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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of mid

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Speaker 1: term elect trend Results AKA I took what to pole

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Speaker 1: trend um, that's what that's what called if it was

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Speaker 1: an election result. But we will we will talk about

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Speaker 1: poland you will explain it to me or not. Let's

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Speaker 1: just let it be a mystery, you know. Anyways, the

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Speaker 1: mid terms. This is our first episode since the mid

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Speaker 1: terms results came in. Um. Yeah, we just don't know technically,

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Speaker 1: quite literally what the balance is going to be of

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Speaker 1: the House or Senate as of this time. A lot

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Speaker 1: of races too close to call. Dr Oz though that

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Speaker 1: was a big l he took. We do not exist

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Speaker 1: in the timeline in the Schroedeger's Cat timeline where the

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Speaker 1: Doctor Oz is alive inside the box. Doctor Oz is

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Speaker 1: no longer and we'll cover this on the main episode tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: but I do just want to give you all this

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Speaker 1: little audio feast to nibble on. As Fox News was

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Speaker 1: trying to understand why did doctor Oz lose when it

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Speaker 1: comes to the state of Pennsylvania. Why did Doctor Oz loose? Well,

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Speaker 1: it looks like according to the exit polling, it's because

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Speaker 1: federman one. Yeah, damn, I don't know. They we're gonna

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Speaker 1: dig that deep into the number. God is okay, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, there's a lot there. I think there's

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Speaker 1: a lot to take from the election, like whether that's

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Speaker 1: you know, people understanding what kind of existential threats existed

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Speaker 1: and they voted accordingly. Yeah, I mean, people aren't as

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Speaker 1: stupid as the mainstream media wants you to believe a

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Speaker 1: lot of the time, and preserving bodily autonomy is a

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Speaker 1: winning issue, it turns out in a lot of cases, um,

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Speaker 1: and preserving democracy and repudiation of like que mega bullshit

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Speaker 1: seems to also a winning issue, or at least not

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Speaker 1: uh you know, it's not a losing it. It's not

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Speaker 1: a thing where like, okay, the Republicans bring a bunch

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Speaker 1: of to election results doubting people into statewide elections and

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Speaker 1: and just like ride the Trump wave, that does not

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Speaker 1: appear to be the case to be diminishing returns on

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Speaker 1: the whole. Whatever Trump's ego tells us to say is

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Speaker 1: what we say. Yeah, I know, there's just a lot

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Speaker 1: of a lot of head scratching going on, especially again

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Speaker 1: for Trump, who, like I think most if not all

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Speaker 1: of his picks just completely nose dived at the end there.

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Speaker 1: So this will be very interesting to see how this

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Speaker 1: affects the presidential nomination for the Republicans, because everybody's like

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Speaker 1: finger pointing on the New York Post or Fox or

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Speaker 1: whatever is saying it's a guy from Trafalgars fucking pulling

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Speaker 1: or it's fucking Rump and his whatever. Uh, and then

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Speaker 1: the other side of it is like, but Rhonda Santis

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Speaker 1: of eyes, a lot of flirty eyes being made at

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Speaker 1: Rhonda Santis from the you know, right wing media apparatus. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean to the point that they're they're even saying,

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Speaker 1: like will Trump even announced on this coming Tuesday, like

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Speaker 1: he had planned because this is the weakest he's ever

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Speaker 1: looked after after these mid terms, And like Laura Trump

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Speaker 1: was on fucking Fox last night. She was truly doing that.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't punch a man with glasses, would you come

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Speaker 1: by like trying to contend with Like, Yo, that was

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Speaker 1: a big al. I just wanted to play this, but

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Speaker 1: she's like, we're ready for Donald Trump, right, folks, this

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Speaker 1: is her last night, and do we need to change

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Speaker 1: course and we need to do it quickly? So I

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Speaker 1: think if there's ever a time people are ready for

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump to come back, it could be right now.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens on Tuesday. Um yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: after the result. I think that was like as they

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Speaker 1: definitely not your usual candidate from like having policies that

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Speaker 1: people's lives, to his style that he brought definitely outside

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Speaker 1: l A, there were a lot of local wins. Former

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Speaker 1: But it really remains to be seen whether the democratic

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Speaker 1: mainstream media polster side is going to be like so

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Speaker 1: actually like do stuff for people seems to be you know,

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Speaker 1: actually learned that lesson, I could just as easily see, uh,

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Speaker 1: So that's what that's what did it for us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Um so I'm sure there'll be a way to kind

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Speaker 1: if you really put the pedal to the metal and

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Speaker 1: But again, uh, that's why I don't work in politics anymore,

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Speaker 1: and I'm over here player hating from the sidelines. But

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Speaker 1: it does seem like one of the narratives I'm seeing

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Speaker 1: What happened is that this was like a win. All

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Speaker 1: their pickups were like Jerrymander districts, or most of their

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Speaker 1: and cheated at the game and got away with it

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Speaker 1: better than we did. Is the winning talking point that

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Speaker 1: mainstream Democrats seem to think it is. Yeah, I do

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Speaker 1: want to shout out, you know, there are a lot

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Speaker 1: even at those smaller races, people are like actually connecting

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Speaker 1: address homelessness as opposed to you know, actually preventative preventative stuff. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I do think the idea of if you're able

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Speaker 1: to say I'm not part of that status quo, the

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Speaker 1: like Democratic Party that is like run by Wall Street,

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Speaker 1: because who knows how it's going to be spun or

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Speaker 1: even like the results are still early stages. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: It's also going to be a weird one too, because

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Speaker 1: that I'm I don't know. So one day at a time.

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Speaker 1: But you know, as it stands, things are still a

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Speaker 1: bit up in the air, but you know they're there

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Speaker 1: was definitely not a red wave. Yeah. Um. According to

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Speaker 1: inside sources, Donald Trump is livid and screaming at everyone

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Speaker 1: over Tuesday night's midterm results. That's what a Trump advisor

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Speaker 1: like now in the runoff, that could that could harm

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Speaker 1: herschell Walker. But Trump also not announcing on his predicted timeline,

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Speaker 1: I do like that they're saying they were all bad candidates.

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Speaker 1: Candidates matter because um. Hopefully they continue to double down

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Speaker 1: our party has worked to assist radically dismantled people's rights

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Speaker 1: But one thing that seems to have changed is like

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Speaker 1: which is like analyzing, like what what's different about gen Z?

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Speaker 1: Why did they turn out? And the answers the same

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Speaker 1: it about millennials? We walked into a fucking just dead

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Speaker 1: we began we began questioning a lot of things. The

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Speaker 1: world is ending. That's something new about this generation. The

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Speaker 1: You've got a lot of gen Z kids who were

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Speaker 1: of like the oh eight recession, and also being like

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Speaker 1: Billie Eilish, Is it the policies of this country? Is

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Speaker 1: front page of our newspapers and news websites. The DNC

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Speaker 1: can hire me, and I'll say, like, real, bro, I

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Speaker 1: have a really easy litmus test that we can use

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Speaker 1: for your candidates. If I say I took the walk

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Speaker 1: to Poland, what does that mean to and then quick,

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Speaker 1: thirty minutes ago, I would have been not a viable candidate.

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Speaker 1: But I am currently a viable candidate, and I'm happy

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Speaker 1: to say I'm not gonna do what the you know

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Speaker 1: pod save guys talk about look through your phone. Who

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Speaker 1: do you know. I'm gonna look at your Spotify what

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Speaker 1: we're listening to? That's what the fuck listen to? Old

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Speaker 1: Bob Dylan? Come on, man, where's your turn up music? Anyway?

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