Hello and welcome to episode 166 of the Thinking Elseat Podcast in Los Angeles. I'm Nathan Fox with me in Vienna,

Virginia. It was Ben Olson. Ben you super excited about the election results?

I actually am not. I haven't checked them even I'm in Washington DC today though.

Oh you are oh shit yeah yeah no no worries In the nation's capital, newly elected Ben Olson. Yes, I was called

to DC. No, I voted for Libertarian candidates and I knew they would lose and I don't have a strong opinion about the outcome of yesterday's election.

So I haven't even looked.

Yeah, I kind of looked just because it's all over Twitter.

So I know that the Democrats won the House

and the Republicans kept the Senate and I just looked at it all

and I was like, you know, I really don't give a shit.

It doesn't, like, it has, I really don't give a shit. It doesn't, like it has just doesn't really have any practical effect on my life.

The, our government is designed for gridlock and we are having gridlock.

Yeah, yeah, no, that's true. I don't know that I would notice any

different if Republicans had retained power in the house or had lost power in the

Senate I I don't know if or had lost power in the Senate.

I don't know if anything would be any different.

Yeah.

I've lived through several worst presidents of my lifetime already.

Like basically everyone always thinks that, you know, half the country always thinks that whoever's the president is the worst president of all time.

Sure.

You're old enough to know that, Ben.

And so, you know, like, I remember when everybody was just absolutely hysterical about George W Bush,

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