WEBVTT - The Blue Tsunami 0:00:05.290 --> 0:00:05.950 Hey, this is Annie. 0:00:06.269 --> 0:00:06.870 And Samantha. 0:00:07.050 --> 0:00:08.569 And welcome to Stuff One Never Told You, a production 0:00:08.590 --> 0:00:09.370 of iHeartRadio. 0:00:18.750 --> 0:00:22.960 And welcome to a celebratory episode. I'm going to say 0:00:22.980 --> 0:00:26.840 it this way, a celebratory episode. I titled it Blue Tsunami, 0:00:26.860 --> 0:00:29.630 and I really hate I don't know why I hate 0:00:29.670 --> 0:00:30.190 these terms. 0:00:30.490 --> 0:00:32.379 The blue wave, blue tsunami. I don't know why. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.660 It shouldn't bother me as much as this. I think 0:00:34.700 --> 0:00:38.260 it's just too gimmicky for what's happening in the world. 0:00:38.340 --> 0:00:42.120 But yes, I did title it because today we are 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:47.830 talking about the midterm 2026 election results thus far. Yeah, 0:00:48.010 --> 0:00:50.870 this week has been emotional. Honestly, I guess the last 0:00:50.870 --> 0:00:57.150 20 years We should say has been emotional, starting with Obama. Like, 0:00:57.170 --> 0:00:59.590 that really brought up some things, and I love it. 0:01:00.710 --> 0:01:02.770 And I feel like we're coming back to that level 0:01:02.850 --> 0:01:05.940 of emotion instead of the bad emotions. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:09.520 That we've gone through. 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.940 And I feel like we've had so many things happening, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.480 this good emotion that this new twist would be made 0:01:16.670 --> 0:01:20.449 this week with the midterm elections. That's really shifted the U.S. 0:01:20.450 --> 0:01:24.520 's vibe, I think, let's put it simply. As per usual, 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.440 because we are talking about something that is current or 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:32.830 current affairs related, let's timestamp it. Today is November 5th, 2026. 0:01:32.830 --> 0:01:40.209 This was worked on immediately on November 4th, 2026. We're like, well, 0:01:40.250 --> 0:01:44.370 we got things to talk about. And it's just a 0:01:44.450 --> 0:01:48.240 moment to kind of break down what happened, celebrate the 0:01:48.300 --> 0:01:51.580 good things, and then also prepare for what is to come. 0:01:52.100 --> 0:01:52.680 You ready, Annie? 0:01:53.300 --> 0:01:53.840 I hope so. 0:01:54.260 --> 0:01:56.080 I think you're ready. I think we're all ready. I 0:01:56.340 --> 0:02:00.420 think we've been ready. So let's do a quick rundown. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.000 So the actual results. We are looking at big changes 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.500 when it comes to the federal government and Congress. 0:02:06.900 --> 0:02:07.640 Yes, we have. 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.310 They have. They have. We have flipped both House of 0:02:11.330 --> 0:02:17.230 Representatives and the U.S. Senate to Democratic control. Yay. Yes. 0:02:17.430 --> 0:02:18.230 As of now. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.310 There are 54 Democratic senators at the seat elected for 0:02:22.310 --> 0:02:29.970 2027 and 44 Republican seats with a few question marks. 0:02:30.130 --> 0:02:34.970 Mississippi, Alaska, we're watching. Mississippi. Mississippi. 0:02:34.990 --> 0:02:36.970 Yeah, did not have that. 0:02:38.010 --> 0:02:39.990 That was not even a consideration. 0:02:40.010 --> 0:02:43.030 I knew that, like... It was going to be a 0:02:43.150 --> 0:02:45.669 little closer than it normally is, but I didn't think 0:02:45.730 --> 0:02:47.710 it was going to be close at all. 0:02:48.389 --> 0:02:50.150 No clue. No clue. 0:02:50.169 --> 0:02:54.790 South Carolina, come on. Proud of you. We're so excited 0:02:54.830 --> 0:02:59.250 to welcome you into the fold. Some of the nastiest 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.400 commercials I'd seen was coming out of South Carolina, but 0:03:02.419 --> 0:03:05.620 to be fair, that's the only place I watched live TV. 0:03:06.180 --> 0:03:07.899 Yeah. Well, they were bad here, too. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.640 That's what I've been told. I'm really glad not to 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:15.780 have seen any of it. But yeah, seeing that, come on. Yes, 0:03:16.020 --> 0:03:19.860 with the House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, 0:03:19.860 --> 0:03:22.880 247 seats are for the Democrats and 153 seats were 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:27.250 won by the Republicans. Again, we have several seats still. 