4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Pantsuit Politics is celebrating ten years of podcasting this year!
A lot has happened politically, culturally, and personally in the last ten years. This summer, we’re revisiting each of the years we’ve been podcasting with a special flashback episode. Today, we are looking at the big moments and lessons learned from the rich text that is 2020.
Topics Discussed
Covid-19
Outside of Politics: Tiger King and TikTok
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
0:02.7 | This is Sarah Stewart Holland. |
0:15.3 | This is Beth Silvers. |
0:16.9 | You're listening to Flashback 2020, a special episode of Pantsuit Politics. |
0:24.0 | Today's flashback episode, Sarah, stands out to me in part because we've already looked back at 2020 in a lot of different ways. |
0:32.0 | If you are a brand new listener, welcome. We're so glad you're here. We will link two episodes for you that I still |
0:37.7 | think about all the time. One of them is called Lessons from the COVID War, an interview with |
0:42.2 | Dr. Charity Dean about public health professionals after action review of the pandemic. And another |
0:47.1 | we recorded in August 2023 called What We Got Wrong About COVID. So I guess this all goes to show that |
0:53.5 | 2020 is a rich text, and at least for people our age, |
0:56.9 | a seminal year in our lives. And I think today it's important to just continue to discuss |
1:01.1 | what we see with the benefit of hindsight. |
1:04.3 | Before we do that, we just want to remind you that virtual tickets for our live show in |
1:07.9 | Cincinnati are on sale. You can watch the live show in real |
1:10.8 | time from the comfort of your home, or you can watch it when it's convenient for you. Either |
1:14.6 | way, we'd love for you to join us and our families for a night that promises to be filled |
1:18.3 | with laughter and probably a few of the best kind of tears. Tears through laughter. |
1:23.2 | You can find a link for those tickets in the show notes. |
1:27.2 | And now let's revisit 2020 with a little more distance and perspective. |
1:33.3 | I don't want to. |
1:34.6 | No one wants to. |
1:49.6 | No one wants to. Should we just start there? |
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