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Midterms · Rich Spinster

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SPEAKER_00: It's just all about love and life and living and freedom.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what that's what it's all about for me now.
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Rich Spenster Podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: It is the day after the 2026 midterm elections, and you all, I am too relieved to even be happy.
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SPEAKER_00: Right now, what I am experiencing are full breaths from the belly right now.
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SPEAKER_00: And I realized last night as I was watching the returns come in, how I have been not breathing properly.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, I think I've been holding my breath since this motherfucker got in office again.
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SPEAKER_00: I felt patriotic as fuck last night.
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SPEAKER_00: I was singing America to Beautiful, the Ray Charles version, which is the only version that should ever be sung.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, there should be a bill introduced or something where that becomes our national anthem.
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SPEAKER_00: But I digress.
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SPEAKER_00: I felt so patriotic last night.
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SPEAKER_00: Finally, finally, we have elected people who will hold this administration accountable and not work for just themselves and other billionaires, most of all, who care about democracy.
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SPEAKER_00: People showed up and they showed the fuck out.
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SPEAKER_00: They showed up and showed the fuck out from South Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi is currently still at play.
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SPEAKER_00: We I mean fucking Susan Collins is out of Maine finally.
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SPEAKER_00: This was a historic night.
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SPEAKER_00: It was a complete red massacre, and I'm here for that.
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SPEAKER_00: Georgia did the damn thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Stacy Abrams.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me tell y'all something about last night.
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SPEAKER_00: But as they were coming in, and as I was watching the numbers, I was just in shock.
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SPEAKER_00: And that feels amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: It feels amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: But it also feels like you are starting to walk for the first time.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I haven't personally adjusted emotionally to what happened last night.
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SPEAKER_00: It feels so unreal.
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SPEAKER_00: But it feels so fucking good.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk to me about Texas and to the people of Michigan who didn't let Islamophobia win.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, there was a response to that last night, and the response was overwhelming.
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SPEAKER_00: Everybody understood the assignment, but Florida.
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SPEAKER_00: He took the wheel and he flipped that motherfucker.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what happened last night.
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SPEAKER_00: So I could not wait to jump on this mic to celebrate what happened last night.
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SPEAKER_00: Because we're not done with this motherfucker.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, we still we still have this sundowning president for another two years.
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SPEAKER_00: But at least now the inmates are no longer running the asylum.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm able to breathe in a way that I have not been able to in a while.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think it's because I kept thinking, what next?
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SPEAKER_00: What is he going to do next?
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SPEAKER_00: There is so much capitulation.
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SPEAKER_00: No one is stopping him.
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SPEAKER_00: What is going to happen with this fool up there at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that is sundowning on live TV before our eyes every single day?
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SPEAKER_00: And the media acts like they don't see it.
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SPEAKER_00: Acts like it's normal.
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SPEAKER_00: Acts like it's this fool did a whole press conference on election day about the motherfucking reflecting pool.
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SPEAKER_00: The reflecting pool has piss in it at this point.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's all I wanted to say.
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SPEAKER_00: I am taking a hiatus from the podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll be back in January.
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SPEAKER_00: Until then, thank you for listening to the Rich Spencer Podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: You can listen to the podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts.
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SPEAKER_00: And again, follow me at Rich Spenster on Instagram.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll see you all in January.