0:03:27.690 --> 0:03:30.549 We're still looking. We're still waiting on some results. There's 0:03:30.570 --> 0:03:33.889 some heavy leanings for different ways, but no matter what, 0:03:33.990 --> 0:03:38.980 it's definitely done. It is now being controlled by the Democrats. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.890 So we will see what happens. in the next couple 0:03:42.910 --> 0:03:46.630 of years, dot, dot, dot. But that is amazing news. 0:03:46.770 --> 0:03:49.450 It's been a minute to have this many flip-flop changes. 0:03:49.470 --> 0:03:52.460 They were talking about the way that it's gone back 0:03:52.470 --> 0:03:55.130 and forth, back and forth. It's almost historical in itself, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.580 especially with that short amount of time. 0:03:58.420 --> 0:04:01.420 Yeah, well, it's interesting because as much as you hate 0:04:01.460 --> 0:04:03.940 the term blue tsunami, one of the reasons people are 0:04:04.060 --> 0:04:06.780 using it instead of blue wave is that It is 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.560 true to say in the midterms, the current president's party 0:04:10.660 --> 0:04:14.280 does usually lose seats, but this is a massive loss. 0:04:14.370 --> 0:04:18.330 This is like you lost Texas and Kansas. 0:04:18.730 --> 0:04:25.030 Yeah, you lost incumbents that have been there for Susan Collins' 0:04:25.050 --> 0:04:25.589 30-something years. 0:04:25.990 --> 0:04:30.500 Yeah, so it's not just a blue wave. It is 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.359 something bigger than that. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.740 I will say I've seen Republican talking heads calling it 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.400 the blue atomic bomb. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.570 But didn't Ron Santus call it an extinction event? 0:04:42.630 --> 0:04:43.770 Yes, yes. 0:04:44.430 --> 0:04:47.850 Which I might not disagree because in this election, and 0:04:47.870 --> 0:04:49.930 I don't talk about this later, I should have, the 0:04:50.010 --> 0:04:53.530 moderates are leaning blue. What we're seeing is a shift 0:04:53.670 --> 0:04:57.230 that they would consider themselves moderates leaning red, moderates in 0:04:57.270 --> 0:05:00.960 the specific being centrist are now leaning blue, and that 0:05:01.060 --> 0:05:04.250 did help. change a lot of the things that we 0:05:04.290 --> 0:05:08.670 are seeing, bring on this blue tide, essentially. And they 0:05:08.990 --> 0:05:10.920 are talking about the fact that they have made up 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.680 their minds, essentially, about what is happening and realizing this 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.419 is the sticking point. And now the conservative conversation is 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.370 that conservatism is so extreme that the moderates have become 0:05:22.380 --> 0:05:23.370 the new conservatives. 0:05:24.490 --> 0:05:26.289 Yeah, that makes sense to me. 0:05:26.670 --> 0:05:26.930 Right. 0:05:27.410 --> 0:05:29.440 So that and then when we have the. 0:05:30.460 --> 0:05:33.150 Democrats who are not as extreme, the two of them 0:05:33.190 --> 0:05:36.489 coming together still make it a Democratic look. So that's 0:05:36.850 --> 0:05:38.310 what we're shifting. And I think that it is shifting. 0:05:38.490 --> 0:05:42.750 I think what was created through Trump and his administration 0:05:42.910 --> 0:05:46.970 is now changing and shifting what is important and how 0:05:47.010 --> 0:05:51.540 we're looking at politics and parties. Different conversation. With that, 0:05:51.580 --> 0:05:54.200 let's talk about firsts because we're going to go down 0:05:54.220 --> 0:05:57.900 the list because there's a historic amount of firsts. And 0:05:57.980 --> 0:06:02.900 some of them are shameful. 2026 should not have been 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:03.200 the year. 0:06:03.220 --> 0:06:04.279 It should have been way before. 0:06:04.740 --> 0:06:05.080 Yeah. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.190 And this includes the first Black woman to become governor 0:06:09.370 --> 0:06:13.790 in the United States, point blank. And that's in Georgia 0:06:14.150 --> 0:06:17.830 with Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is now the elect governor. 