Hello and welcome to another episode of Aiway with Jameela Jamel, a podcast against shame.

You might be able to hear my voice that I am very unwell.

I've had the flu for about five days now and also a kidney stone and neither are really getting better.

And I only just discovered why and that's because I've been taking painkillers

all week, and you take them every four hours, and I take the maximum dose because I'm very

tall, and I just haven't slept in about four or five days, and I didn't know why. And then it was

only last night that I realized, oh shit, when a painkiller says extra on it, that doesn't always

mean extra painkiller. Sometimes that means caffeine. So I've been having basically eight coffees

a day without realizing it and then not understanding why I'm lying awake in agony and misery

all night. And when you don't sleep, you don't heal. You don't just

not get better. You get worse. And so that's what my life has been like for the past week,

which is great because the election in the United States was simply not stressful or horrific

enough. So now I'm really feeling the full force of the punishment of it all and how

horrific the world is. Anyway, today is a terrifying day. Today has terrifying consequences,

regardless of which way it goes, but especially in one direction. And I think I'm torn as to whether or not I am that out of touch twat celebrity who dares to tell anyone what to do with their vote.

But also, I don't know if I can live with myself if I don't keep making the effort to try to steer us towards the vaguely better outcome, which is simply being able to have the option

to vote ever again. Because if Donald Trump wins, he said, that's going to be it for elections.

And everyone just has to vote him in one last time and then that will be it. And I don't think

he has a plan to allow more fair elections

to happen. I think that will be it. And the Democrats, I understand every reason that people

have for wanting to abstain or wanting to vote for a third party candidate. I completely,

completely hear you. But the third party candidate has simply come along

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