Given the dire tone of the 2016 presidential election campaign, it’s nice to get a little bit of levity now and then. And you can usually count on John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver to provide it.

Oliver took on third-party candidates on a recent show. The segment is equal parts entertainment, takedown (particularly of fringe players like the Prohibition Party and Joe Exotic), and serious exploration of the proposals of the two best-known third-party contenders in the race. (No matter your political party, bikes are something everyone can agree on. Learn about all the awesome types of cyclists out there in Bike Tribes!)

As Oliver tears apart Gary Johnson and Jill Stein’s positions on a number of issues, we do learn one interesting tidbit: Stein’s a pretty big fan of bikes. Back in the ‘90s, Stein was a member of a folk-rock band called Somebody’s Sister (which Oliver, not inaccurately, describes as “the Indigo Girls fronting the Red Hot Chili Peppers”).

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Among the songs? “Streets of Boston,” where Stein attempts to rap about a woman riding a bicycle. Some lyrics:

She’s out there in the sun and underneath the stars

On a roll, she’ll try to go, don’t get there in those cars

Biking for the nation, the future generation

You think it’s transportation but to her it’s a salvation.

Corny? Sure. But at least it’s consistent with Green Party policies. (If the words speak to you, you can download the full song from the Somebody’s Sister website.)

Stein’s official campaign platform, like many others, doesn’t include a ton of specifics about bikes, but her press team tells Bicycling that she’s strongly in favor of cycling as a solution to problems like pollution, traffic congestion, and public health.

“Bicycle-friendly infrastructure would be a major part of our transportation plan,” says Communications Director Dave Schwab, “including separated lanes, on-street lanes, and bike paths.” Stein believes that the federal government can and should commit more resources to bike and pedestrian infrastructure.

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On the issue of safety, Schwab says Stein believes cyclists are still too commonly “treated as second-class citizens,” and would “direct law enforcement to pursue justice for cyclists when drivers are responsible for crashes.”

Interestingly, Stein’s not the only big cycling advocate in the 2016 field. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is an accomplished cyclist and four-time finisher of Ironman Kona; he plans to race the 3,000-mile Tour Divide ultraendurance event on the Continental Divide Trail next year—provided he’s not elected President, of course.

The other candidates' cycling connections are a bit more tenuous. Donald Trump had a brief dalliance with race promotion through the short-lived Tour de Trump (and his criticism of John Kerry for riding bikes); Hillary Clinton has been spotted on a bike once or twice. The candidates’ true commitments to bikes, however, are unknown: Of the four largest campaigns by polling numbers, Stein’s was the only one to respond to Bicycling’s request for comment.

Watch the full Last Week Tonight segment here (we suggest starting around 17:50 for the rap):

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