0:06:18.210 --> 0:06:21.530 And thank God, Brian Kemp, even though he did act 0:06:21.550 --> 0:06:25.250 a little too MAGA for me. has understood the decorum 0:06:25.550 --> 0:06:28.510 of politics as, like, George Bush would have said, even 0:06:28.529 --> 0:06:30.010 though I don't like George Bush, don't get me wrong. 0:06:30.250 --> 0:06:32.010 I'm not praising him at all, but, you know, there 0:06:32.029 --> 0:06:33.130 was some decorum in. 0:06:33.110 --> 0:06:36.730 His style, I guess. 0:06:37.770 --> 0:06:40.650 I say that slyly. But with that saying that, no, 0:06:40.690 --> 0:06:43.980 they will not be doing any special sessions to try 0:06:44.010 --> 0:06:48.060 to rein in the governor's power or try to redistrict, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.900 which North Carolina did do and caused a lot of upheaval. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.060 as it should have. And he said, Kemp said very outright, 0:06:56.540 --> 0:07:00.799 I respect the voices of our voters and who they chose. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:02.119 So you know what? 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.670 Good for you to do what's just simply right. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:07.950 Your job, basically. 0:07:09.570 --> 0:07:11.590 Because I really didn't know if he would. Yeah. 0:07:11.830 --> 0:07:13.930 I mean, that's been the big thing about this is. 0:07:14.730 --> 0:07:17.730 Who's, I mean, he stood steadily. 0:07:18.630 --> 0:07:21.870 When Trump tried to get those votes, quote unquote, him 0:07:21.890 --> 0:07:24.390 and Roethlisberger, which they got like a lot of kudos. 0:07:24.710 --> 0:07:28.690 When honestly, it was just again, just human decency. Yeah, 0:07:28.710 --> 0:07:32.560 like the bare minimum of this is like. But you 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.440 know what? It could have gone completely south. And he 0:07:35.460 --> 0:07:38.500 did not do that, even though he was pro Rick Jackson. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.420 He understood it. As Keisha Lance Bottoms said, they do 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:43.300 get along in real life. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:43.980 And we see this. 0:07:44.020 --> 0:07:48.130 We see this in like Southern etiquette in general. And 0:07:48.210 --> 0:07:51.000 most people are so polite, but then they're like, politics 0:07:51.380 --> 0:07:55.100 would say that they were hateful racists who were burning crosses. 0:07:55.180 --> 0:07:58.400 Like, that's what it would seem like? Mm-hmm. 0:08:00.020 --> 0:08:03.470 But anyway, with that, yes, Keisha Lance Bottoms has become 0:08:03.490 --> 0:08:07.510 the first Black woman to become governor in the United States. 0:08:07.570 --> 0:08:11.720 And we celebrate that all damn day. Kudos and congratulations. 0:08:12.590 --> 0:08:15.230 We have Deb Haaland, who we have mentioned before and 0:08:15.250 --> 0:08:17.270 we need to bring back because we have talked about 0:08:17.330 --> 0:08:20.270 her being one of the first of two Native American 0:08:20.290 --> 0:08:21.410 women to be in the U.S. 0:08:21.690 --> 0:08:22.590 House of Representatives. 0:08:23.210 --> 0:08:26.880 And now she's the first Native American woman to become governor, 0:08:27.310 --> 0:08:27.890 point blank. 0:08:28.220 --> 0:08:28.720 Come on. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.760 So excited. So excited for this one. Congratulations to her. 0:08:33.860 --> 0:08:36.640 I know she's going to make amazing changes in New Mexico. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.800 Shout out to the voters. You know what's up. We 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.699 have Peggy Flanagan, who will be one of our activists 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.880 around the world. Because she became the first Native American 0:08:46.950 --> 0:08:50.589 woman to become U.S. Senator. And I already like the 0:08:50.610 --> 0:08:53.270 cut of her jib, as they say. She's already ready. 0:08:53.570 --> 0:08:56.929 She's already calling people out. That's what we like to see. 0:08:58.370 --> 0:08:59.110 Am I right? 0:09:00.250 --> 0:09:02.150 It's not about revenge. It's about justice. 0:09:03.750 --> 0:09:04.110 Yeah. 0:09:05.110 --> 0:09:06.200 It just looks like revenge. 