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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet. I'm welcome to this election night special

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Speaker 1: of j Days like guysduction of I Heart Radio. This

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Speaker 1: is the podcast where we take a deep dive into

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Speaker 1: as so on and so forth. I do believe the

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Speaker 1: election results thus far have done some manner of neurological

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Speaker 1: damage to me, because I'm I've like gone through a

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Speaker 1: folksy phase where I'm like speaking like folksy ways, or

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Speaker 1: I don't know, my cadence is all off. Uh but um,

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Speaker 1: it's what is it? It's like Tuesday ten. Yeah, ten

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Speaker 1: forty Eastern, seven forty Pacific. I'm Jack O'Brien. That's Miles grag.

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Speaker 1: You didn't have an a K, did you? No, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think we could just focus on the matter at

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Speaker 1: hand without I've been there. Yeah. Well, we are thrilled

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Speaker 1: to be joined in our third seat by the brilliant,

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Speaker 1: the talented tez onn Hi. Everyone, Hi, thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us late on this night when I'm sure you

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Speaker 1: would typically just be relaxing. Um. Yeah, I am nail

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Speaker 1: biting on the edge of my sofa. You said something

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Speaker 1: that made me feel good before we started recording. You

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Speaker 1: said that as a organizer, like the organizing community, this

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Speaker 1: is like what they expected. They expected it to be tight,

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Speaker 1: and they expected, uh something that hasn't happened yet, but

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Speaker 1: that we expect like Trump Fuckory is going to start

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Speaker 1: popping off on Twitter at some point. It's gonna happen soon.

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Speaker 1: So so there's a website actually if you go do

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Speaker 1: a Democracy Rising dot live and they have this kind

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Speaker 1: And so I just think that, like it's what's bringing

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Speaker 1: me comfort. I just keep going to this website going

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Speaker 1: like okay, like they've done the math. They know that

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Speaker 1: like once he went Biden went the West coast, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be in total votes for Biden. And we're just

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Speaker 1: in that in between point where you know the states

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Speaker 1: are read because we're just counting poll day voters, right,

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Speaker 1: and there's some like Florida has been counting. So Florida

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Speaker 1: did not go well, that's like the one thing we

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Speaker 1: know for sure, like Trump exceeded his polling in Florida.

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Speaker 1: Biden did the opposite of that. Wait, can I push

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Speaker 1: back on Florida a little bit? Because I know we

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Speaker 1: are talking about the presidential election cycle. But I'm I

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Speaker 1: have an organizer that I've been working with in Miami.

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Speaker 1: She worked for an organization called Power You, and she

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Speaker 1: just texted me that they elected a progressive mayor in

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Speaker 1: Miami probably probably Miami, and I think, you know, like

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Speaker 1: we are going to have terrible wins, but Miami Dade

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Speaker 1: County turned out blue and it turned out progressive for

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Speaker 1: their local mayor. Yeah, just not in the numbers like

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Speaker 1: last time. I think that was like the big thing

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Speaker 1: that they sat like, okay, so didn't well where they're

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Speaker 1: being like Cubans and Hispanic Oh my god, what the

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, what what is Cuba? Then I'm

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Speaker 1: pardon me. That's a very interesting The other thing where

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Speaker 1: I think people are also seeing two is um there's

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Speaker 1: like people need to stop looking at certain votes as

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Speaker 1: people that are like, oh my god, I don't understand,

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Speaker 1: like there's a lot of Latinos coming out for Trump,

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Speaker 1: it's like, well, not everyone subscribes to the same like

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Speaker 1: belief system, like of what it means to come to America,

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Speaker 1: what it means to be self sufficient, like everyone has

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Speaker 1: very different versions of that that they're looking at the

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Speaker 1: country through, and so I think that's that's an interesting thing.

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Speaker 1: I will say the one nice thing so far is

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Speaker 1: that we have not heard about terrible violence appalling places. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: threatened violence us been Trump Trump trains uh and caravans

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Speaker 1: that uh look like some kind of as jam or

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Speaker 1: it's fun to get right, all right. We have a

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Speaker 1: writer from Canada who just like writes about this stuff

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Speaker 1: just with his mouth at gape from from Canada, and

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Speaker 1: he was saying that, you know, it's from where he's sitting,

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Speaker 1: it looks like a tackier version of mad Max Fury

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Speaker 1: through or ending at polling places, just very very strange.

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Speaker 1: And and they, as we talked about, like in Bakersfield

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Speaker 1: Trump and Biden supporters are gathering, But I think it's

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Speaker 1: know there's so much going on. Yeah, just again, I

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Speaker 1: wish the media, like Steve Kornaki would just you know,

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Speaker 1: But the ship is a tight you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't maybe the maybe the blowout happens in

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Speaker 1: And I think, honestly, I think everyone should have expected

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Speaker 1: they're in a death cult. Like I just yeah, like

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Speaker 1: how how it's wild? Because yeah, repeated like that. We

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Speaker 1: we've called it a death cult for a while on

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Speaker 1: this show. But like they're actually you know, coming out

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Speaker 1: in full force to tell us that no, that's what

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Speaker 1: we are. We will die for this motherfucker because he

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Speaker 1: validates our identity by It's not just like they get

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Speaker 1: kill them in order to just continue to have that

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Speaker 1: let them let them fucking freeze while he flies off

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Speaker 1: in a helicopter. It's wild, truly. Yeah, Like he just

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Speaker 1: that he's taken bussing them to the spot, letting them

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Speaker 1: was like I reverted back to nineties era democratic thinking

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Speaker 1: people are so angry at the mainstream liberal, neoliberal culture

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Speaker 1: cultural elite in quotes that they will die for President

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Speaker 1: Trump is probably related to the fact that that cultural

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Speaker 1: And that's probably all about polarization. Yeah, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: the screen, and really it just doesn't matter. My magical

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Speaker 1: my son is obsessed with asking Alexa what the air

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Speaker 1: The alextive particulate matters like per whatever, oh right right right,

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Speaker 1: the QPI or que and that whatever there it is,

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Speaker 1: we're losing. He's gonna do it again. So that's where

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious, like what's the deal, look like, Satan?

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Speaker 1: if if we're if we're doing if we're going in

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Speaker 1: for Pods than expected. I think, yeah, I think that

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Speaker 1: I don't know whatever, like either way, like, no matter

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Speaker 1: what happens, and I just keep reiterating this, the mission

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Speaker 1: you know, Like, no matter who the driver is, we're

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Speaker 1: you know, the hard work is trying to change this

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Speaker 1: you know, I'll I'm just gonna reserve my energy for

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Speaker 1: when the reality is what it is. Let's take a

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Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back after this, and we're back.

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Speaker 1: Do we even want to put ads in an election episode?

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Speaker 1: I was noticing that people on Twitter. We're like, there's

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Speaker 1: sure a lot of like ads for watching like our

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Speaker 1: democracy burned down. It's fun to like get sold cars

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