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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, November 7th.

The Ronan Farrow's On the Line edition.

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

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

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

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

Before we get into our topics, I want to call out two of our listeners who wrote in about the segment we did on our last episode about

mixed politics couples. Both of the listeners were gay and pointed out that we did not talk

about gay relationships in our episode. Mia Culpa totally should have brought that up. But both of

the people who wrote in were in their own mixed politics relationships.

One is Paul. He writes that he and Rick, these are pseudonyms, by the way, have been together

for eight years. They seemed like they were politically aligned when they first got together.

But Rick got what he calls red-pilled in 2016 as Trump was campaigning. Paul says that,

you know, we sort of drew a line in our segment between people who were always sort of Trump

supporters and people whose politics changed because of Trump. Paul says that Rick was a case of somebody who truly had a political conversion because Trump hit all the right notes.

Paul says they're still together, even though they have intense arguments every now and then, but they end up falling back on what Paul calls the only resolution

possible. We have to agree to disagree on this because they fit so well together. They fill

such vital roles for each other that a huge political disagreement just kind of pales in

comparison. Thank you so much, Paul, for writing in. That was a very interesting perspective.

And I'm glad to know that we have some mixed politics couples among our listeners.

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