It's the whole show in one go! Today The Country is brought to you by the letters U, S and A and music including American Pie, American Idiot and Jimi's Star Spangled Banner. Can you see where we're going with this?
On with the show: We kick off our American election special with our political correspondent Barry Soper live on the ground in the Big Apple.
ANZ's chief economist Cameron Bagrie updates the money market's reaction to the American election and he previews tomorrow's OCR review from the Reserve Bank.
Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy talks beer, politics, precision agriculture and whether we should be rolling out high-speed broadband fibre on power poles.
Then, on a day dominated by America and beer we yarn to NIWA weather forecaster and native New Yorker Chris Brandolino who likes Canadian beer. Go figure?