Troublemakers vs Chaos Causers (with Kristi Hirst)

The Suburban Women Problem

Red Wine & Blue

News, Kids & Family, Politics, Parenting, Government

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Here at Red Wine & Blue, we talk a lot about “troublemakers” and “making good trouble” (inspired in part by the late great John Lewis). Our network TroubleNation is made up of hundreds of local grassroots groups across the country — women like Kristi, a mom and former teacher in California who’s been standing up for the public schools in her area.Troublemakers band together with other badass women in their communities who share their values. They make things better for their kids, friends...

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0:00.0	The more of us speak out, the safer we are.
0:09.4	Oh, 100%.
0:10.5	You know, we're stronger together.
0:12.2	And it is scary.
0:13.4	But when there's a lot of us, we are something to contend with.
0:19.6	Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from Red, Wine, and Blue.
0:26.8	Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I'm Jasmine Clark. I'm Amanda Weinstein.
0:31.4	And you're listening to The Suburban Women Problem. So there's no getting around it. Last week was tough. And I feel like tough is just for lack of better vocabulary right now.
0:43.3	Because it was tougher than tough. Right. So Trump was inaugurated, as we know, and there were so many bad policies and executive orders already. But it's important to focus on the things that
0:56.2	we actually can change. So this week we'll be joined by Christy Hearst, a mom and former teacher
1:02.7	in California who's been doing a great job focusing on what she can change at her local
1:09.1	school board. She started getting together with other moms to drink wine
1:13.3	and talk about how they can stand up for their schools. But before we get to that, let's talk about
1:18.8	some of these terrible Trump policies and also what we can actually do. So Amanda, what's been
1:26.5	going on in our group chat besides us all just like losing it?
1:30.4	It's like executive order Russian roulette. Like pick one. They're all terrible. Like put the pen down.
1:38.0	Oh my gosh. They're so terrible. I mean, the deportations. This I have heard from multiple people about ICE people showing up at schools, about ICE
1:48.3	showing up at Mexican restaurants.
1:51.3	Just leave us alone.
1:52.4	I just think that there's something really dystopian about ICE knocking on the door of a church
1:59.3	and arresting people as they're worshipping.
2:01.6	Terrible.
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