Hi, it's Amy Nicholson, film critic and co-host of this podcast alongside the fabulous human being, Paul Scheer.

I am recording this message a couple days before the election, and I have no idea what the mood is going to be when you're listening to my voice on November 7th or after that.

Future, Amy, I hope you're in a good mood.

But I have to say now, the small gap of days that we've got between me at this moment, hello, and me at the moment that you're listening to in the future, this time became incredibly busy for both Paul and myself because we're using these precious hours to get out the vote. For myself, I'm really into ballot curing. That's where

you call voters who have already voted, but their ballots got rejected because of their signature

or lack of a signature or because they just recently moved and there's an address mismatch with the

government. Those are things you could fix in time. So this election, I've been calling voters in

Michigan where so much of my family still lives, hi guys, and where people in Michigan have until 5 p.m. on November 8th to make sure that the vote

that they did send in that didn't get counted can be fixed and will count. And hey,

maybe that's still relevant information right now when you are listening and volunteer groups

could use more help making calls, but I'm really, really hoping that everything is calm and happy and settled. But so, whether the

people of November 7th and beyond are needing a laugh or a cry, today's episode is a chance to catch

up with one that we recorded last November, Alexander Payne's election. This podcast is actually

one of my personal favorite conversations that Paul and I have ever had about a movie. There is

so, so, so much to talk about in this super dark, super funny comedy. It was released in 1999.

Somehow, magically, perhaps sinister black magically, election becomes deeper every year.

To be honest, last year when we recorded this, I thought election had probably hit peak relevance, L.O.L.

Future aiming of the year, 2008. I hope that this year that I'm saying this, 2024, is peak relevance and everything

in the future, future, future is so much better. But without further ado, take it away

Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, and let's talk about this fictional and yet so true

election. The year is 1999, and some people think that this podcast is an overachiever, but I think they're just jealous.

The movie, election. Hello, everyone and welcome to...

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