This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silver's. You're listening to Pantsu Politics, where we take a different approach to the news. Thanks so much for joining us today. We are two weeks from Election Day. Lots of people already

voting as we'll discuss. Presidential race is a coin toss as close as it can possibly be. So today we are going to talk about what that period

between Election Day and the inauguration might look like since we've had some

experience with that in recent years and we have some indicators of some

experience with that in recent years, and we have some indicators of what it might be looking like this time.

And then we're going to zoom out and talk about the state of democracy worldwide,

and a lot of really encouraging as well as concerning signs and

lessons that we can take from the many other elections that have been held this year.

Outside of politics, we're going to talk about a piece that suggests that you write your own obituary every year.

Now, spoiler alert, we're probably not going to do that anytime soon here, but we do have an interesting discussion about the passage of time and

superstition and the power of language and you know characteristically wide-ranging

things. Before we dive in we have two important things to remind you of first we have a live show in Boston

on Thursday, November 7th during that in-between period of election day

and inauguration we're joining Vanessa Zeltan from Harry Potter and the Sacred Text for a great night together where we will process the election and the days following in real time.

Tickets are on sale now. Even if you can't join us in person, there is a virtual live stream option, so make sure and grab that.

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