The Soy Pill takes election night to Ryan Geddie's dad's house
JJ McCullough brings state graphics, early Guam results and an exercise-ball running joke to Lib & Learn.
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MIDTERM-A-PALOOZA!! | LIB & LEARN
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- 1:03McCullough's state graphics help the panel work through the order of poll closures.
- 7:25The tentative schedule includes Jeopardy, quizzes and a planned Ken Martin call-in.
- 12:12Unofficial Guam returns provide early vote shares for the governor and congressional delegate contests.
- 17:09The panelists take turns impersonating McCullough's channel greeting.
- 19:41A New York Times chart sets out when results are expected from different states.
Election coverage got a houseguest format. The Soy Pill's "MIDTERM-A-PALOOZA!! | LIB & LEARN" gathered four commentators at Ryan Geddie's dad's house, with poll-closing times to untangle and games penciled into the evening's schedule.
JJ McCullough, the Canadian political and social commentary creator, supplied the state graphics. Before the mainland results could settle much, the panel opened a PDF of unofficial returns from Guam and started picking through vote shares. The tentative program also promised Jeopardy, quizzes and a Ken Martin call-in, giving the broadcast something of a political variety-night structure.
Then came the impressions. Each panelist tried McCullough's familiar channel greeting, and Geddie's father supplied an exercise ball for McCullough to sit on, extending the joke about his on-camera bouncing. Election-night logistics had acquired a prop department.
The stream was the most watched of three new uploads, reaching roughly 35,000 views. "Last Minute Republican Hate" and "The Most Depressing Movement" completed the week's releases. The latter is attracting more daily views now than either of its release-day companions, though the older RFK commentary remains the channel's busiest upload.
The Soy Pill added about 1,000 subscribers over the week, while daily viewing is running below its usual level. Nearby political channels had larger weekly view gains, including The Dangerous Ones and Large Man Abroad. For The Soy Pill, the week's distinctive addition was the in-person Lib & Learn gathering, right down to the borrowed seating.
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Who created the state graphics used during the Lib & Learn election stream?
The panel introduces the key-state graphics as McCullough's work.





