That's the best part about all this, getting to meet so many great people who managed to work this stuff in to their life, their civics lifestyle.

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

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

Hi, everyone, and thanks for listening to the suburban women problem.

I'm Rachel Vindman, and this

holiday season, we're doing the podcast a little differently. For the rest of the year, my co-host and I

will be taking turns going deep on what we learned from the midterms, talking with experts and

people who worked hard in their own communities. There are so many victories to celebrate and so many lessons to learn.

Today, I am joined by my good friend Victor Shee to talk about the youth vote.

Victor is a writer, speaker, organizer, podcast host, and a student at UCLA.

And sometimes I do ask him, how are you doing in your classes?

How are you getting everything done? Because I cannot turn off the mom switch. Victor, I am so

glad you could join me on the suburban women problem. Anything for you, Rachel. Thanks so much for having

me. First, I just want to say,

before we get into it, I want you to tell the story of in August when Alex and I had dinner with

you and what happened, because it's still one of my favorite things. It was amazing. So we were all

at a great restaurant in D.C. called Founding Farmers. If you ever been in D.C.

It's like D.C. classic. We were eating great food. And that was the day I remember Alex just came out with a piece about Russia. And it was a great long piece. And then we were just sitting there. I think we were wrapping up. And then we found out that the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago. And we were all like, oh, my goodness. I know.

As we all know, I mean, that's become the biggest, one of the biggest stories leading politics

and the news. And so, I mean, we just saw what are like, what is going on? And so we took a photo

and we were like, this is what happens when democracy works. I know. It was so incredible. I just love it. Everyone in the restaurant was

kind of licking at their phones and I'm like, what's going on? And then we noticed it's really

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