I thought you were going to say a much larger number. A lot of people do. By eliminating your position, how much money was saved for the taxpayers? The taxpayers didn't save any money by eliminating mine.
Starting point is 00:12:37 The money that we have under my leadership actually returned is over $30 billion to the Treasury. I'm no mathematician, but that sounds pretty good. We've gotten $21 billion back restitution and relief to Americans who are scammed by their financial companies. And it's even better because we don't cost taxpayers a single dollar. That's right, these guys were hunting down fraud, waste, and abuse way back when Elon still had his original...
Starting point is 00:13:04 personality. So you were the original Doge? Well, I don't like to call what the IGs do what Doge is doing. IGs work by standards. Is there any part of you that's a little upset because an immigrant actually did steal your job? No. No?
Starting point is 00:13:22 No. Why should we fund a National Institute of Health? The things that NIH studies, you know, diabetes, aging, mental health, addiction, it's literally the epicenter of biomedical research for the entire planet. I do think there are ways that we could cut back on inefficiency, but you don't use a chainsaw to do that, you use a scalpel. This might sound crazy, but is the Department of Government Efficiency
Starting point is 00:13:50 not that efficient? Speaking of ineffective. Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. Elon was quickly forced to hit Control-Z on many of his layoffs, which is the shortcut for undo and not the name of one of his kids.
Starting point is 00:14:06 So the administration decided to put us on administrative leave and then they just started another round of firing. But since I got fired once already, I was not able to get back into my laptop. So I don't know if I have a letter or that. So you got fired. And then they essentially sent you a text that said, you up? And you responded, yes. And then they ghosted you?
Starting point is 00:14:34 Yep. So are you saying that this government is being run by f***boys? Essentially. It also doesn't help that Elon keeps revising down the amount of waste he's finding. I think we could do at least two trillion. A trillion dollars. Half a trillion dollars. A hundred and fifty billion dollars.
Starting point is 00:14:51 Classic **** boy behavior, over-promising and under-delivering. Do you believe that the intention behind Doge is to actually cut unnecessary spending? If you wanted to take over all of your competitors' business, one way you could do that is you could go to every financial regulator, every government agency that has sensitive data from the private sector. You could suck that data into some sort of AI, large language model. And then you could use it to undercut
Starting point is 00:15:19 all of American industry. Do you think there's any chance that Elon is doing something good with all of our data? Like maybe with having access to all that data, he'll finally understand the mysteries of the human heart. No? Well, they've removed the watch dogs. And the danger of that is that Congress doesn't have a transparent way of knowing what is
Starting point is 00:15:44 happening within these agencies and departments. It's almost like they've set out on this journey to find fraud, waste and abuse, when really the fraud, waste and abuse was inside them the whole time. By the time Elon returns to his day job, an estimated 280,000 government employees could be fired. But despite all the chaos and destruction, there are some things that Chainsaw can't take away. After experiencing all of this, would you trust the government again?
Starting point is 00:16:20 Honestly, yes. You would? I would. They need people that actually care about the American people. So you would go back, but after a healthy boundary talk? Mm-hmm. You would.
Starting point is 00:16:34 Thank you, Desi. We'll come back. Catherine Maher will be joining me on the show. Don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is the president and CEO of NPR. Please welcome Catherine Maher. Welcome. Thank you. Good to be here. Happy 100 days. I know.
Starting point is 00:17:12 A lot has happened in the last 100 days. As head of NPR, you were recently asked to test your Happy 100 days. I know. A lot has happened in the last 100 days. As head of NPR, you were recently asked to testify at the anti-American airwaves hearing. That's right. What kind of anti-American shenanigans
Starting point is 00:17:36 are you getting up to over at NPR? Uh, let's see. Reporting on the impact of the administration on disabled folks, reporting on the impact of the administration on disabled folks, reporting on veterans' issues and the revocation of a program that was designed to keep veterans in their homes following COVID-19, Tiny Desk. -"Tiny Desk Concert." That was it.
