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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, September 12th, the couples therapy edition.

I'm Christina Caudrucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate Podcast Outward.

I'm June Thomas, the senior managing producer of Slate Podcast.

I'm Marcia Chathland, a professor of history at Georgetown University.

And I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thirst Aid Kit.

Hi, everyone.

Hi.

Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. everyone. Happy to hang out this week.

We have just a quick update on some of our topics from last week.

First of all, I just got an email, like a press release from SAG AFRA, the union that film and TV actors are in.

And apparently the union is now working on developing standards and protocols

for intimacy coordination, what we just talked about last week. They have a working group,

I guess, that is trying to develop policies to protect all the actors in the union and to

help intimacy coordinators have sort of a standard way of interacting with productions.

So I'm sure our podcast was the reason for that. We made a lot of social change there. We also got a lot of good emails about our segment on Elizabeth Warren and quote unquote electability and quote unquote likeability. One person I'm not sure listened to this segment but just sort of came out and said electability and quote unquote likeability. One person I'm not sure listened to this

segment but just sort of came out and said electability and likeability are concepts that I'm

not even paying attention to this election cycle. I refuse to read anything or listening

to anything about them. I'm only paying attention to policies. We had another listener write in

Alan. Alan said Warren should be

judged as an individual for good or ill, but virtually everyone will make a broad brush judgment

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