Coming to you from the Great American West, smack dab in the middle of the Centennial State, it's the political orphanage, a program for folks who didn't sign up for the eternal battle between Red Team and Blue Team and

don't particularly want to be on either anyway.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton and it turns out I broke my foot.

So if you thought we were going to go dancing tonight well we might still but you'll be the

one twirling not me all I can do is pivot on today's show we're going to

talk about women's soccer and the wage gap, or as they call it in Britain, women's

cricket and the pace-gism, which I discuss with the very insightful and funny Andrea Jones Roy and Turner Sparks, both friends of mine from the New York comedy scene.

Now if you're not super into soccer like me, don't worry. I picked this very sporty topic

specifically because I wanted to talk about the wage gap at large. So we discuss women's soccer, we discuss sports, then the wage gap, which is, if you're unfamiliar with the term, you've heard the phrase that women make 80% or 80 cents on the dollar, that's the wage gap. We talk about that and then after that we do my favorite part, which I am unapologetic about, I like problem solving, we talk about policy prescriptions. What would work well?

What would have unintended consequences?

There's something for everyone.

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