Lemonada.

This is Sarah Stewart-Holland.

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics, where we take a different approach to the news. Today, we're talking about Trump's big trip to the Middle East and how he seems more concerned with making money than securing peace in the region. And some of those money-making deals seem designed to benefit him and not the country. Outside of politics, we're going to talk about Southern accents. Before we get started, we're kicking off our listener drive today, something we haven't

done in quite a while, and we have a very special offer as part of this drive. Sarah and I have

built Pansu Politics from the ground up. We stay close to our roots and everything that we do. We still

record our podcasts from closets and our homes in Kentucky.

We still work with the same audio engineer, Dylan, who started with us when he graduated from college,

Elise, who runs our operations and Maggie, who focuses on our relationships with listeners, are both listeners turned colleagues.

Since 2015, we've been having conversations about politics that we hope make us better people and citizens.

So look, a lot has changed in American politics and podcasting since 2015.

And we are able to keep doing what we do because of listener support.

That's it.

That's the whole kit and caboodle.

For two big reasons.

First, financially, listeners keep our business running. Back in 2017, when we launched our first listener drive, that allowed us to hire Dylan right out of college and release our husbands from producing the show in the evenings after work. That was a great development, not just for Pantsuit Politics, but for our marriages. I think it was very important all around professionally

and personally. Very important. In 2019, listener support allowed us to start paying Elise.

In 2021, it allowed us to hire Maggie. It's allowed us to take Elise and Maggie from part-time

to full time.

There simply would not be a pantsuit politics without our listeners' financial support.

Equally important, our listeners don't just listen. Listeners almost the wrong word because you all add to our thinking.

You present new arguments. You say, here's what you're missing.

You ask us really hard questions. Your input makes everything we do better. And now most of that

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