Hello, media consumers. Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of the Ringer here. David Joe Biden

just gave his victory speech in Wilmington, Delaware. He will become the next president

of the United States. And I got just one thing to say to you, the old guy still got it.

Oh, yeah, I'm glad we got there so quickly. Yeah, it was a hell of a speech. It was a hell of a

speech. Vice president, elect Harris gave a very good, a brief speech to open things up.

You know, everybody who's listening to this podcast, I'm sure has been doing the same thing we've

been doing for the past, what, five days, which is just sitting in increasingly in control

positions on our furniture, watching a flip back and forth between all the cable channels to see,

you know, who's going to call Pennsylvania first. We all know that this was a speech they

had tentatively planned for last night, or there was a speech and this felt like the one they,

you know, they had planned on giving last night, turned out to be sort of a holding note. But

however long they had this one in the, you know, in the hopper, it was a, as it was incredible

performance and just an incredible night. Can I say the thing that struck me most about Joe Biden

tonight is that he was for the first time I can remember in this campaign truly joyful.

He has had to be such a heavy presence throughout this campaign talking about coronavirus,

talking about threats to democracy, that talking about the economy. Tonight, he seemed happy.

He seemed like that sort of joyous Uncle Joe character that we knew during the Obama years.

Yeah. And I've missed that Joe Biden and it was great to hear that tonight.

Yeah, I mean, we saw some of that, some of that in the campaigns with Obama, but, you know,

there's a lot to be said for relief and for the amount of pressure that he was, you know,

obviously under this is a, and also the stakes. I mean, that's, that goes to the pressure too.

The stakes of this election were really high. Kamala Harris didn't hesitate at all to brand it.

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