Hello and welcome to The Americano Show.

I'm Kate Andrews and I'm guest hosting for Freddie Gray while he's over in the States.

We'll be getting reports from him this week on the U.S. election and be speaking to many

other guests.

Now on with the show.

I'm joined today by Nick Gillespie, editor at large for reason, and host of the reason

interview podcast.

I'm also joined by the host of this podcast, Freddie Gray, our deputy editor here at The Spectator.

Freddie, welcome back.

It's good to be, you've, you've usurped me as the host of Americano.

You asked me to guest host this for you while you were away, but that's one way to put it.

You've done an annoyingly great job and now I think I've been replaced.

I'll be a lot worse next time, I promise.

Okay, good.

It's great to see you in person.

You made it back in one piece from Palm Beach, where you witnessed history in the making. Can you tell us about that experience?

Yeah. Well, I keep telling people that the moment when Pennsylvania came in at the election watch party was one of the most extraordinary experiences I've ever been part of.

The room went completely bananas and people were

just sobbing and it was like a sort of religious moment of elation. I know this. I loved it.

There was this great woman standing next to me from Oklahoma who wanted to talk about the crown

because she realized I was British. So I was chatting to her a bit.

And then when, after Pennsylvania, she came up and found me and she looked me and she said,

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