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SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY Talks Loneliness Epidemic, Internet, Democratic Coalition

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, am I correct in remembering this?
She said she didn't want to retire because she wanted a female president to
replace.
I don't remember that.
Maybe there were reports that she said that behind the scenes.
But yeah, how little was she?
I mean, we don't hang out with the Supreme Court justices.
But you see her at the State of the Union.
I mean, yeah, but I wasn't measuring her.
She was like 3'5" maybe?
3'6".
I think she's 3'5".
That's what it looked like.
I think she's taller.
I hated those t-shirts, though.
They're still out there.
Notorious RBG?
Yeah.
What the hell are they talking about?
She's just some lady.
It is true, like a rapper.
The show on my TV.
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My guest this week is United States Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy.
Murphy has made a name for himself in the Democratic Party as an outspoken
advocate against Donald Trump during his second term.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
Connecticut? Seriously?
The 48th largest state?
Like, big whoop, you know?
And, folks, I'd be lying if I didn't have many of these prejudices in my own
heart at various points in my life.
I thought people from Connecticut were drunks, Neanderthals, criminals.
We all know the saying, you know, watch your wallet, here comes a Connecticut.
We've all heard the joke.
You know, should I say, I don't want to, okay, I'll say that.
You know the joke.
What do you call a man from Connecticut with a sheep under one arm and a goat
under the other arm?
A bisexual.
It's not funny.
But I implore you, dear viewer, not to look down on Senator Murphy just because
of where he's from.
My conversation with Senator Murphy taught me an important lesson about the
power of dialogue.
And hopefully it does the same for you guys as well.
Connecticut holds an important place in history and culture.
For instance, it was the site of the world's first helicopter and the world's
first hamburger.
And, of course, the world's first condom, which was made out of sheep intestine.
And, of course, people not from Connecticut improved upon it by taking the
intestine out of the sheep first.
So, guys, please enjoy my conversation with Chris Murphy.
This guy is from Connecticut.
He might be the president one day.
It would be good for the show.
If you want to be the president, come on the show.
Ladies and gentlemen, Senator from the great state of Connecticut, the OK state
of Connecticut, Chris Murphy, everyone.
Hey, everybody.
Hi.
Yeah, clap, please.
Hey, everybody.
Good to be with you.
Hi.
Thanks, man.
I walked out a little early.
It's been constant disrespect since this guy came here.
I wanted to know if it was like inspired by Dick Cavett or a direct
reproduction.
It's really, it's ridiculous that this is my job, but it's really awesome.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
I mean, it's kind of, does it feel demeaning for you?
Do you feel like how far?
This is a new part of the job.
This is a new part of the job.
Yeah, you have to like show your personality and authenticity, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Like I've got to be a real person.
Yeah, yeah.
It used to be that like, you know, you could just do like two cable shows.
Yeah.
Maybe if you were a big deal, you'd show up on late night TV.
And now, you know.
Now you have to talk about like.
You used to do a show called Cumb Town.
Right.
Yeah.
So you used to be from the Red Onion capital of America.
Yeah, that's right.
So we both have a checkered past.
Connecticut, I know it's your home state.
I know you're going to, listen, you love your state.
Yeah.
But it's a little bit bullshit.
It's a little bit bullshit to me.
Just because you sort of view it as being the obstacle between Boston and New
York.
The drive, the trap.
I've never not had traffic.
Yeah.
But it's a popular place.
I mean.
No.
Places that no one wants to be don't have traffic.
I understand.
It's not like a real fucking city over here in New York.
No.
I mean, first of all, it has the Jersey thing where it's like either, it's
either New York
or New England, Boston.
Right?
Yeah, like we're both tri-state.
Yeah, yeah.
And we're New England.
Was the Red Onion place, was that a New York zone or was that a New England
zone?
New England zone.
So like I grew up, Wethersfield, Connecticut is like a Hartford area.
So I grew up in the center of the state.
So you, so you're Sox, you're Sox Celtics?
I'm Sox, Celtics, but New York Giants.
So why not Patriots?
I mean, I respect that.
Yeah, I root for whoever my father rooted for when he was growing up, but Patriots
didn't
exist.
So if you were like growing up in central Connecticut, you were Boston fans.
But for football, you were New York.
So, so yeah, I've got both New York and Boston.
Wait, your colleague is, is, was from the New York side.
The other senator from.
The Blumenthal.
Blumenthal.
Right.
So do you guys kind of have like, you guys cover different sides of the state?
I mean, you don't really.
He covers the insider trading side of the state.
It's like, the state's like that big.
You don't really need some, you don't need to divvy it up in half.
So Blumenthal is like one of these relentless politicians who goes to
everything, right?
He works like Saturdays, Sundays.
So he, in some ways, he does the, he does the job for, for both of us.
Really?
So you don't have to do crap?
Well, I mean.
You do your hot dog tour of Connecticut.
I do my hot dog tour of Connecticut.
Dude, I was mean.
But that's personal.
I was mean to you guys on that call.
Can I apologize real quick?
Yeah.