0:09:07.050 --> 0:09:07.760 But it's justice. 0:09:07.860 --> 0:09:10.040 Right. 0:09:10.140 --> 0:09:13.370 And she's She's coming for it. And then we have 0:09:13.970 --> 0:09:18.230 Gina Hinojosa, who is the first Latin woman to become 0:09:18.309 --> 0:09:21.589 governor of Texas, unseating Greg Abbott. 0:09:22.110 --> 0:09:24.569 Again, I think we talked about this in the happy hour. 0:09:24.590 --> 0:09:26.000 We did talk about this in the happy hour, how 0:09:26.150 --> 0:09:30.980 I was completely thrown off by Texas, completely did not 0:09:31.020 --> 0:09:33.100 have any expectations of the way it went. 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.380 I really didn't think Tallarico would do as well as 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:40.319 he did. And y'all, y'all killed it. Texas, stepping up. 0:09:41.420 --> 0:09:42.800 I mean, like, what? 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:44.819 Yeah. 0:09:45.900 --> 0:09:46.760 It was beautiful. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.900 I was like, I didn't even know who she was. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.170 Exactly. That was one of the comments I saw a 0:09:52.309 --> 0:09:55.270 lot was, these were races I didn't even think were 0:09:55.309 --> 0:09:56.150 going to be close. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:02.760 No clue. I also love that Elon Musk has spent 0:10:03.260 --> 0:10:08.290 millions of dollars here in Texas against her and against 0:10:09.370 --> 0:10:13.059 Tallarico because he put his business there. Yeah. 0:10:13.380 --> 0:10:16.809 And he had those robots roaming the streets, and they 0:10:16.850 --> 0:10:20.590 would say stuff like, he's trying to kill data centers. 0:10:20.670 --> 0:10:24.410 Those are my family. Why would you think that would 0:10:24.590 --> 0:10:26.150 resonate with people? 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:27.440 That would make me want to kick it. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:27.980 Exactly. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:29.839 It would get kicked. It would get swiftly kicked. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:32.640 Well, then I'm going to vote for that guy. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:33.980 Yeah, like, good. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:35.500 What are you? You're a monster. 0:10:36.740 --> 0:10:38.500 I'm not letting you take over my body. 0:10:39.740 --> 0:10:40.740 Whatever. 0:10:40.900 --> 0:10:43.760 Then we have Chris Pappas, who's the first openly gay 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.400 man to become a senator. Congratulations, sir. I'm so proud 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.820 of you. Hopely thanking his husband during this acceptance speech. 0:10:52.179 --> 0:10:52.520 Joy. 0:10:53.300 --> 0:10:58.240 Joy. We already talked about Abdul El-Sahed, the first Muslim 0:10:58.260 --> 0:11:02.780 senator out of the United States. Dude ran a clean campaign. He.... 0:11:04.460 --> 0:11:05.140 Was amazing. 0:11:05.300 --> 0:11:08.020 And he stood up, he stood strong, and he has 0:11:08.570 --> 0:11:10.690 made sure to let him know what he is about, 0:11:10.830 --> 0:11:15.150 let them know. Again, come out swinging, already talking about 0:11:15.270 --> 0:11:20.819 Watch It Schumer. Yes, please. Talking about change, talking about differences, 0:11:21.010 --> 0:11:24.520 and I love every bit of that. He said Habibi 0:11:24.700 --> 0:11:25.500 to J.D. Vance. 0:11:26.300 --> 0:11:31.800 Yes, and Samantha and I were off mic, thanking Super 0:11:31.820 --> 0:11:37.100 producer Rima, who introduced us to that at a karaoke night. 0:11:37.460 --> 0:11:38.260 It was very wonderful. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.929 I think I got a video of Rima doing an 0:11:41.990 --> 0:11:45.910 amazing Arabic song and making sure that we sing along 0:11:45.990 --> 0:11:47.110 with the Habibi chorus. 0:11:48.210 --> 0:11:50.849 It was quite delightful. Yeah, Rima, I got it. 0:11:51.990 --> 0:11:53.349 Is this blackmail? 0:11:53.570 --> 0:11:54.429 No, no, just letting you know. 0:11:55.030 --> 0:11:55.710 It was joyful. 0:11:55.730 --> 0:12:11.840 Okay. Then we have Amy Acton, the first woman governor 0:12:11.980 --> 0:12:16.400 of Ohio, who had to go through an intense. