Beth, as we sit here recording on Monday March 14th, let's just do a vibe check. Can we

do a vibe check with ourselves? We can do that and with the world.

This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silver's. Thank you for joining us for

Pant suit Politics. Welcome to Pant suit Politics, where we try to take a different

approach to the news. Today we're going to do an honest check-in on the state of the world

and why it feels so impossibly hard to be a human and an American right now. Then we're

going to keep our promise to follow the recovery efforts in Western Kentucky after the December

tornado and share a conversation I had with Jacob Ryan about the frustrating experiences

so many are having with FEMA. And then last we're going to share our thoughts on the

very serious and very, very long new Batman movie. So journey today is what we're telling

you. Lots of today's show revolves around our experiences in our home state of Kentucky,

but we are excited to pack our vaccine and head to Texas where we know many of you live

and will be joining us on Saturday, April 30th for our big live show with Clint and Kelly

Harp of HGTV fame. It's going to be a super fun night that doubles as a party for our

book launch of Now What, How to Move Forward when we're divided about basically everything.

You will not want to miss it. You can get tickets to the link in the show notes. They

are reserve seats. So make sure that you head there now and get the seats that you want.

And also thank you to everyone who has started pre-ordering Now What. It means the world

to us will have a link in the show notes for you to do that as well.

And we can do a vibe check with ourselves and with the world. My vibe is not great. There

is a rampant stomach bug making its way across my community. Daylight saving time is terrible.

And there are just so many horrific stories in the news today between Russia's expansion

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