Gahe, humans. We have a treat for you today. Man, is this a treat? I loved listening to this.

I say I loved listening to this rather than recording this because I don't recall much about recording it since I recorded it the day after Trump won his first presidential election race in 2016.

Barack Obama was still the president of the United States, and the first person who I

spoke to after Trump's victory, when we were all in a state of shock, I was still living in

New York City, was David Plotz.

He's the guy I went to try to process what we were all feeling and to try to prognosticate

about what a first Trump term might look like.

You just have to sort of cast your mind back to the inevitability of the Hillary victory and the sense that the United

States was just on this sort of progressive path to realize how blindsided we were. And this is

absolutely fascinating. This is a time capsule. I mean, look, I don't want to talk it up too much.

Maybe you'll hate it. But in listening for what we got right and what we got

wrong in our prognostications, it's super useful in understanding what we might be getting right

and might be getting wrong today. It's fascinating to hear us talk about Putin and about Eastern

Europe and almost to be dismissive of the possibility of Putin taking another gamble

on Ukraine. It's fascinating for us to speculate about what Trump might do with the economy

and whether he might support, you know, rural and regional workers. Anyway, it's like you've been

given a time portal to parachute back into the minds of where we were

immediately after the first time Trump was elected.

I don't know what's going to happen on Tuesday, but I just thought amidst all of the cacophony

of everything else that you're hearing, you might want to take a breath and you might

want to just hear something a little bit left field.

This has nothing to do

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