The "Avocado Turd" Edition

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

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News Commentary, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Sexuality, News

4.2 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week on The Waves, Hanna, Noreen and Marcia talk the college admission scandal that implicated multiple celebrities last week. Then, they try and figure out the appeal of Beto O’Rourke. Lastly, they share their thoughts on the Hulu original series Shrill. In Slate Plus: Are March Madness brackets sexist? Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Our production assistant is Alex Barasch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The First, the Avocado Turd Edition. I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of Antiphears in Physapilia.
0:15.1	In the New York studios, we have Noreen Malone
0:17.3	of New York magazine.
0:18.4	Hi, Noreen.
0:19.0	Hi, Anna.
0:20.1	Where's the accent?
0:21.8	I know, right? I'm ready to move to Australia. This is just a temporary return to New York. I loved it there. Is that true? Yeah, I loved it there. I had such a good time. It was it's also like beautiful in a time when New York
0:36.0	City is not particularly beautiful and it just was an easy kind of wonderful
0:41.4	seeming way of life.
0:43.0	Huh, wonderful seeming.
0:45.0	I'm sure there are problems.
0:47.0	Oh, totally.
0:48.0	Let me introduce Marsha before we keep talking about Australia.
0:51.0	Hi, Marsha is in the DC studios, Marsha
0:53.4	Chadlin professor of history, Georgetown who you know from the other show
0:57.1	usually, but now she's joining us. Hi Marsha. Hi, I was not in Australia
1:01.5	last week. I know, neither was I.
1:05.0	I had such a good time when I was in Australia.
1:07.0	It's like just exotic but also familiar,
1:10.0	you know?
1:11.0	So it's kind of perfect.
1:12.0	Yeah. Like it's not exhaustingly exotic because English but it's so different so it's just perfect. I loved it.
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