joined in this segment of our weekly spotlight on podcasts by the cohosts of pantsuit politics, sarah stewart holland and beth silvers. welcome to both of you. >> thank you for having us. host: sarah, tell us about the podcast. how did it start and what is it about? >> we started back in 2015. we really started because we wanted to have the type of conversations we were not seeing anywhere else, critical conversations where you could say i don't know or i think i might have changed my mind about that. we thought maybe our moms and friends will listen but it turns out there was an entire community of people that were hungry for more holistic conversations about what was happening in the news. host: i will remind our viewers that if you would like to talk to our guests, you can do so on our lines by party affiliation. democrats (202) 748-8000, republicans (202) 748-8001 and independents (202) 748-8002. where did you get the name pantsuit politics? >> sarah had the name for quite some time. she had been heavily involved in politics for her career and was considering a podcast where she would talk to wom

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joined in this segment of our weekly spotlight on podcasts by the cohosts of pantsuit politics, sarah stewart hollandcome to both of you. >> thank you for having us. host: sarah, tell us about the podcast. how did it start and what is it about? >> we started back in 2015. we really started because we wanted to have the type of conversations we were not seeing anywhere else, critical conversations where you could say i don't know or i think i might have changed my mind about that. we thought maybe our moms and friends will listen but it turns out there was an entire community of people that were hungry for more holistic conversations about what was happening in the news. host: i will remind our viewers that if you would like to talk to our guests, you can do so on our lines by party affiliation. democrats (202) 748-8000, republicans (202) 748-8001 and independents (202) 748-8002. where did you get the name pantsuit politics? >> sarah had the name for quite some time. she had been heavily involved in politics for her career and was considering a podcast where she would talk to women running for office.