Gooday, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. And there are a few ideas

more dangerous than some of the more extreme ones that have been concocted by certain individuals

over the past four years who wanted to ensure that Donald Trump would not once again lose

a US election. I want to give you a kind of

survival guide today for how you should watch the election unfold next week, what you should

make of what will inevitably be a confusing tsunami of different allegations on election night and probably

in the days after. And what you should know now about the plans that exist and that will unfold

in some capacity depending on what happens on election day. Matt Bevan is an ABC journalist who is one of the wonkiest, most delightful nerds

about the minutia of American politics you have ever heard.

He is currently, as I speak, on a plane to the United States where he'll be completing

the final season of his smash hit ABC audio show and podcast, which is called

If You're Listening. It began as a show called Russia If You're Listening, and it was an investigation

into the allegations of a Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. And he's done a number of seasons

on different aspects of American politics. and the latest is called America's

last election and the first few episodes have already dropped. It is absolutely riveting,

absolutely captivating about the cast of characters stretching back for decades who have all come

together and coalesced around some of these frankly hairbrained constitutional

schemes to make it very, very difficult for there to be a cultural consensus and a legal

consensus around a Democrat winning the White House.

It's critical that you understand how these things have been set up before the election

comes around. I want you to arm yourself with these facts. I want you to stay sane on election night.

This episode is your toolkit, really, against those schemes, those schemes to sow confusion and

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