Episode 1: Bonjour and Hello You Guys!

Meet Paris-based journalist Leah Gillis and New Jersey legal eagle Elura Nanos, college friends who talk current events and life girlfriend-style. Join them to hang, learn, and catch up on their lives an ocean apart. Today show features: Overview: Workers’ rights during coronavirus, the federal stimulus bill, a bit of unAmericanness, and some good news. First up: Leah and Elura share the story of their college days, and it’s a great case study in the value of education, the importance of travel, and the need to generally unfuck society. Ends around minute 5. Second: Workers in the time of Corona. Workplace safety needs to be a priority in these unsafe times, yet Republican lawmakers are more concerned with business owners being shielded from lawsuits. Ends around 13:30 Third: Congress snuck a ridiculous and prudish qualification into the CARES Act (the coronavirus funding legislation). The bill excludes businesses in the sex industry. Everyone from strip clubs to porn editors have been left out; its infuriatingly puritanical and wholly unAmerican and we are pissed about it. Fourth: Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania decided to go into work without masks; as it turns out, they actually had coronavirus and were spreading it on the statehouse floor while lobbying against safety measures. It’s a giant WTF that people need to hear. Ends around 34:00 Fifth: good news –Germany is helping Muslims pray, and the U.S. has got some new contraception available. And something to think about… Ends at 40:44