thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. we are so grateful. the beat with ari melber on a friday night starts right now. thanks, nicolle. appreciate it. welcome to the beat. we begin with what some democrats are tout as the best day for domestic news within the biden presidency. not only the best days for the economy in this choppy covid era with all the upheavals but we re going to go through the numbers for you, the single best day for economic numbers in literally 50 years. the unemployment rate has not been this low, in other words, the unemployment rate has not been this high since americans were seeing things like this. hi, this is dick clark and it s time now one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind. as we chart our goals we shall be lifted by our dreams. i like your show, and i like your style shouldn t you brand be true today? kid, the next time i say go someplace like bolivia, let s go someplace l
before january 6th and after. the stakes are high. he also used this appearance to kind of turn the interview tables on me. he was asking if i like it when things get weird on the beat or when some people don t know how to respond to a lyric, so here on a lighter note, we talk about that and how my friends sometimes check my lyric quoting. here s that exchange. is there something about ari melber that loves to see when you do a thing that you can now study someone s reaction to it, it tells you something about them or the environment that you re in? i think you re on to something that both the way i am personality wise and the way i was raised, if i do something, it could be the lyric something or something else and there s a conformist reaction of we don t do that, that doesn t appeal to me. can i tell you a brief anecdote,