Welcome to Amped Up. This is your host Ryan Knight and our guest today. We've got two guests are the

authors of the Yes Queen Chronicles. Please welcome Joy Marie Mann and Patrick Cody.

Joy is also, she's an activist

and the host of the unruly hour

with Savage Joy on uphill media,

and Pat is an activist and a journalist.

Joy and Pat, welcome to Amped Up.

Thank you so much, Ryan.

I loved having you on my show a few times and glad to now be on yours. And I don't have a show but it's great to be here and it's

been great fighting the neoliberal is online with you.

Absolutely. Look I can't wait to talk about the book in the second half of the podcast because it is

fucking hilarious and very timely.

Very timely subject matter, this book. But first you know we have to kind of talk about the matter at hand.

You know after four days of counting votes that seemed to be more like 45 days, but after four days of counting, it looks like Joe Biden is going to be the next president of the United States.

He's taken the lead in Pennsylvania and Georgia, but this was not the blue wave that it should have been, right?

Democrats lost seats in the House. Democrats didn't flip the Senate even though

the map favored them. And Trump, here's a stat that I think is so startling.

Trump won the highest share of non-white voters of any Republican in 60 years.

You know, this election should have been a landslide and I think it would have been a landslide had

Democrats actually offered the American people something besides Trump bad and everyone who

doesn't agree with me is a Russian bot or a racist.

What is your reaction to Democrats underperforming and down ballot races,

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