This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pant suit Politics.

We are so glad you're joining us for this very special episode.

We are celebrating our seventh birthday here at the podcast.

We're going to be talking about what we've learned over the past seven years and some

of our favorite memories from our time as podcasters.

We're also going to be talking to Bloomberg reporter Ashley Carmen about the state of the

podcasting industry we love, Ashley.

And she always has such smart things to say about what's going on with podcasting.

So we thought this would be a good moment to share some of that with all of you and we'll

wrap up the show by sharing some of your reflections on seven years of Pant suit politics.

We are aware that we are less than a week out from a midterm election and we do think

that's important and our message to you today is vote, vote early, vote wisely, encourage

your friends and neighbors to vote, take people with you to vote, make your voices heard,

and then we just have to wait.

And so instead of doing a bunch of wild speculation today and spinning ourselves up into anxiety,

we're going to step back and look at the big picture of what we do in a podcasting.

Speaking of, you're going to hear Ashley Carmen talk about video as a big part of what's

going on in the podcast industry.

We are not really there yet at Pant suit politics, but we have made a first step in our direction.

And our tiptoe has taken us on to YouTube as a platform.

This is a very easy way to share the episodes.

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