Lemonada.

This is Sarah Stewart-Holland.

This is Beth Silvers.

You're listening to Pantsu Politics,

where we take a different approach to the news.

Thank you so much for joining us today.

Since we spoke on Friday about how much has changed in the Middle East, there's been another major shift there.

So we're going to talk today about the overthrow of the Assad regime, along with other good news around the world.

For over a month, we've been planning to talk about overconsumption.

Feels natural to start with media. So today we're going to talk about the TikTok ban and influencer shakeups and cable news and how we're feeling about kids and media

and social media and policy and being ready to just really shake things up even more than

they're already being shaken up. And outside of politics, we're going to talk about

the words of the year and how many of them there are and how that's really just a continuation

of the discussion that we started on overconsumption. Before we get into that, we did want to say

that on our substack feed, we're having a great time. And guys, let us just tell you one of the

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