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Pantsuit Politics

Spicy Bonus: The Good News Edition

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Note: This week, we’re sharing the spicy bonus episode with all our subscribers - free and paid. If you’re a free subscriber, we hope you enjoy this preview. These are the types of robust, free-flowing conversations we’re sharing every Thursday for paid subscribers. We hope you’ll consider joining us as a paid subscriber so you can enjoy all our premium content, access the comments and community, and support our small business. On this week’s spicy bonus episode, Sarah and Beth discuss the encouraging election results from around the country. They discuss Nancy Pelosi’s announced retirement and how this administration is leaving so many missed opportunities on the table. This could have been a time of real change, but, instead, they are just breaking things. Speaking of breaking things, the political right is facing a real breakdown within its ranks. There’s a real divide happening. All this, plus the desire to do real work and be connected with each other, and the difference between virtue and moralizing. It’s all here in one of our characteristically wide-ranging episodes. *This episode is explicit. Ready to go deeper? Visit our website for complete show notes, exclusive premium content, chats and more. If you're not already subscribed, you can use this link to ensure you're getting our show notes, weekly newsletter, 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.

0:05.8

Hey, it's Beth. Every November, we try to talk on the podcast about how important our conversations

0:11.8

behind the paywall are to informing everything else that we're doing in front of the

0:16.1

paywall. And we decided today, instead of telling you about that, to just show you. So we are sharing with

0:22.2

everyone the spicy bonus episode for this week, where we took the recent elections as a prompt

0:28.9

to think about what's going on with both parties. It is an hour and 20 minutes. So you can see,

0:33.7

it is a true bonus episode. We do not throw things away behind the paywall.

0:37.8

In some ways, I think it's where our most important work happens. So we're sharing this with

0:41.6

you today. If you would like to learn more about becoming a member of the Spice Cabinet, as we

0:46.1

call it, our paywalled community, we would love for you to do that. You can check out the show

0:50.3

notes. Thank you for listening. Hi, I'm Jenny Francis and I became an executive

0:56.0

producer in the spring of 2024. And part of the reason I decided to become an executive

1:02.1

producer was because I wanted to be able to connect with other people who were interested in

1:09.6

talking about policy and had similar values. And I got to go to

1:14.4

dinner with some other executive producers before the Boston Live show and then connect at the

1:20.9

executive producer retreat. And it's been amazing to become friends with other executive producers

1:26.1

and just form those relationships.

1:29.2

Food waste is one of the biggest climate problems we can actually solve.

1:33.0

When our leftovers and scraps end up in landfills, they emit methane, a greenhouse gas that

1:37.4

heats the planet 80 times faster than carbon dioxide.

1:41.0

And most of that waste comes from our own homes, which means that although the

1:44.2

system may be broken, we still have agency. Mill is the cleanest, easiest way to prevent food

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