This is Sarah Stewart-Holland.

This is Beth Silvers.

You're listening to Pansu Politics.

We are taking in the news.

The news from Iran.

The news from airports.

The corruption.

The measles.

There is so much and it feels so big that it's really tempting to check out.

And we're battling that in ourselves, this sense that like maybe I just can't do anything about any of this and I just maybe should hang out until the next election and hope for the best.

Today we're going to work through that feeling. We're also going to talk about places where political power is shifting.

Public pressure is finding real outlets where people are figuring things out when old systems aren't working.

And then we're going to take a big exhale and send you into the weekend thinking about what's being called the Smut Renaissance.

Yeah, because I think we're going to take an exhale,

and then we're going to be, then we're taking like a gas. You know what I mean? Because it's a smut renaissance. So you've got to do a little, ooh! Like, you've got to do a little bit of that, too. Just saying, I was so glad. There's going to be a lot of breathing involves. One way or another. I mean, okay. If thinking about the state of the

world makes you really want to be in a room full of people who care as much as you do, then please

join us in Minneapolis for our one and only live show this year, Saturday, August 29th. Even better.

You can spend that weekend with us at the Spice Conference.

Sarah, this week, I had Zoom calls with three different people who were telling me how nervous they were to come to our live show in Cincinnati by themselves.

And then they had the best time and they met people who they're still friends with

and they can't wait to see at other events that we're having. So I just want to reassure you.

Some of them are coming with the friends they met to Minneapolis. It's so exciting. It is a

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