Hanna and Noreen's Last Show
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Waves, on Hanna and Noreen’s last episode, Hanna, June and Noreen discuss, the place of HR departments, Jefferey Epstein charges and Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s new novel “Fleishman is In Trouble”. Skip to recommendations at 1:00:00 to skip "Fleishman is in Trouble” spoilers.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.9 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to the waves for Thursday, July 11th, Hanna and Noreen's Last Show. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Elizabeth, In the New York studios, we have the lovely June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. Where do you think the convention of The Lovely comes from? Do you know what I mean? Like how that trips off your tongue and you're like, The Lovely, this one? Does that come from cheesy television or game shows? Or what? Hi, Noreen, sorry. And Noreen |
| 0:37.6 | Malone from New York Magazine. I'm not lovely. What the heck? You're not lovely. And the lovely Noreen Malone. I think it might come from beauty pageants. Oh, wow. Doesn't it sound like a beauty pageant intro? Fuck, really? But here's the thing. Like, who's watched a beauty pageant even ironically in many years so like how could that have |
| 0:55.2 | like gotten inside our language so so efficiently but it feels very 1940s and the lovely |
| 1:03.7 | norea alone yeah so like tv intro tv mc kind of thing yeah just inherited just inherited. Mm-hmm. Yeah. |
| 1:11.5 | Okay. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, I'd take it back then. |
| 1:13.9 | Before we get started, as some of you might know, this is the last show for me and |
| 1:18.2 | Noreen, although the waves will continue to go strong with its new cast and also with June. |
| 1:24.3 | I really, oh, my God, do I want to thank our listeners for the most beautiful emails and notes you wrote? |
| 1:31.7 | They, some of them actually made me cry. Chang, I'm talking to you, who talked about, well, this one's |
| 1:39.1 | kind of like it's about me, so I'm just going to say it, but it was so sweet. It was like you're |
| 1:43.7 | the older sister I never had note, which I thought was going to say it, but it was so sweet. It was like you're the older sister I |
| 1:44.6 | never had note, which I thought was so dear. And then there's Lauren H. who's quietly weeping |
| 1:50.1 | under my sunglasses. Anyway, don't you guys feel that way? I just felt genuinely touched by the |
| 1:56.4 | kind of intimate personal nature of some of the notes that we got when we announced that we |
| 2:00.8 | were leaving. |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah. Yeah. I'm like sort of reclumped over them. Yeah. It's nice. Because often people write |
| 2:08.3 | in to tell us when we're doing something wrong, you know? Yes. And now this was like people who've |
| 2:14.6 | who've sort of been silent and telling us now that like, oh, thank you. |
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