Political Gabfest - She's Running: Political Gabfest Presents The Waves
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, our friends at the feminism and politics podcast The Waves crafted a special episode all about women and the midterm elections. Hosts Christina Cauterucci and Hanna Rosin are joined by Senior Political Reporter for Glamour Celeste Katz, and D.C. State Democratic Committeewoman Latifa Lyles, to discuss how the ways women run for office have changed, if women really make better leaders, and how female politicians are depicted in the media.
Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Research assistance by Alex Barasch. Special thanks to T. J. Raphael for editorial direction on this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, GabFest listeners. It's me, Emily Bazelan. I am not here with a new episode of our show. Instead, I'm here with a very special midterm episode of The Waves, Slate's podcast on women, politics, and feminism. |
| 0:12.6 | Ever since Donald Trump was elected, women across the country have become re-energized in the political sphere, and there'll be a crucial voting block in this year's November election. |
| 0:22.4 | As they head to the polls, the Waves is doing a special episode on the issues most important to women voters and the female candidates to watch on Election Day. |
| 0:30.6 | Your host for this special episode include Hannah Rosen, co-host of NPR's Invisibilia, Celeste Katz, senior political reporter for Glamour magazine, |
| 0:39.6 | Latifah Liles, a former Obama administration official and former director of the Women's |
| 0:43.8 | Bureau at the Department of Labor, and Christina Cotarucci, a staff writer for Slate. |
| 0:48.5 | Before I get to this episode, I'm just going to tell you the Waves is one of my favorite shows |
| 0:52.6 | to listen to when I want to hear people think through difficult topics relating to politics and feminism and culture and gender. |
| 0:59.7 | They talked about the Kavanaugh hearings. |
| 1:01.5 | They talked about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. |
| 1:04.1 | And they've talked a lot about Stormy Daniels and the way the media has treated her. |
| 1:08.0 | One of my favorite episodes is about the future of Roe versus Wade when they had Linda |
| 1:12.0 | Greenhouse come on, an amazing guest. If you like the show, I encourage you to subscribe. New episodes |
| 1:18.1 | drop every Thursday. And we here at the Gab Fest are doing our own midterm special. Keep an eye out for |
| 1:24.3 | that on November 1st. Our special guest will be David Axelrod, former chief strategist for President Obama. |
| 1:30.1 | Thanks. |
| 1:30.7 | I hope you love this special episode of The Waves. |
| 1:34.2 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:42.6 | Hello and welcome to the Waves for Thursday, October 25th, the She's Running Edition. |
| 1:49.3 | I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate podcast Outward, |
| 1:54.5 | and you are in for a treat this week. |
| 1:57.7 | In anticipation of the upcoming midterm elections, we have a very special |
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