We are heartbroken over the news coming out of Las Vegas.

We share our initial thoughts as well as continue our conversation about consumerism and politics

with author Joshua Davis. This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics. No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

Welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics. We are going to start our first segment discussing

the tragic events that happened in Las Vegas Sunday night. And then we are going to share an

interview I did with Joshua Davis. He's a professor of history and has written a book called

From Headshops to Whole Foods, The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs.

And I think it's a really interesting continuation of the conversation we had last week about

consumerism and how we think about consumerism and politics. Also, there's this really fascinating

story about co-ops in the 70s and how they like had violent takeover of each other. It's pretty

crazy. So you want to stay tuned for that after our first segment. Before we start talking about the

news, we have a couple of housekeeping things to share, which it feels awkward to do anything else

when something horrible is happening. But we will try to kind of keep some sort of normalcy

happening here on the show. So we first want to say a huge thank you to our listener Katie,

to Lacey and to everyone at the YWCA Bristol for inviting us to speak at their emerge event

in Tennessee last week. It was so much fun to be together in person, which is always a treat

for the two of us and to meet so many wonderful people and to be part of a great event. You know,

the mission of the YWCA is one that's really close to our hearts. And so it was just fantastic to

be there. Thank you so much. We are going to be doing another private event on October 27th in

Cincinnati. And it's killing us to not share more details about it because it's super exciting.

And we will closer to time. But right now, if you are in the Cincinnati area and would like an

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