A Very Waves Reunion
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, it’s a very special reunion episode. Original hosts of The Waves, June Thomas, Noreen Malone, and Hanna Rosin gather together to catch up on everything that’s happened since their last episode in July 2019. They talk about topics they wish they could have covered, how the workforce has changed for women, bits of culture they’ve loved over the last couple of years, and how hosting The Waves made them more interesting people.
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Recommendations:
June: Showtime’s Yellowjackets
Noreen: Hulu’s series Only Murders in the Building
Hanna: The Electricity of Every Living Thing, by Katherine May, and The Great British Baking Show
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the waves. This is the waves. This is the waves. This is the waves. This is the waves. |
| 0:06.6 | This is the waves. Welcome to the waves slates podcast about gender, feminism and reunions. Hey, if it's |
| 0:18.7 | good enough for sex in the city or the outward for that matter, it's good enough |
| 0:22.2 | for us. I'm June Thomas senior |
| 0:24.3 | managing producer of slate podcast this week we have a Chris Muker miracle for one week |
| 0:29.8 | only we've reassembled the first wave of Wave's podcast hosts so I'm joined by |
| 0:34.0 | Hannah Rosen who runs New York magazine's podcast. Hey Hannah. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi! Then Norem Malone who is an editor at Lodge at Slit. |
| 0:43.1 | Hi Noreen, hi, June, it's so nice to hear your voice. |
| 0:46.4 | Hannah and Noreen have different job titles |
| 0:48.5 | since the last time we recorded an episode together |
| 0:51.2 | way back in June 2019. So give me the |
| 0:54.4 | low down. What have you each been up to? I had changed a lot about my life. So I was |
| 0:58.9 | the editorial director of New York magazine and I left that job to go work on the Sloburn |
| 1:04.7 | podcast at Slate. Season 5 on the lead up to the Iraq War and then I like a |
| 1:10.2 | week after Sloburn ended I had a baby. I got engaged and got married and had a baby all |
| 1:15.9 | since I left doing this podcast regularly. So my life looks totally different. |
| 1:20.8 | No kidding. |
| 1:23.0 | Don't you imagine more changes? |
| 1:24.2 | Well, Hana, it's hard to imagine more changes. |
| 1:26.9 | Oh my God, it's so weird. |
| 1:28.3 | I feel like everything Norrine said, |
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