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Hi, and welcome to Everything is Fine, a podcast for Women Over 40. We are your hosts. I'm Kim France. And I'm Jen Romalini.

And I've got it so barely together today that I almost forgot my line just said.

I mean, what do you expect? We're living in like some sort of post situation. Like we're living in an aftermath already. We're

already at the beginning of an aftermath. No, it's really true. It's really true. And I'm finding

that I want to figure out a way over the next four years to both completely ignore the news

and become politically involved. I'm not sure

how that's going to look, but that's what I want to do. I, I too feel the same ways. So I will tell you

what I've been doing. I want to hear. I subscribed to my local paper, to the print edition of my local paper, which is the Los Angeles

Times. I am learning so much about gentrification and about like school boards and all of these

things. I'm reading it every morning. I'm putting aside a half hour instead of looking at my phone

to read local news. I also, and this might

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