Starting point is 00:17:58 That was it. At some point, Americans deserve big desks, and you guys have really been pushing this tiny desk narrative for so, so long. At some point, Americans deserve big desks, and you guys have really been pushing this tiny desk narrative for so, so long. Efficiency. Efficiency, right? I mean, did you ever imagine that you would be having to defend yourself in front of Marjorie Taylor Greene
Starting point is 00:18:17 and trying to defend the whole purpose of NPR? Was that on your dream board? My dream? My... Yes. It was. My dream board was to dream? My... Yes. It was. My dream board was to advocate for NPR in any way that I can in all public media. So if I'm gonna go in front of Marjorie Taylor Greene, I'm going to tell her exactly why we're so valuable
Starting point is 00:18:35 and beneficial to the country. I saw a picture here. Whoo! We have a picture here. I want to know what was going through your mind in this. Were you asking for help from a higher being? What was going through your head there? I think I was just trying to sit down.
Starting point is 00:18:54 Oh, really? Without falling out of my chair. Because you're used to tiny desks. Like, this is just too large. This is too large. Well, you know, when you get in there, it's a little bit like Mount Olympus. They're very, very far away and very high up. And you're very small and on the ground. And so you're just that thing of looking up.
Starting point is 00:19:10 It is actually kind of awe-inspiring. I know that people are sort of cynical about Congress at times, but I was in awe. I mean, I'm sitting there. This is the seat of our legislative branch. And it really was an honor to be able to go in. I mean, it's, you know, NPR, PBS is often, it's part of the conversation.
Starting point is 00:19:30 I think there's been a lot of push for many, many years to take funding away. But in, like, 2025, the criticism from the right is, what do we need public funds to go towards NPR for? What is that argument? People are getting their news from all sorts of people. Most people just get their news from all sorts of people. Most people just get their news from the TikTok feed from their neighbor.
Starting point is 00:19:48 So why do they need their taxes to go to a place like NPR? Well, there's also a very big difference between disseminating the news and gathering the news. And what we do is we do news gathering. It allows for people to then be able to come in and add their spin and their commentary on it. So I have no problem with TikTok influencers or other people resharing that news. I think that that's actually great. But we want them to have credible sources of news
Starting point is 00:20:10 to begin with, to be able to base that work on. But more importantly, I think the big misconception is that this money goes to NPR or to PBS. The reality is that the vast majority of funds in public broadcasting resources go directly to local stations. So I'm talking about, I did a little research. I'm talking about WKAR.
Starting point is 00:20:28 Oh, this is, okay, I'll write that. Bring that NPR shit here, huh? I get it. I think it's WMUK, WKAR, or the stations where you grew up. Kalamazoo, Michigan, yes, exactly, yes, WMUK. Exactly. Indeed. And so stations like that, they get a significant part of their funding comes from public funds.
Starting point is 00:20:50 And that really matters, especially when you get into rural parts of the country. So I was in Asheville, North Carolina recently, as we all know, devastating damage in Hurricane Helene. They have enormous radio towers that broadcast across that topography because it's like this, you know, it's like this, you know, it's the Appalachian Mountains. Same thing's true, Eastern Kentucky. You get out to the Rocky Mountains.
Starting point is 00:21:09 Same thing is true. Huge swaths of the country. That's expensive to maintain. We cover 99.7% of the country with our broadcast coverage, and that allows for Americans to have access to news even in places where news deserts are growing, where disasters happen. That's what your federal funds go to. They go to your local station. They go to your local reporters. So what does that look like? So... I mean, the threat right now...
Starting point is 00:21:34 The threat right now is they take a billion dollars away from NPR, PBS over the next couple years, correct? Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR, PBS, and all of public media. What does that look like? If that goes through, if they take a billion dollars away, what happens? It's not great. I really, I think that Americans need to be aware that it is going to be harmful to the
Starting point is 00:21:55 system, right? So a lot of us probably grew up on kids' television, PBS Kids. It's, I mean, it is a crown jewel of American public broadcasting programming. And whether you think about your history with Mr. Rogers, whether you're thinking about Sesame Street, whether you're thinking about more contemporary programming, that is so important and that is a threat, under threat. When you think about your local radio stations, those may not be able to provide the same sorts of services.
Starting point is 00:22:19 And the first thing that's going to go, I have to tell you, is going to be local reporters' jobs. We have news deserts. 20% of Americans live in a place where they have no local news coverage other than public radio. What that means is that when we lose public funding, we are no longer going to be able to cover things like what matters in the state house. We're not going to be able to cover natural disasters.
