Welcome to Inside the Hive. This is Emily Jane Fox. I'm here with my trusted co-host Joe

Hagen. Hi Joe. Hi Joe. Hi I am here. We're here together. You know where we are? We're in one of those like a log flume

rides at the at the park or at the top. You're about to go down. it's October 1st as we record this we are at the very top of the

flume ride about to go down the steepest part of it down to whatever our destiny may be.

And a blue wave possible or some kind of other horror show

alternative, but it does feel like we're at the top of a roller coaster

and about to go down the biggest part of it even though I would say this week we

went down one of the roller coaster ride.

We went through one loop, right?

We went through one loop.

What a loop it was.

We made it through our first presidential debate.

I would say I feel I still feel physically

ill from watching it it made me feel it really was it was the worst kind of

debate that I've ever seen that I could have ever imagined.

I think that we all went into it feeling like this is going to be ugly, maybe Trump will

be a crazy bully though.

He's a sneaky good debater, or he had been

a sneaky good debater in debates past.

Was Biden going to seem older than he is or be the oldest version of himself.

There were a lot of possibilities that we thought could be a little bit disastrous,

but this was full-fledged disaster zone.

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