You're not going to be here. Hello, my name is Brad Nishi, associate professor, religious studies, Skidmore College.

This is Straightwide American Jesus hosted in partnership with the

Cap Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and I am here today with my

co-host. I'm Dan Miller, Associate Professor of, in the Department of Liberal Studies in Landmark College in Vermont.

It's the week before the election and Dan has forgot where he works apparently so

I've forgotten everything

you would you redo that I think maybe we should redo that that was That was rough. You left it on the field.

You gave a public lecture this week.

You left it all in the field, and now your brain is like,

I'm good for a good month now.

I'm out, right?

Anyway, Dan, can you believe it?

We are four days from election day. A lot of feelings. What's going through your mind and body?

It's the same concern probably lots of people have of like, you know, being glad to have this be done.

I've told people any other articles about this, right, of like the mental health of having to not follow the news sometimes.

And you and I have been, like, I feel like focused all the time

on things like Christian nationalism and the COVID crisis

and the election for like months and months.

And, you know, it's sort sort of exhausting she ready to be passed about

I think everybody's afraid everybody is the numbers all look good but everybody's

haunted by 2016 right and what that looked like and I know that's it's one of the first things we want to sort of talk about is you know

Can we trust those numbers can we move with those that's something that we'll be getting to

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