Pantsuit Politics Flashback: 2021

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 56 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 look back at 2021 and present our theory that it - not 2020 - is the year that actually broke us. Topics Discussed January 6th What We Got Wrong in 2021 Outside of Politics: Nostalgia in a Disrupted Time Visit our website for complete show notes, premium shows, show merchandise, and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.7	This is Sarah Stewart-Holland.
0:15.5	This is Beth Silvers.
0:17.3	You're listening to a very special episode of Pantsuit Politics.
0:21.0	We are continuing our summer series and flashing back to 2021, which I believe to be the year we're actually mad at.
0:34.3	I think this is this is where we all jump the shark.
0:37.6	We think it's 2020.
0:39.7	But as we talked about in 2020, it's not 2020.
0:42.6	It's 2021.
0:43.6	So we're going to get into that today.
0:45.6	2020 laid the poison seeds.
0:49.1	Yeah.
0:49.5	That bloomed in 2021.
0:50.9	Yeah, yeah.
0:51.2	That's it.
0:51.5	That's it.
0:51.9	That's what happened.
0:53.6	Well, before we have this delightful journey back in time. You know what I told so? I said on Substack, I said, I don't know how to explain it to you that this is both painful and fun. That's our whole business, Sarah. That's what Pansy Politics is. I don't know how to say. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know how to explain to you that this flashback series is both painful and fun.
1:18.6	Well, isn't maturity about being able to handle all the things together at one time?
1:25.2	I, sure. If maturity means laughing and cussing more in the face of all this.
1:31.6	You use the tools available to you.
1:33.5	I am getting very mature.
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