Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s entrepreneurial spirit — and sense of humor — propelled him into business school, he told the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” revealing that his first job as a chimney sweep gave him a one-liner good enough to be admitted.

“I was looking for a job where I could move up fast and always stay in the black,” Burgum cracked to The Post’s Miranda Devine, recalling the application answer he submitted to more than half a dozen MBA programs.

“I swept the board and got into all of them,” he added, ticking off admissions letters to Stanford University (where Burgum ultimately received his MBA), Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago. 3

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