Hi, everyone. I hope you're doing all right. And welcome to this last stretch before the holidays.

Today's episode is a critically important one. And it also includes mentions of sexual assault.

So be warned and take care of yourself while you're listening. And if you can't listen, that's okay too. We love you.

Hey y'all, this year is slowly but surely coming to an end, or maybe rapidly, depending on my day it is. Some days, it feels like time is moving at a snail's pace, and other days it feels like I just can't keep up.

Whatever it feels like, what we know to be true is that just around the corner is Trump 2.0.

We're all preparing in some way or another.

Maybe you're making big purchases now as you anticipate the rise in prices from tariffs

or trying to stock up on shelf stable items because he definitely reneged on that grocery

price promise.

Wow, who saw that coming?

At the end of the day, we have a lot to get ready for.

And there's an open question about exactly who he is going to get to run this government.

Plenty of them have been credibly accused of sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.

If there's no moral leadership coming from the highest offices in the land, who's supposed to maintain it?

Well, that's up to us, my friends.

We're the ones we've been waiting for.

But I didn't quite know that this was going to be our task.

Okay, so let's rewind to two months ago.

In October, a few weeks before the election,

200 survivors of sexual assault took out a full-page ad in the New York Times,

loudly stating that re-electing a proven sexual abuser was utterly unacceptable.

I was very proudly one of those 200, and we all know how that turned out.

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