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Hello, I'm Amanda Duberman. I'm Sammy Sage. And this is the Betch's sub podcast where C-SPAN meets the group chat to help you process and laugh at the biggest topics in US news and politics.

It is Monday. We just had the last weekend before the last weekend before midterms. How how are your nerves, Sammy? Oh, they are afraid at the edge of the attack on the speaker's husband.

With a hammer that definitely didn't help waking up to that news on Friday morning. Things are just real weird. Elon Musk kicking over the company the day of the speaker's attack. There's a dark energy. Yeah, don't love it. And it's kind of like anything could happen at any moment. Don't put your phone away too long.

It does feel that way, especially with this first story, which I saw right before we got on, which just felt like I was like glitching like like like the simulation got something wrong.

Sammy, tell me why we're on to Santas is in our backyard. Possibly like very close to your literal backyard. Florida, Governor, Ron, Santas is currently in New York campaigning for Republican gubernatorial candidate, Lee Zeldin. I hate this.

Do you know where he's campaigning? I don't know. It just said it was in Long Island. It was like where he's from.

It's in your backyard. Big news. I figured out last week that I had been redistricted to Lee Zeldin's district. He is my fucking representative now.

And wow. Now you know how it feels. Well, I immediately I'm like, okay, well, we're switching our vote to here. And since I'm not going to vote in the city, which I plan to do.

Right. Do an absentee ballot. So now we are voting here. And yeah, you had time to you had time to change it and fix it. That's great.

Well, all I had to do was change the address. And then I can go to early voting. I mean, I are going at 730 on Wednesday going to early voting. And you can like on the spot, register your change of address.

And yeah, so I had to like, yeah, it was annoying, but it's worth it. Yeah.

Everywhere early voting is everywhere. Like this is the week. I've been trying to frame people. It's like the election is not on November 8th. It ends on November 8th. Why would you wait?

I I need to make a plan and do it this week. I always wait until election day. And then I'm stressed all day about if I'm like, what if I forget?

What if something something happens? I can't. So I need I definitely, but yeah, it's definitely that weird phase where it's like the ads on TV are crazy.

And yeah, it's so desperate. Ron the Santas is in New York City telling us that Florida is exactly what we could be.

Barack Obama is every bit everywhere saying whatever it is, it is the time.

Yeah, no, I know it's getting I can tell when people are paying attention when I start getting DMs from like good outer circle people who are like, how bad is this?

Or like, you know, and that's that's kind of plays into my theory about like why I do not trust the polls at all. And like I'm trying to ignore pretty much any stories about them as best I can.

Because I don't I think that like we're used to only thinking that people are engaged in voting if they're like flipping out on their Instagram.

And they're like wearing a pink pussy hat, but like we have said that the yassification of voting is over.

It's now in the phase of shut up and vote. No one, you know, don't talk about your shit. Just like go vote and like you only talk to your friends about it.

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