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My name happens to be Kid Midas, the original wave rider, and I'm joined on the line all the way down south in North Carolina by Long John Silver.

Long John, do I have you on the line?

Hey, I'm here. How's everyone doing out there in podcast land? I got to say, 24 hours ago,

I was dreading this post-midterms episode. Why? I just assumed that we would be weeping and crying and moaning and groaning after being drowned by a red wave.

But you said that maybe something interesting would happen.

Yeah.

Do you remember that last week?

You were speaking to like one of America's leading political analysts.

I don't know if you'll remember this conversation, but that analyst said something along

the lines of surprising things have been known to happen and may well continue to happen

into the future.

I kind of think that guy nailed it, for real.

Yeah, he kind of did.

For once in his life, he proclaimed something that turned out to be true.

Yes.

And that analyst's name, friends, is Kid Midd's the original wave ride.

You drop this, King.

And that's also coincidentally my name because I am that self-same analyst.

I did it. I knew something was going to happen. This could have been so much worse. This could have been so, so much worse. I'm in a good mood. Yeah. Yeah. I was up, I don't know, until four or five in the morning. I could not sleep. I was so pumped last night. Just delirious.

Waking everybody up in the household, delirious. It's probably the most surprising election other than 2016 in my life. And it was one of those nights where the later it got, the better it looked.

Right. I mean, and it was just widespread. It was, I mean, to me, it was like 2016 in reverse. At 4 p.m. yesterday, if you were just feeling the conventional wisdom, the vibe on

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