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Hello, hello. This is fake the nation. And we're doing a bonus because we recorded the main episode before the election results came in, and I really

wanted to talk about the election results. And to do that, I'm joined by the excellent veteran

of fake the nation, excellent comedian, producer and writer. He is the wonderful Benari Lee Poulton.

Hey, Benari. Hey, Nagin. It's so great to be here to do what I feel like this show is supposed to do, which is we only do optimism.

We only do optimism, by the way, I'm wearing my, we're only doing optimism t-shirt.

By the way, much love to fake the nation listeners who send me photos of themselves wearing their t-shirt. By the way, much love to fake the nation listeners who send me photos of themselves

wearing their t-shirt during election night. This is like, I just want to say, an excellent

group of people who listen to this show and believe in democracy. That's just like the,

are the two, you know,

the vet diagram.

And let's just say big picture here in the last, say, 36 hours.

Yeah.

A lot has happened that's been very pro-democracy, big and little D.

Yeah.

So Benari, this was a bad night for Donald Trump,

but this was a great night for literally everyone else, including people who support Donald Trump, but they don't know that we have elected people who believe in being representatives for everyone in their, you know, states and cities.

You know, let's start with the New York City results.

I read a New York Times headline this morning, which I was just like, I can't believe

I'm reading this headline.

The headlines said, would New York City elect a Muslim mayor an emphatic yes?

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