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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, July 18th, the is Azizan Sari-Sari edition.

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

Hi, I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thirst 8Kitt.

I'm Marcia Chathland, 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 in you guys.

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.

Then we're going to talk about right now, Aziz Ansari's new stand-up special, his first release since he faced allegations last year that he had pressured a young woman into sex acts.

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