From the front lines of the mom wars, here's Bethany Mandel and Kara Kennedy.

Hello and welcome to another episode of your favorite podcast. I am the American host. My name is Bethany Mandel.

I'm a mom of six and a frequent writer for the New York Post and the Washington Examiner, among other places.

And I homeschool my children.

And that's all I have for tonight.

And I am joined by my beautiful Spice Girl co-host.

If you watch this podcast on our substack,

instead of just listening to it,

you will see The Spice Girl from my beautiful co-host.

Hi, Kennedy.

I'm also only one email behind being caught up, which I feel like is, I know, I know.

So tell everyone, I feel like we're ships passing in the night and we sound way fancier than we usually are because you just got home i just got home from belgium and then we just decided that nick is going to fly to anchorage alaska at 9 a.m tomorrow why he's writing a piece about a tv show it this is like the most insane reason for somebody to go to Alaska.

It's, it's us being manic. And so he's writing a piece about a TV show that is based in Alaska and he is interviewing somebody.

And the guy that he's interviewing was like,

oh, I'm in Alaska for a week.

Let's do it on Zoom.

And Nick was like, hmm, maybe I could come.

And it's one of the very few states that he's never been to.

So I was like, you should just do it.

That's great.

I love it. Yeah. I love you supporting his spontaneity. Yeah. And then I kind of started to regret it because I was like, oh, I actually have a lot to do this week. But by now, we were, it was booked. We were done. Right. So it's too late. Exactly. I'm glad. I'm happy for him. I think it's going to be fun. And you are going on the trip for lifetime. Yes. So I'm leaving tomorrow evening. I will be taking off this time tomorrow. So I am going to Greece for a week with my husband and six children. And then after Greece, we're going to

Israel for like five weeks. So fun. Tell me about the packing situation because I've seen you very

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