0:05 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Weekly Show Podcast. My name is John Stewart. On this Wednesday morning, November 4th, you may hear in my voice a slight rasp, a slight hoarseness, but also an inflection of uh someone call it enthusiasm, uh excitement. Uh I don't know if you've been paying attention. There was an election uh last night, the midterm elections, and I'm left with a feeling uh as I watched the results up until I want to say 3:00 in the morning,
0:37 something along those lines. Uh but it fills me with It's a hard to describe feeling, one that it is a little bit alien to me within these times. I believe it's referred to as hope. Or that might be its its ancient name. You know, the Egyptians referred to it as hope. Uh what an exciting feeling of opportunity, what an exciting uh repudiation of cruelty and shittiness in our politics.
1:10 The Democrats ran actual good candidates who seem uh in it for virtuous and non-political salesman reasons. Uh it was it was an incredible night. It was I was watching it. The the I can only liken it. You know, you're seeing They haven't had a Democratic senator in 100 years. This was like the Knicks championship. This was Nixon five. This was watching result after result. Each result was like OG Anunoby
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