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rson Jean-Pierre, she said, quote, the president is the best communicator that we have in the White House. I will pause while you enjoy the deep hearty laugh that you're having at home. Ha ha. And as you might imagine, the wags, the critics, the people who just can't handle a happy thought, they weighed in and they said things like, well, that explains a lot. Oh, you're reminding me of the cruel…

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in the town. So he was a teacher but he was a badass.

And one day he was telling us that, you know, you can't look at the sun because it would burn your retinas or something. And there was a kid in the first row who raised his hand. And you'd have to know that the kid in the first row, he had been promoted since kindergarten without passing any classes. Now that was how they did it in the old days. I think he passed zero classes but he'd already gotten into high school. So they didn't really have a special class for the people who couldn't pass any class. He had serious learning disability problems.

And so this kid who was famous as being the one kid who probably had never, literally never passed a class, he's sitting there and the professor says, you know, you can't look at the sun, you know, don't look at the sun. And the kid in the front row raises his hand. He goes, I look at the sun all the time.

And the professor looks at him. They're not professor but the science teacher, the science teacher looks at him and in front of the entire class he goes, well, that explains a lot. That actually happened. If you could imagine that the rest of us were crying because it was so cruel and funny at the same time. It was really cruel but it was very funny. True story.

So yes, Biden is the best communicator in the White House and maybe that does explain a lot.

Maybe he does. Well, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that speed dating is making a comeback.

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If you don't know what that is, it's where a bunch of single people get together and they quickly spend like a minute with each other. I don't know how fast the speed is but it's really fast. So something like a minute or two you spend with each person. You sit down and say how you doing for about a

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