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How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Let’s Be The Vocal Majority (with Senator Amanda Cappelletti)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

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

4.7892 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that just eleven people are responsible for 60% of book bans in this country? This week is National Banned Books Week, and we talk about how a vocal minority is responsible for everything from book bans to gerrymandered maps. And the media is so obsessed with extremists like Donald Trump that a lot of Americans aren’t even aware of the good work being done across the country and in the White House. After their news catch-up, Jasmine and Amanda sit down with State Senator Amanda ...

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0:00.0

All I'm asking is for us to trust the experts, the librarians and the teachers.

0:12.0

I don't know if you guys know this.

0:14.0

They don't make millions of dollars.

0:16.0

Exactly.

0:17.0

No, they do not.

0:18.0

And verify.

0:20.0

We got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.

0:26.2

Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from red, wine, and blue.

0:33.9

Hi, everyone.

0:34.9

Thanks for joining us.

0:35.8

I'm Amanda Weinstein.

0:37.1

I'm Jasmine Clark. I'm Rachel Vindman.

0:39.9

And this is a suburban women problem. This week is National Band Books Week. And unfortunately,

0:46.0

book bands have not slowed down in the past two years that we've been talking about them.

0:49.9

We often talk about the vocal minority when it comes to parents' rights, and the Washington Post recently found that just 11 people were responsible for 60% of all book bands in America last year.

1:03.7

11 people. It's not a large number. So today, Jasmine and I will get to share our interview with Pennsylvania State Senator Amanda Capoletti.

1:12.2

She's recently proposed legislation in her state to prevent book bans.

1:16.5

And she's also the first senator in her state to give birth while in office.

1:20.7

So we had a lot to talk about.

1:22.9

But before we get to that, how are y'all doing?

1:25.8

What have we been seeing in the news?

1:28.2

It's a lot going on. I feel like a lot happened in the last week and a lot of it had to do with

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