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How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Fear, Lies, and Book Bans (with Tara McGowan and Jessica Berg)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

Health & Fitness, Politics, Parenting, Mental Health, News, Kids & Family

4.7892 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachel Vindman, Jasmine Clark, and Amanda Weinstein dig into misinformation. They’ve been enduring misinformation-driven attacks lately their own lives– over the weekend, extremist protestors showed up at Amanda's house and didn’t even really know why! And meanwhile, in Georgia, Jasmine’s been dealing with Republicans who say they support kids’ mental health but want to ban books that might help students understand themselves and their place in the world. They’re joined b...

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0:00.0

Rule number one to a protest, have an ask.

0:12.0

Right?

0:13.0

Who goes to a protest and what are you chanting?

0:16.0

We don't know why we're here.

0:18.0

We don't know where we're here.

0:19.0

Like what? We got to address the suburban women problem

0:23.9

because it's real. Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast for red, wine, and blue.

0:32.6

Hi, everyone. Thanks for listening. I'm Jasmine Clark. I'm Amanda Weinstein. I'm Rachel Vindman.

0:38.7

And you're listening to The Suburban Women Problem. Today, we'll be talking to Jessica Berg, an English teacher in Loudoun County, Virginia, which has been ground zero for book banning and all the outrage over critical race theory. And after that, we'll have my conversation with Tara McGowan about misinformation and all the

0:58.4

things that has to do with what we're dealing with and our present political climate and

1:03.7

just life in general.

1:05.3

We have legislation trying to ban books right here in Georgia. But just today, everyone got up and talked

1:12.5

about how they were so concerned about mental health and suicide prevention. And sometimes

1:18.3

just, you know, the hypocrisy is enough to make me want to vomit right there on the house floor.

1:24.0

Like, I just can't stand. Are you like, am I being punked? Right. Literally, that's how I feel. It's like, really? So you're going to stand here and do

1:32.0

this now when you're literally just wrote a bill that would take away a tool that someone might

1:39.2

use and someone might need that might prevent something really tragic or horrible from happening.

1:44.4

But they don't see the connection because they can't see as far as whatever boogeyman

1:50.6

they've created for the day or the week or the year.

1:54.1

So I want to actually drill down on some of this.

1:57.7

I know that both of you have really been dealing with us the results of misinformation

2:02.9

and where it takes us just this weekend. So Amanda, let's start with you. Can you tell us

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