Episode 53 - Everybody in Their 40s is Dumb

This week, Cara Stewart -- long time champion of healthcare and justice in Kentucky -- joins us for our month of talking to Badass Kentucky Women. We talk about her career as an attorney, including the successful fight against then Governor Bevin’s Medicaid waiver, which would have removed large numbers of folks from the rolls. We take a semi-deep dive into the Kentucky legislature, exploring the history of bills that are introduced by women legislators and eventually taken up in watered down form by other legislators and passed. Don’t think it’s all serious though - we have an especially animated discussion about how teenagers get around adults’ restrictions. If you still have a landline, you may find some useful tips, or you may just regret that you didn’t have Cara’s skills with phone wire and splitter back in 1990. Or maybe you can get some tips from an 8 year old about how to successfully skip zoom class. TL;DR - there is some power to being a cute little girl.

Recorded via Zoom in Berea, KY | Edited by Kelly Smith | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly