Rachel Held Evans, Middle Eastern Conflict, Bill Barr, and a Big Idea Catch-up

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In our first segment, we share our grief over the death of Rachel Held Evans. We also talk about conflict in the Middle East (in both Gaza and Iran) and the continuing drama between Attorney General Bill Barr and Congress. In the main segment, we have a conversation about some big ideas that have been floating around the internet lately including the Bring Down the House documentary on Netflix, women working long hours and experiencing burnout in the workplace, tragedy, and empathy. We want to hear your opinions! Please take a couple minutes and fill out our 2019 listener survey. We are thinking big about the future of the podcast and and we can't possibly continue down that road without your guidance. We are so thankful to our wonderful patrons who support the show. If you'd like to join the ranks of our faithful supports and get access to bonus content, visit our Patreon page. Thanks to our sponsors: theSkimm, ThirdLove, and Hello Fresh. Our book, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening), is available! You can purchase it now - for yourself, for friends, for your representative, for your senator, for everyone! We appreciate all of you who are spreading the word about the book to your local bookstores, libraries, and social circles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And if you are touting that, as see, I'm not really racist, sexist, misogynist, anti-LGBTQ,
0:08.6	whatever, because look at this number I was able to find, you are part of the problem.
0:15.1	Please stop.
0:17.7	Please think through this.
0:19.6	I would like to subtitle your point, meritocracy is a lie.
0:22.9	I think that's right.
0:24.4	I mean, look, our workplaces have so deprived themselves of good talent by believing that we
0:32.6	can measure good talent.
0:37.1	This is Sarah from the Left and Beth from the Right.
0:39.8	You're listening to Pants and Polities, they're shouting no insults, plenty of nuance.
0:55.4	On today's episode, we will be talking about several news items, including the loss of our
1:02.9	beloved Rachel Held Evans.
1:04.8	In our main segment, we're going to be catching up on several big ideas out there in podcasts
1:09.6	and articles that we wanted to talk about.
1:12.3	And then to close out the show, we'll be sharing what's on our mind outside of politics.
1:16.0	Before we get started, y'all are doing so good.
1:19.6	Following us on Instagram, we are so close to 9,000, which means we're only 1,000 away.
1:24.3	We're only 1,000, which means I can have this wipe up, which is all I want in life.
1:28.1	So hop on over to Instagram and follow Pants and Polities if you don't mind.
1:32.6	I really want this for you, Sarah.
1:34.5	You're so close.
1:35.5	Yeah, so close.
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