Books bring people together.

Well, book bans force them apart.

And it's my opinion that in this country, we're already really far apart.

Shouldn't we be trying to build those bridges?

Exactly.

We got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.

Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from red, wine, and blue.

Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I'm Jasmine Clark. I'm Amanda Weinstein. I'm Rachel Vindman.

And you're listening to The Suburban Women Problem. This week, I'm really excited to share my interview of best-selling author, Jody Pico. It was so fun to talk to Jody. And I'm such a fan of her work. And before that, we'll be joined by Carrie Worsenski,

an activist and librarian in Pennsylvania who's standing up against book bands. But first,

can we talk about our 100th episode event last week? How fun was that? It was fun. It was like once

we got started, it was far less stressful than I expected.

Yeah, I was, I mean, it just flowed.

And I love that the listeners got a chance to kind of like see how we just kind of flow.

I'm shocked.

No one's asked us to like host a talk show or something.

I know.

I know.

We don't fight enough for that. We have to like fight more and be more catty for a talk show. That's true. There's no like water throwing or like, you know, cursing. I can be catty, but not with you guys. Yeah. Just like, why would I? Yeah. And I also thought Heather Cox Richardson was amazing. I think that. Yeah. I always love when she brings like her historical perspective to things,

but it was it was just A1 last week. I really, really enjoyed it. Oh yeah. It's very grounding.

I also love seeing all the cities people were from where I was like, what? North Dakota and what?

New Mexico was like, I don't know. That was just very cool. I never

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