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.819 Again, this is one of those... The. 0:12:20.070 --> 0:12:24.150 Other ones were comically mean and ridiculous to me. The 0:12:24.450 --> 0:12:31.120 ads and the smear campaign. But, oh my God. This 0:12:31.460 --> 0:12:36.720 one was below the belt. Even people who probably were 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:41.150 not planning to vote for her... was like, oh, oh, oh, no, 0:12:41.309 --> 0:12:45.080 you can't, you can't do that. So if you don't 0:12:45.100 --> 0:12:47.640 know what I'm talking about, in Ohio, there has been 0:12:47.660 --> 0:12:51.540 a campaign back and forth with Vivek Ramaswamy, who you 0:12:51.580 --> 0:12:54.059 may remember, he's been a bad player and he's been 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.940 a big fan of MAGA, big fan of Trump. He 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.870 loves some Trump. And he has always played dirty. He is, 0:13:00.929 --> 0:13:02.850 I believe, is he a tech billionaire? 0:13:03.730 --> 0:13:05.790 I'm not sure, but I know he was involved with Doge. 0:13:06.690 --> 0:13:09.530 And as with a lot of these candidates that lost, 0:13:09.630 --> 0:13:13.130 he was a big Trump supporter. Like the whole time 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:20.900 when they were having the primaries in 2024, he was 0:13:20.940 --> 0:13:23.959 the only one of the Republican candidates that supported Trump. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.860 And so that's why a lot of these candidates Trump 0:13:26.900 --> 0:13:30.150 was like, It's this one. And everybody else was like, actually, 0:13:30.250 --> 0:13:31.150 maybe not that one. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:32.390 Maybe not this one. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.420 No, so he was, okay, so he looks like he 0:13:34.620 --> 0:13:37.100 is a biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.220 So he is a tech pharmaceutical millionaire. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.020 I could be wrong, though. I feel like he might 0:13:43.059 --> 0:13:47.500 be one of those guys that was basically invested some money, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.080 did nothing with it. Other people made the thing. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.280 Oh, probably. Oh, yeah. When I say he was in there, 0:13:53.380 --> 0:13:55.760 I mean, again, if he's the millionaire, that means he 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.660 is the CEO. He doesn't know anything and he's just 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.250 making money. Yeah. Yeah. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.590 So I didn't know that. 0:14:00.630 --> 0:14:04.750 But he came out with an ad with Amy Acton's 0:14:04.870 --> 0:14:08.750 mother who had turned out they had been estranged for 0:14:08.750 --> 0:14:11.290 50 years. And the mother sitting there old and decrepit 0:14:11.330 --> 0:14:14.010 saying like, oh, she's a liar. You can't trust her. 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.040 She made up things as a kid and da, da, da. 0:14:16.420 --> 0:14:18.490 And later it comes out, oh, This woman hasn't talked 0:14:18.510 --> 0:14:21.350 to him in 50 years because her current husband, actually, 0:14:21.410 --> 0:14:26.510 until he died, her former, whatever, husband had been molesting 0:14:27.050 --> 0:14:29.460 Amy Acton to the point that he actually did get 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:33.660 indicted and then ran away. And the mother hit him 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.600 and called Amy Acton a liar. 0:14:36.620 --> 0:14:38.700 Yeah. And she lost custody. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.880 She lost custody. And the brother came out and was like, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.060 first of all, my sister. 0:14:46.620 --> 0:14:51.140 Like, he was like, this woman is evil. Yeah, that 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.870 did not go over well. I will say, I don't 0:14:53.900 --> 0:14:57.710 know who told him to put this ad together and 0:14:57.870 --> 0:14:59.590 actually play it. 0:15:00.790 --> 0:15:03.380 That's the thing is it's like. Are you so out 0:15:03.420 --> 0:15:05.640 of touch or do you hate this man and want 0:15:05.660 --> 0:15:09.360 to take him down? But Trump did say he was 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.130 a big defender of it. He was like, well, if 0:15:11.210 --> 0:15:13.930 I could get my mom to say that, you know 0:15:13.970 --> 0:15:16.030 the Democrats would put it on. And then he looks 0:15:16.110 --> 0:15:18.720 up to the skies and said, but my mom loved me. 0:15:19.380 --> 0:15:20.120 Thanks, Mom. 0:15:20.420 --> 0:15:26.190 He's such a strange person. But and then when a reporter. 