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 hope.

I am your only co-host.

Kara is still on maternity leave.

We miss her desperately and can't wait for her to come back because her British accent

makes us sound smarter and it doesn't sound smart without her. But I've brought in a guest

who will bring the intelligence quotient up a great deal. I am joined this week by Christina Smith.

She is the Consumer Center Director for the Taxpayer Protection Alliance and the mom of 1.75.

That's right.

Thank you for having me.

My pleasure.

So when we had our last podcast with Kara, we didn't know it was our last podcast because

her baby came early.

That does tend to happen. And we're not trying to have that happen during this podcast.

No, certainly not.

Not allowed.

Although we are recording this on video, and Subsack subscribers can watch this instead of just

listen to it, the momwors.substack.com.

So if you do go into labor, maybe that will increase my subscriptions.

That probably would be, that'd be very interesting podcast.

Yeah, it would. So we were set up by a mutual friend because we have some of the same

wonky mom slash Washington slash policy interests in really dorky do we be things that I think are really

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