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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, September 26th, the Strippers Beaving Badly Edition.

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

I'm Marcia Chattlin, a professor of history at Georgetown University. And I'm June Thomas, the senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts.

Hi, guys. Hello.

So Nicole is out sick this week. We wish her a speedy recovery abetted by the intellectual bombs will be offering

up on this episode. We're going to start off today with Kamala Harris and her time at Howard

University. There was a really good piece in the post. Then we'll discuss Malcolm Gladwell's

newly published book, specifically his take on alcohol, sexual

assault, and Brock Turner. And last, but certainly not least, hustlers, the late breaking,

I want to say it's a hit film of the summer, even though it's not technically summer anymore.

It's got J-Lo, it's got exotic dancers. It's a Robin Hood scheme against Wall Street

creeps. We're going to talk about it all. I'm so excited for that one. And June, what's our

Slate Plus segment this week? Christina, today on our Slate Plus segment, we will be asking if it is sexist

for a man to walk around naked in a home that he shares with others and those

of you who are particularly sensitive, my guess that this has a slight peg to, well, our favorite

Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, and news that is continually creeping out about his past.

You're going to want to hear that segment.

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One order of business before we get started, Nicole and I, as well as several other Slate women,

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