I mean, it was.
They said, they told me that you weren't going to, that you were not impressed
by the hot
dog tour and that you weren't going to bring it up.
I said, like, like, I was like, you know, like, I've been doing a lot of
research.
I was like, does he play guitar?
Like, is there anything I, and they're like, listen, he is a, he does a hot dog
tour.
And I think framing him as a hot dog aficionado might be good.
It's super embarrassing that that was like the go-to.
And I'm like, I feel actively depressed after hearing that.
Yeah, that's what makes, that's what, that's what makes me interesting.
I feel like you ruined my day.
And listen, you guys are professionals.
I don't like, and I, I just want to, I want to take accountability for that.
But that was one of the worst things I've ever heard.
It's not a reflection on them.
It's a reflection on, they have like very, no, they have like very little
material to work
with with their boss.
You got Bruce Hornsby fan?
Yes.
Yeah, you took, you took your staff to Bruce Hornsby?
I'm going to take him to Bruce Hornsby.
He's playing in DC next week, so.
None of them know who he is.
I asked.
No, nobody know.
And actually, if you, like, I sort of assume that everybody knows his signature
song.
The way, the way it is.
Boys, what were we listening to before?
But like, no.
Is that what were you listening to?
Yeah.
Yeah, the way it is.
Fewer people know even one of Bruce Hornsby's songs.
Well, he played The Dead, right?
Yeah, he played for, he toured with The Dead for like 10 years.
And he does like really kind of like interesting avant-garde stuff now.
He's, I mean, he tickles them damn keys.
He does tickle the ivies.
Yeah.
Great pianist.
I like, here's what I got on you.
Hot dog aficionado, he likes walking around, and Bruce Hornsby.
It sounds like you.
Walking around, I think that's.
As a fact pattern, that's the BTK killer.
You got, we got to do like, I don't know, you got to get a tattoo, a snake.
I don't know.
I walk, I walk across the state from one end to the other.
I don't just enjoy walking around.
Oh, they made it sound like you were some sort of hobo searching through trash,
like a raccoon.
There was a guy, and I don't remember when it was, but like 100 years ago.
Johnny Applesey.
In Connecticut, no, called the Leather Man.
Oh.
And he dressed in full, complete leather, head to toe, and walked the state nonstop
continuously.
And so you would get really excited when you heard rumors of the Leather Man
showing up to your town.
And like, people would rush down to see him.
You know, in New York, they have a couple of like, nightclubs, like for leather,
leather guys.
It would be much more interesting.
My walk across Connecticut would be much more interesting.
So like, growing up in the red onion town, it's a mark of pride.
I saw the mascot you guys have.
Do we have a red onion mascot?
Oh my God.
You don't even know about your own place, dude.
I mean, I grew up there.
I haven't lived there for a long time.
So you went to public high schools growing up?
Yep.
What was your vibe like growing up?
Like, you were a cool guy?
No.
No.
You got girlfriends?
No, I would be.
Like, I'm who you would expect.
I would be.
I was president of the class.
Yeah.
Started a Young Democrats Club when I was 16 years old.
I know.
I would know.
I was like, listen, I was like the, I was a born organizer, right?
Yeah.
So like, I organized the, you know, touch football games in the neighborhood.
And I, you know, organized the student protests against the dress code.
So like, that's just who I was.
Oh, you're radical.
It wasn't much of a dress code.
It was just that we couldn't wear, we couldn't wear baseball caps.
Oh yeah?
You took it to the man?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You fought all the way to the top?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was justice.
You like, were elected at 29 to the state Senate?
Is that correct?
I was 20, I was 25 when I was elected to this, to the state legislature.
So you just never had fun?
Yeah, I mean, I've been doing this since I was, yeah, since I'm an adult.
It's a weird, yeah, it's definitely a strange life, right?
To live like your entire life in elected politics.
I mean, I wasn't really in the public eye when I was a state legislator.
But yeah, it kind of fucks with you to do this job and only this job.
It's kind of like a pejorative these days, right?
Career politician.
Yeah.
The Republicans like to say that having experience, like, that means you're bad.
Yeah.
No, and they, when I first ran for the Senate, I mean, that was the primary
knock on me that
I hadn't, you know, I was a lawyer and I practiced law against Linda McMahon.
Yeah, yeah.
Having experience and having talent should be something that's celebrated in,
for a position,
like in any, in any career field.
And these days it's like, we need like private equity, evil business thing.
And that makes you better than someone that's like, knows how to do the job,
you know?
Yeah.
And so it's just like, I think, do you feel like that mirrors like kind of like
the, kind
of the decay of like trust in like our elected officials or institutions?
Like it's a bad thing that you like do something for 30 years?
Yeah, I mean, I, there's not a lot of evidence to people that a democracy is
working writ large
or that that experience does anything other than bind you to the status quo and
to the
powerful people in Washington.
So there's a lot of evidence that the longer you stay, the more complicit you
become in
the project of just enriching the folks at the very top.
But I've always opposed term limits largely because I think it's kind of, you
know, just
this big act