The reason we wanted to do this show is because you hear a lot of people talking about it,

or like there's a podcast right, they'll do a show like once about the opioid crisis.

And like we say, it's sort of like a drive-by, but we like are doing a 26-episode deep dive on this.

You know, there's so many aspects to it that need to be explored.

This is Sarah. This is Beth. You are listening to Pantzoo politics.

The home of graceful political conversations.

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us this Friday. We are going to talk about the news of the week,

including what's going on in Syria, what's happening with impeachment and by listener request.

We're going to just dip our toes into the controversy around Ellen and George W. Bush,

and this whole kerfuffle about Elizabeth Warren's story that she was fired for being pregnant.

Here are the hesitation and best voice.

Yes, these are not my favorite kinds of stories, but I love you all and we will do it for you.

Before we jump into that and then share with you an interview with Stephanie Whittles-Wax

about her new podcast last day that takes a very hard and personal look at the opioid epidemic,

we want to let you know that if you've not been able to find us in person, you can find us online,

next week we are doing an event with the Center for the Study of Liberty in a webinar where we'll be

talking about our book. I think you're wrong, but I'm listening a guy-degrace-filled political

conversation. The link to register for that event will be in the show notes, and of course we would

love to see you in Dallas or Washington, D.C. on our nuanced nation tour. You can find that

information in the show notes as well. So it has been a hard news week this week.

We have thousands of people including us, sure many of our listeners without power and having to

evacuate in California. We have a shooting in Germany outside of Senegal on Yom Kupur,

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