Coronavirus Everywhere
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, June, Marcia, and Nichole discuss being cooped up at home during coronavirus. Then, they review the new Hulu show Little Fires Everywhere, based on the 2017 novel by Celeste Ng. Finally, the panel discusses Sarah Viren’s New York Times Magazine piece “The Accusations Were Lies. But Could We Prove It?”
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Other items discussed on the show:
“How to WFH With Your Partner Without Killing Each Other,” by Christina Cauterucci in Slate.
“Life Inside the Title IX Pressure Cooker,” by Sarah Brown in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Radiooooo, a site where you can listen to music from different decades.
Recommendations:
Marcia: “Advice From a Prepper Mom on Surviving the Unthinkable,” by Mira Ptacin.
June: The Arne & Carlos Daily Quarantine Knitting Podcast.
Christina: Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza by Ken Forkish.
Nichole: The Screen Time feature on your phone.
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Podcast production by Rosemary Belson.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.1 | Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, March 26th, the coronavirus everywhere edition. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate, and host of the Slate podcast Outward. I'm Mar Cauterucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate Podcast Outward. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm Marcia Chathland, a professor of history at Georgetown University. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and host of Thirste Aitkitt. |
| 0:30.1 | And I'm June Thomas, senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts. |
| 0:34.3 | It's so great to hear everyone's voices. We are all recording from our home recording studios, |
| 0:40.6 | aka I've barricaded myself into a corner of my living room with couch cushions. What are y'all's |
| 0:46.2 | setups? I'm in my office and my biggest fear is that I've excluded my cat from her usual |
| 0:51.9 | morning space and that she's going to find some way of |
| 0:54.7 | exacting her revenge. I am in my bedroom, kind of on the floor, using my night table and bed as a |
| 1:07.2 | multi-layered desk for right now. I'm so innovative. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.3 | Marsha, what's your setup? |
| 1:13.6 | We have a guest room, which I'm so grateful for, and I have a white noise machine outside |
| 1:18.0 | the guest room because when I'm done recording, my husband will do therapy clients remotely, |
| 1:24.9 | and so we use a white noise machine to preserve confidentiality in this household. |
| 1:30.0 | Oh, that's so smart. Nice. |
| 1:32.1 | Everyone get one. Before we get into this week's topics, I want to share a bit of feedback that we got from a listener. |
| 1:40.2 | We got a lot of emails from folks about our segment on Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, |
| 1:46.9 | Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. So one person who wrote in is a Warren voter. |
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