This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silver's. You're listening to Pantsu Politics, where we take a different return to the two major ongoing wars.

Thank you for joining us.

Today we are going to return to the two major ongoing wars in the

world in Gaza and in Ukraine. We're also going to wrap that very difficult

conversation and two sources of happiness and joy in our lives,

E. Jean Carroll and Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, so we hope that you will stay for outside of politics

as well.

Also, we did want to say to our eagle-eared, is that a thing?

I know we can be eagle-eyed, but I'm making eagle-eared to our eagle-eared listeners

who did notice that yes, we have turned up the tempo just a bit

we didn't think y'all notice we just wanted to get a little faster over time but y'all

picked up on it immediately we just wanted to pick it up a little bit, make it a little more high energy. We're very

happy with it. We're not going to continue to slowly gas like you guys. So don't worry, it's not going to continue to get

faster. but if you

noticed good work we did in fact turn up the tempo of the theme song.

Some of you also caught a very brief mention that Sarah made to us reading Democracy in America by

Alexis to Tocqueville and a few of you went out and purchased that book and then

realized oh that's a big book it is it is. It is. So we will have a schedule for you scene, but what we really want you to know today is that this is going to be a slow book club.

Slow launch too. It's a slow launch too. Is the slow launch?

Maybe got out a little over our skis on launching it without meaning to launch it.

The point is, we are returning ourselves to some big text about what are we all doing here.

It's a presidential year. We want to take a different approach to the news.

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