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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday July 18th, the Is Azizan Sorry,

edition. I'm Christina Kaudevucci. The Is a Zizan Sorry, Sorry Edition.

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

Hi, I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thirsteakit.

I'm Marsha Chatland, a professor of history at Georgetown University and I'm

June Thomas senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts. And this is the first

episode of our new four-person lineup of The Waves.

Thank you for taking me and you guys.

Thank you.

I just want to say it's been great to read so many emails from listeners about how much

they love Hannah and Noreen.

I know before I even started at Slate four years ago I had listened to them.

They're both you know career role models for me and it's you know sad that they've left but I

It's the kind of thing where you almost get to see your own funeral where like everyone gets to say all these nice things about them, but they're still alive

So that's been really fun and I'm extra excited that now June you've gotten to join our week of the waves.

Well, thank you.

All right, this week's show, we are going to start with the Dust Up at Riverside Church,

a major Protestant church in Manhattan that just ousted its

first female head pastor in its long history, in part because she took a congregant and two church

employees to a sex shop.

Marsha's already rolling her eyes.

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