Starting point is 00:22:39 We're not going to be able to cover issues of local politics, issues of what's happening in your local sports team. We know that the existence of local news and public radio in particular contributes to lower rates of polarization, higher rates of civic engagement, and higher rates of civic trust. This is foundational infrastructure for our country.
Starting point is 00:22:58 Even when we disagree, this is the sort of thing that can start to heal some of those disagreements and bring us back together. Now, it's interesting though. Folks on the right are complaining there's a liberal bias in places like NPR. And we're in a politically charged time. And you have to, as the CEO, you have to walk what that line is and appeal to all of America. But I also fear from the left, they feel like moving towards the right looks like capitulation.
Starting point is 00:23:31 In some ways, I feel like you're between a rock and a hard place. Like, how do you balance this? I don't see a situation where there's an articulation of, like, fairness that both sides can agree upon. The right asks you to be less progressive or less liberally biased. I think any actions towards that will be seen
Starting point is 00:23:50 as strict capitulation from the left. Is that where you're at? I mean, I won't lie. We are always in a tough spot. But what I love about our mission and our mandate is that it's actually our responsibility to try to serve everyone. No other commercial media organization
Starting point is 00:24:05 has that same mandate. They can hyper-serve a particular audience, and that contributes to polarization. It's actually our job to bring folks together. What I see this as is, look, our reporting, our fact-based reporting is absolutely down the line. I stand by our journalism 1,000%. We recognize that we have some of the best journalists
Starting point is 00:24:23 in the business, and they go out there, and they find stories, whether they're reporting on Congress or whether they're reporting on issues of climate change, desertification, water rights, et cetera. They're doing great reporting. I think what we need to be able to do is to bring more voices onto our air
Starting point is 00:24:38 and have folks in conversation about the policies that are being made in this country today. We need to be able to hear from policymakers from across the spectrum. So we invite people from every party onto the air, but not everyone comes. I don't think that it's a question per se of us being biased in terms of our actual reporting. What I do think is that we're missing some voices. And so I would just take this opportunity to extend again an invitation to conservative
Starting point is 00:25:02 voices who feel like they're not being heard. I also, I think that we can't shirk from our responsibility to serve all Americans. And so another criticism that we see is that, you know, we're too woke. But the reality is this is a very diverse nation. And our mandate under the Public Broadcasting Act is to serve everyone, including the unserved and the underserved. And we can't pull away from that either. We have to be able to represent America in all of its diversity, even when that makes us sometimes uncomfortable.
Starting point is 00:25:28 That means expanding the tent to be as big a tent as possible rather than sort of moving the tent around the country to accommodate different groups. Have you thought about... I mean, if you... You really want to expand that tent. Have you thought about rebranding? Like, Terry Gross presents the American man-cast ear hole?
Starting point is 00:25:51 Like, really? Like, let Terry lean into it, you know? I'm imagining Terry in a knotty pine basement, you know? Yeah, exactly. Just sipping bourbon, you know? Yeah, pushing ivermectin every now and then. Like, is Terry interested in this? Come on. I couldn't tell you what Terry's drink of choice is. Maybe it is bourbon.
Starting point is 00:26:09 We would have. That sounds like a great interview. This is, this is, get to the bottom of this, NPR. The people want to know. Katherine, before you leave, it seems only right for us to give you a daily show tote bag. I know this is is this is currency. I believe this is a this is considered the Bible in the NPR world so I wanted to pass it along. I barter these for
Starting point is 00:26:36 groceries at this point. Is that be right back. Thank you. Thank you. That's our show for tonight, but before we go, my new Fingers the Poll special is coming out soon. It's called MAGA, The Next Generation, where I'll be investigating the rise of young Trump voters. It premieres May 19th, and I gotta tell you, it's a banger, be sure to check it out.
Starting point is 00:27:13 Tomorrow night, Desi Lydic will be continuing our coverage of Trump's first 100 days. Do not miss it. Now here it is, your moment is in. There's always a, in any new administration, it's a roller coaster. There's some bumps along the road. The early initial people, they have an emotional reaction sometimes for the big changes, but
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