Girls State: Teens Enter the Halls of Power
Pantsuit Politics
Sarah & Beth
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We share our conversation with listener Kelsey Whitt about her participation in the Missouri Girls State Program and the documentary premiering this weekend on Apple TV.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silver's. You're listening to Pantsu Politics, where we take a different approach to the news. Hi it's Beth. Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:32.6 | Sarah is on spring break with her family, but fear not. |
| 0:36.4 | Her voice will be in this conversation. |
| 0:38.7 | She recently sat down with Kelsey Witt, |
| 0:40.9 | who appears in the upcoming Apple TV documentary Girls State. |
| 0:45.0 | Girls State programs introduce young women to the halls of power. |
| 0:49.0 | You can imagine that we are very much here for that. |
| 0:51.0 | We always end our show talking about what's on our minds outside of politics, |
| 0:55.3 | and today I'm going to review a product from a global juggernaut taking things in a new and |
| 1:00.1 | unexpected direction. |
| 1:02.4 | But first, if you've heard us talk about our book club and have been |
| 1:05.7 | uncertain about the details, I want to flush that out for you for a minute. The book club is one piece |
| 1:11.2 | of our paywalled membership community. |
| 1:13.8 | That community funds every podcast you listen to for free |
| 1:16.6 | here in the feed. |
| 1:17.7 | And the book club happens in addition to good morning |
| 1:20.6 | and more to say, and many other fun things that we try to do to say thank you to the people who support our work. |
| 1:27.0 | We have had a bunch of different iterations of the book club over the years. |
| 1:31.0 | It was started and originally headed by our |
| 1:34.0 | executive producer Megan Hart. These days we are curating themed pairings of books. |
| 1:40.0 | This winter our books focused on company towns. |
| 1:44.0 | Sarah chose the book Her Country by Marissa Moss |
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