This is Sarah Stewart Holland, and this is Beth Silverz, thank you for joining us for

a Pantsuit Politics.

Hello everyone and welcome to Pantsuit Politics. If you follow us on social media

or are a premium member, you know that we have been for days counting down to a big

change here at Pantsuit Politics and you just heard it. Beth, today is the official

launch of our new theme music. We hope you like it. It was hard to figure out what

we wanted to do. It was important to us to find something that represented what

we do here, well, that added some freshness and a dynamic experience to your

listening and we hope we got it. And as always, we were led by this community who, when

we mentioned, we might be changing the theme music, we're like, please no doubt. And then

we thought, okay, wait, what if we use the melody? And we just update it. And so that's

what we did. We worked with the incredibly talented Zander Singh to update Dante's

original melody. And we are so thrilled with the results. And we hope you are too. And

so this is a new day here at Pantsuit Politics. We're still going to take our different

approach to the news. And today we want to talk about place rural versus urban as represented

by one particular very controversial country music song and video, as well as traveling

to new places and the politics surrounding the fact that quite a bit of us are traveling

these days. And then outside politics, I will share about my trip to Scotland, Ireland

and London. If you're interested in exploring a new different place and a smaller town

than you might be accustomed to, we have a great opportunity for you. We're hosting

our very first Pantsuit Politics Weekend in Paduca, Kentucky, which is Sarah's beloved

hometown. We'd love for you to join us there. It's going to be a series of events over

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