NEW YORK, NY — A great moment in both television history and the advancement of women occurred today, as producers of ABC's long-tenured daytime talk show The View welcomed a sixth woman to the cast.

The show's host panel has consisted of five women for the duration of the program's existence but producers reportedly decided to shake things up by adding Minnesota governor and current Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz as the show's unprecedented sixth female host.

"We're excited to welcome him as the newest woman on our panel of hosts," said Executive Producer Brian Teta. "We've toyed with different changes we could make to the show to spice things up and make things fresh, and we ultimately settled on needing an even larger and more potent injection of estrogen to the host panel. That's where Tim Walz comes in."

The Minnesota governor was honored to be named the sixth woman on the show's cast. "I feel like I could just flail my arms for days," Walz said when the announcement was made official. "I often enjoy watching The View after a morning of loading my hunting gun in the countryside and shooting animals as men do. To have the opportunity to join other smart and sassy ladies like me on the panel is a dream come true. It's where I belong."

At publishing time, producers said the move would be permanent regardless of the outcome of the election. "Even if he and Kamala win, he'll still be here every day," Teta said. "I mean, he'd just be the Vice President. They don't really do anything anyway."

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