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Hey Jessica, welcome to the podcast. What's going on today?

You know, I'm not feeling as a positive about life as I normally am.

But you know, this stuff matters.

What's happening in the world matters,

and that's why we're gonna talk about it today with our listeners because we we think it needs to be talked about.

Yeah, we do. So guys, what Jessica is alluding to here is today as we speak right now as we're recording this granted this episode is

coming out three weeks in advance so probably maybe this will all be over by

that time but right now the hearings are going on with Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Kavanaugh, right?

So Jessica, what has happened?

Why are these two people in hearings and what is going on?

Give us a little bit of context to the story.

Yeah so just as like a wider context to start from guys the hashtag me to

movement has really allowed women to feel like they can step forward when they have

allegations and stories of sexual misconduct, right? There's a lot of politically correct terms to

describe what they're talking about, sexual harassment, but to a greater

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