Welcome everyone to today's episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. Amanda's

here with me. We're doing a special post-election episode, not our normal stuff with clips and

all of that. This is a rapid response. This is more like the bonus shows that we do usually

just for members, but this is going out to everyone. The primary reason for this is not because we have

really important rapid response that people need to hear. I think we have some interesting things to

say, but also it's totally outside of our capacity to make a real show right now. Yeah, that's true.

After these couple of weeks that we've had, and so just to give a sense, I mean, like many of you, I

think, we've been watching cable news for three and a half days, not our normal style. Yeah, I mean, you

know, mixed in with some other stuff, but yeah, it's been a lot of cable news because they're the ones

doing all the numbers. Yeah, and personally, I feel like when I watch cable news, which is usually when

we're visiting family that watches cable news, that it's sort of like being in a coma, just like a

short one, just like a few days in a coma when you wake up and realize that time has passed and you

don't know how or where it went. And you certainly didn't absorb anything new or interesting in the

meantime. Yeah, this is like Vegas, like walking into a casino and they just suddenly you've been

there for days and you don't remember most of them. Yeah, it's kind of like that. And I feel like,

look, if I were a conspiratorially minded person, I would suggest that, you know, the media had

something to do with designing this election the way it has come out because it could not be

better for them from a business model perspective. True. It's not election day, it's election week.

Yeah. Think of the ratings comparatively. Yeah, everyone's tuning in every five seconds to see

what's the latest. What's the latest? They're constantly promising that, you know, the next big reveal

will be just after the next break. And it never is. It's the world's worst soap opera.

Where nothing actually happens. And there is news happening. And I mean, there's like so much

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