TOPICS DISCUSSED

Election Day Check-In
Pantsuit Politics Turns Nine!
Outside of Politics: Self-Care During Election Week

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EPISODE RESOURCES

Join us on Substack for live election night coverage! We’ll be in the chat and then live video at 9pm ET.
Process your post-election stress with Sarah, Beth, and Vanessa Zoltan of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text! Join us in Boston via live stream on November 7 - for a fun night among friends.
Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how (Des Moines Register)
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms (Pro Publica)
Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign (The Atlantic)
One-Third of Voters Have Already Cast Ballots. See the Early Vote Breakdown. (The New York Times)
Sammi Tannor Cohen (Instagram)
Podcast Media Bias Chart (Ad Fontes Media via Facebook)
Kamala Harris and Maya Rudolph on SNL (TikTok)

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TRANSCRIPT

Sarah [00:00:07] This is Sarah Stewart Holland.

Beth [00:00:09] This is Beth Silvers.

Sarah [00:00:10] You're listening to Pantsuit Politics.

Beth [00:00:12] Where we take a different approach to the news.

[00:00:14] Music Interlude.

[00:00:30] Hi. Hello. How are you? It is Election Day. We are trying to wait today and manage our stress levels. We don't know when we'll know anything. I feel like everything I've read today Sarah has been like, well, she could win or he could win. And she could win today or tomorrow.

Sarah [00:00:53] Or later.

Beth [00:00:53] Or next week or in December. Or he could win today or tomorrow or next week or in December.

Sarah [00:00:59] Later.

Beth [00:00:59] And so those are the things, these are the options that we have. And because of that, we're going to take a little detour today. So we'll do a little tiny bit about the election in our first segment, but then we're going to get to something just fun. Pantsuit Politics turned nine this weekend.

Sarah [00:01:17] Yay!

Beth [00:01:18] Yay! I told Chad maybe that means that we are moody and a little awkward and don't fit perfectly into any space at this point.

Sarah [00:01:25] That's true.

Beth [00:01:26] It seems right.

Sarah [00:01:27] Yeah.

Beth [00:01:28] So we thought it would be a good time for us to give you a state of the podcast, what's happening here at Pantsuit Politics. It's been a big year for us. We want to give you some glimpses behind the scenes about how our business runs, the struggles that we've had this year and how we are adapting for the future.

Sarah [00:01:41] Listen, podcast people love nothing more than talking about podcasts. This is an appropriate detour for Election Day. I'm just saying.

Beth [00:01:47] I hope that's true. I hope it meets you right exactly where you are. And then Outside of Politics, we're just going to talk about like how we are in fact managing our stress levels for the next 48 hours through January. I think is what the experts believe we need.

Sarah [00:02:01] That's correct.

Beth [00:02:02] So today, hopefully, we get what you need. Election updates, something to distract you, ways to take care of yourself. It's all here. Let's do it.

[00:02:09] Music Interlude.

Sarah [00:02:17] Beth, last night Felix looked at my dad and went, "Have you seen that Iowa poll?" And my dad was like, no. And he was like, "Kamala is winning." And then it devolved into a conversation about the mic stand performance, but it was hilarious. That's how big the Selzer poll was. The nine year old at the table was like, "Hey, have you seen that Iowa poll?"

Beth [00:02:38] I would be very interested in hearing how the mic stand conversation went down at your family dinner table.

Sarah [00:02:44] It went badly. The 15-year-old was simulating me. And then he said what in front of my 88 year old grandmother. And we all went, whoa! And he was like, what?

Beth [00:02:56] She knows, too.

Sarah [00:02:58] He was like, what? Everybody at the table knows. And I'm like I guess it's fair, but gross and also gross.

Beth [00:03:05] I thought that was one of the more revealing moments of this campaign. And I thought that SNL nailed it. I wondered if you were happier with James Austin Johnson this week?

Sarah [00:03:13] He's still not orange enough. He's not orange at all. And it really upsets me. Every time I'm like, why are you not orange? Maybe it's just too hard to get off for t...