Facts, Not Fear (with Dr. Leah Boustan)
How To Not Lose Your Sh!t
Red Wine & Blue
4.7 • 892 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The numbers speak for themselves, and I am just continued to be absolutely elated, that people organized and fought back, and it worked, gosh darn it. |
| 0:18.0 | We got to address the suburban women problem because it's real. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from red, wine, and blue. |
| 0:33.3 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:34.3 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm Amanda Weinstein. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Jasmine Clark. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Rachel Vindman. |
| 0:45.2 | And this is a suburban women problem. It's been a week since the election and I'm still smiling about the results. |
| 0:51.8 | Yes, you can see my crows feet when I'm smiling. Still smiling. Republicans use scare tactics and misinformation about reproductive freedom. And today we're talking about |
| 0:54.8 | another issue that becomes more about fear than facts, immigration. We got a chance to talk with |
| 1:00.5 | Dr. Leah Bustan, a rock star economist who studies immigration, and she shared some real facts |
| 1:05.4 | and data with us. She recently published a book called Streets of Gold, America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success. |
| 1:12.6 | And I am so excited to share our interview with her. |
| 1:15.7 | But before we get to that, how are we all feeling one week after the election? |
| 1:20.5 | Still pretty darn good. |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah, I'm still feeling good about things, still smiling, still just like happy. But I will say that although I am |
| 1:30.5 | feeling good, I do also feel the weight of, I don't know how to call them. Because I know, |
| 1:36.9 | I understand what they're trying to do, but I keep feeling like there are people who just want |
| 1:42.3 | to yuck on our yum and just be like, no, don't be happy right now. |
| 1:46.8 | Like, and just find the negative in everything. |
| 1:50.0 | And so sometimes that kind of drives me insane because I'm just like, guys, can we just have a moment where we're just like, good things happened? |
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