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Pantsuit Politics

The Briefcase: McCain, Trump, Session, Kobach and more

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:31.5

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0:45.0

bedding, prepare your holiday wardrobe or get ready to host Alfresco.

0:49.9

The news keeps moving and there's so much to cover. We experiment with a new lightning round format in today's briefcase.

1:10.6

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right. You're listening to Panty Politics.

1:16.2

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

1:25.6

Welcome to another episode of the briefcase. Before we get started we wanted to remind everyone

1:50.2

to save the date. Tuesday, August 15th we are coming to Nashville for our first ever live podcast.

1:56.0

We are so excited and we hope to have the ticket set up through our host Red Pepper. We're

2:02.6

really excited to be joining them sometime probably next week so you guys can start buying tickets.

2:08.4

We are going to do a workshop from about three to five and then the live podcast will start at five

2:14.0

thirty. So say the date, get your tickets. It's going to be really fun. We're also really excited

2:21.2

about our bonus podcast this month for Patreon. We are going to do a little bit of a news fast

2:27.1

between episodes so that we can see how we react differently when we've taken a step back. So

2:32.1

if you haven't headed over to patreon.com it's p-a-t-r-e-o-n.com to become a supporter of Panty Politics.

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