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. Thank you for joining us here today during our conversation about the southern border on

Friday we mentioned several countries in South America and passing and we didn't

want to do that. We want to spend more time with the people in countries of Latin America here today.

We're going to have a lot of elections in that continent over the coming months.

So we want to talk about that.

We want to talk about some of the reforms.

Lots of very interesting things happening in Latin America that we think are relevant to your life.

We have a country using Bitcoin as legal tender. We have a country going through multiple

constitutional referendums that we think is applicable to us here in the

United States. We have some threats about, oh you want to send migrants back

to our country? Well then you better leave us alone on this

front. So we got lots to share. We think you're going to find it interesting. And then of course at the end of the

show we'll talk about what's on our mind outside of politics and we're going to talk about the

Grammys. Before we get into all of that, we are celebrating an anniversary here.

Wanted to share that with you somehow.

Our first book, I think you're wrong, but I'm listening,

a guide to Gracefield political conversation is five years old as we're recording today.

It's going to kindergarten, Beth. Can you believe? Can you believe our book is starting school?

Our little book that was the impetus for me to quit my full-time job when we signed the

contract for our book that's when I felt like okay I can really commit to this this is

legitimate it is a thing and now we have had former Secretary of State and First Lady and

Senator Hillary Clinton call it a book club staple and thousands of people

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