0:15:25.750 --> 0:15:27.770 Called him out and was like, hey, what about the 0:15:27.810 --> 0:15:30.590 fact that she was sexually abused by him, by the stepfather? 0:15:30.610 --> 0:15:31.870 He's like, quit interrupting. 0:15:32.090 --> 0:15:34.979 Quit. You're so nasty. You're too new. You're too young. 0:15:35.020 --> 0:15:38.800 I'm like, yeah, I can't even say. I mean, are 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.720 we surprised by the fact that the dude who has 0:15:42.940 --> 0:15:45.840 women coming out talking about how he has raped them 0:15:46.060 --> 0:15:49.760 and molested them as a children would not want to 0:15:49.870 --> 0:15:50.750 answer that question? 0:15:50.770 --> 0:15:50.830 No. 0:15:52.170 --> 0:15:52.310 No. 0:15:54.590 --> 0:15:55.450 Does it make me sick? 0:15:55.470 --> 0:15:56.850 Yeah. Yes. 0:15:57.490 --> 0:15:59.610 There's a lot about this that makes me real sick. 0:16:00.490 --> 0:16:01.530 But is it surprising? 0:16:01.590 --> 0:16:01.790 No. 0:16:02.550 --> 0:16:06.710 I will say, I'm glad that people, it's such a 0:16:06.790 --> 0:16:09.290 sad thing to be glad about, but I'm glad that 0:16:09.350 --> 0:16:11.010 people genuinely were like, that's gross. 0:16:11.510 --> 0:16:11.750 Yeah. 0:16:11.970 --> 0:16:14.850 Because, you know, sometimes they're like, oh, yeah, she is 0:16:14.870 --> 0:16:18.230 a liar. We don't believe her. But in this case, 0:16:18.270 --> 0:16:21.350 they seem to be like, no, that was wrong. That 0:16:21.370 --> 0:16:23.550 was a real gross thing to do. 0:16:23.570 --> 0:16:28.270 Yeah. Bringing a woman, because here's a thing that we 0:16:28.290 --> 0:16:31.690 have talked about many, many times is, don't get me wrong, 0:16:31.750 --> 0:16:34.590 the mother is completely wrong and disgusting and should be 0:16:34.830 --> 0:16:40.030 held accountable. However, people, the general population will blame a 0:16:40.090 --> 0:16:44.120 woman first. And if it's blaming the mother or father 0:16:44.380 --> 0:16:48.280 for not protecting a child, mother's always going to get hate, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.720 no matter what. So that wasn't even smart on any 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.630 level to put her on. Even if she was an old, 0:16:54.650 --> 0:16:56.630 decrepit woman. You really thought he was going to get 0:16:56.650 --> 0:16:57.580 sympathy because she was old. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:03.920 I keep putting decrepit in there. Your emotions are leaking. 0:17:03.940 --> 0:17:04.660 I said what I said. 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.960 Watch the video and tell me I'm wrong. That was 0:17:07.980 --> 0:17:14.449 such a traumatic thing to bring back. Yeah. 0:17:14.930 --> 0:17:19.030 Like, she did not respond for a while, which was smart. Instead, 0:17:19.050 --> 0:17:23.860 people started showing records. I'm sure maybe her camp shoot 0:17:24.170 --> 0:17:27.100 went through that, but they probably did it in order 0:17:27.180 --> 0:17:29.260 for her not to have to speak out first because 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:33.140 I couldn't imagine. Yeah. And to see your mother still 0:17:33.180 --> 0:17:35.739 defending that man and still calling you a liar, oh 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.200 my God. And that's what people were like, oh my God, 0:17:38.940 --> 0:17:40.419 she's already had to deal with this and now you 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.389 put it on national TV? Yeah. 0:17:45.170 --> 0:17:49.940 All those years later... And, you know, you're trying to 0:17:51.660 --> 0:17:53.340 move on, do the healing. 0:17:54.060 --> 0:17:55.570 Like, that could have been a platform she used. I 0:17:55.609 --> 0:17:57.890 was a victim, but I survived. And she didn't necessarily 0:17:57.910 --> 0:18:00.270 do that. And now, like, she had to. 0:18:00.350 --> 0:18:03.250 Yeah. Yeah. 0:18:03.430 --> 0:18:06.409 Amy Acton. Class Acton. 0:18:06.780 --> 0:18:07.540 She deserved that win. 0:18:08.540 --> 0:18:11.800 Then we have two other states that have their first 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:16.139 Black governor. Wisconsin and Nevada. So in Wisconsin, it was 0:18:16.180 --> 0:18:19.920 David Crowley. And then in Nevada is Aaron Ford. 0:18:20.660 --> 0:18:21.940 We also have. