From Gimmel, this is Reply All.
I'm Emmanuel Jochi.
So, like a lot of people living in Brooklyn, New York, this past Saturday,
I heard that Joe Biden was going to be the next peasant of the United States.
Mostly because of a large amount of honking on my street and much to the annoyance of pretty much everybody who loves me.
My first instinct in this moment was to grab a microphone and head outside here at Bedford and Cow.
I got onto my street just in time to see my local serious biker dude who bikes around every morning in his serious biker outfit,
actually stop his serious biking to yell out what everybody was thinking.
It's fucking over.
It's over.
And then I watched as my neighborhood, or what felt like all of New York City,
turned into just this giant party that raged into the small hours of the morning.
Wild.
Absolutely wild.
After months of misery and lockdown, the city felt alive.
Alive in a way that I'd never seen before.
But if I'm being honest about it,
the moment I haven't been able to stop thinking about this week happened hours after Joe Biden won the presidency.
It happened later on that night,
and it is now as millions of people around the country tuned in to hear him and Kamala Harris declare victory.