Hello and welcome to the Betches-Up Podcast I'm Elise for Alice I'm Brian Russell Smith and for those of you who are just tuning in the Betches-Up podcast is your

weekly rundown of all the crazy shit that's happened in the news explained by

your two funniest friends which is us

yay we read the news so you don't have to

yeah we included that one I know sometimes we don't I know sometimes we do

something it's like I feel like we feel it in the moment like will we say

the second tagline or will we not it kind of but it felt natural in that moment and

there was yeah yeah either in an appropriate I feel like there's a lot of news reading

happening today yes and a lot of news reading happening today. Yes, and a lot of like complicated things to work through.

But first, let's do a little housekeeping.

We have a bonus episode that is going to come out in yeah in like two days over the weekend

It's with Flannery Winchester. She's the communications coordinator at Citizens Climate Lobby.

And if the climate report that we talked about

in the last episode and that's been in the news

or just climate change in general

makes you feel completely helpless and insane, this episode is going to make you feel so much better.

Yeah, I rarely have a conversation about climate change and leave it feeling better.

I left that feeling better. She talks about a lot of concrete things that you can do and

actually some concrete legislation bipartisan if you can believe it. Can you believe

you believe legislation that citizens climate lobby is working on right now

so that's some stuff that you can support and it's just really it made me

feel better because I know sometimes people are like even and we talk about the little

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