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:26.879 The first Black governor for Florida. He's a Republican. So 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.199 Byron Donalds did. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.560 Break down barriers, I guess. I mean, he did. I 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.720 don't think most of the Black communities are celebrating this, though. 0:18:40.140 --> 0:18:42.020 And I know they're not. I know they're not. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.240 So it feels hard to say, like... It was a win. 0:18:45.619 --> 0:18:46.040 Yeah. 0:18:46.140 --> 0:18:50.080 Yeah. It's one of those things that comes up when 0:18:50.100 --> 0:18:53.540 we're doing, like, first of something. Like, oh, first woman 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.260 who did this. And then you find out she was 0:18:55.580 --> 0:18:57.100 racist or whatever, whatever. 0:18:57.140 --> 0:18:58.500 I mean, yes. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.699 Essentially, that's what we are going to talk about. Actually, 0:19:02.770 --> 0:19:05.469 we are going to hopefully re-release, or if you have already, 0:19:05.790 --> 0:19:08.609 Behind the Bastards. My episode was specifically about the first 0:19:08.690 --> 0:19:13.609 technical woman senator in the country. And she was a 0:19:14.230 --> 0:19:15.610 giant racist who was. 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:16.300 All about lynching. 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:16.460 So.... 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.740 You know, it's like, we don't want that on the books. 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:28.410 Right. That one is not, let's just erase that. We'll 0:19:28.590 --> 0:19:31.210 remember it in terms of let's not let this happen again, 0:19:31.550 --> 0:19:33.490 but let's not celebrate it. 0:19:33.530 --> 0:19:35.669 We'll just put a dot here. Can we just put 0:19:35.690 --> 0:19:37.130 the caveat dot here? 0:19:37.150 --> 0:19:39.909 I will say, we talked about Amy Acton, but there 0:19:39.930 --> 0:19:42.950 were also two other states that had their first female governor, 0:19:43.230 --> 0:19:47.830 and one's in Minnesota with Lisa DeMuth. And then we 0:19:47.869 --> 0:19:56.679 have the Republican... governor, Marsha Blackburn, in Tennessee. Oh, no. Yeah. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:19:58.940 Tennessee, we see you. 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.980 We know you're working hard as well. So, again, it's 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:07.410 that level of like, oh, breaking glass ceilings, but you 0:20:07.430 --> 0:20:08.950 also want to take away women's rights. 0:20:10.070 --> 0:20:10.790 That's weird. 0:20:12.250 --> 0:20:12.750 Yeah. 0:20:13.910 --> 0:20:15.490 You just have to kind of like do a little 0:20:16.090 --> 0:20:21.110 shoulder shrug. And sadly, but also celebrating, these first come 0:20:21.170 --> 0:20:24.780 along with the highest number of Black women in the 0:20:24.859 --> 0:20:28.740 Senate ever. And it's sad because the number is three, 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.780 meaning that's the highest number of Black women in the Senate. Three. 0:20:34.140 --> 0:20:36.140 Three Black women in the Senate right now. And that's 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.419 the highest ever that has ever been, which is. 0:20:41.300 --> 0:20:44.740 A lot of these have that feeling, as you said, 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:45.899 at the top. Right. 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:47.480 Like, it's 2026. 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:47.850 Really? 0:20:48.530 --> 0:20:49.510 That's the highest? 0:20:50.150 --> 0:20:51.490 Okay. Okay. 0:20:51.750 --> 0:20:53.730 But, I mean, we're going to take the win. 0:20:55.030 --> 0:20:55.310 Yeah. 0:20:55.930 --> 0:20:56.270 But damn. 0:20:56.330 --> 0:20:58.810 Progress. Progress. 0:20:58.850 --> 0:20:59.389 Progress. 0:20:59.690 --> 0:21:01.530 The inching progress in 2026. 0:21:01.530 --> 0:21:03.450 Yeah. 0:21:04.340 --> 0:21:06.300 And I will say, there has been a record number 0:21:06.340 --> 0:21:10.729 of women who have become elected officials, and it is 0:21:11.310 --> 0:21:14.310 vast and growing quickly. And I love everything about this. 0:21:14.650 --> 0:21:18.710