This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silver's. You're listening to Pantsu Politics, where we take a different approach to the news. We're so glad that you're here today. Often, we're so glad that you're here today.

Often listeners tell us that they tune in for some political

therapy and I just think we need that right now as we are getting so close to the

election we're just gonna talk about that we're gonna process our feelings

about where this race is and where it's going and the conversations

we're having and how we see it and we hope that you will feel really seen and

heard in this conversation. And then we'll end by talking about the very

different ways that Sarah and I both got a little bit of rest and fun over the past couple of weeks through Sarah's trip to Yellowstone National Park and my quick weekend in Las Vegas.

The first we wanted to share an incredibly important announcement here at pansu politics.

You all know that we are an independent podcast in the news and

politics space. We operate from our homes. Our business is unusual, even some would argue,

improbable that we have been doing this for nine years

without investors without being bought by a major media company and the way we have

been able to do that is through the people who

listen to the show who have supported us financially every step of the way.

Now those people as you know get premium shows,

good morning for me and more to say from Beth. And for a long time, those two premium shows and all that financial support

has fueled the two free podcast we do here every week.

Now we have taken stock after some big changes in the podcast industry

about how we can work better, how we can make it even easier to

participate in that community and how more importantly we can get that community

in one place and so we have made a very big decision to move our premium community to

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