Lemonada.

This is Sarah Stewart-Holland.

This is Beth Silvers.

You're listening to Flashback 2019, a very special episode of Pantsuit Politics.

We are revisiting the 10 years that we have been making Pantsuit Politics.

Next up, 2019, the last year of the before time, as I think about it, Beth.

Feels like it should have been a simpler, easier time, but spoiler alert, it was not.

So that's what we're going to talk about today.

They're never simple. Every year of the last 10, you're like, maybe, nope, nope, nope. Maybe it's coming for us. That year is coming. Well, we want to tell you that we are not only celebrating here on the show, but we will be celebrating in person in Cincinnati on July 19th. Now, the in person tickets are sold out for that show, but we will be celebrating in-person in Cincinnati on July 19th.

Now the in-person tickets are sold out for that show, but we really want everyone to be there.

And thanks to our sponsor, Substack, you can get virtual tickets to join us.

The link is in the show notes.

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We hope that's our intention. So grab those

tickets and be with us on July 19th for our 10th birthday party. Next up, 2019. Beth I like to give every year a little label.

I call it 2019 the year of, ugh.

Okay.

I mean, really, see, I'm even making the sound right now. You look back in there, like,

there's some things that I think we were making harder than we needed to. We should, we should

have taken our minute to rest when we had it. We didn't know we needed it so badly at the moment.

And then there are things that I'm like, we weren't paying close enough attention to that.

That's what we really should have been upset about and, and dialed into. But let's get into all that. Let's talk about 2019. The government shut down. It was the longest government shutdown at the beginning of the year. 35 days from December 22nd to January 25th, it was all about the border wall.

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