The "Avocado Turd" Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.9 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome to the waves for Thursday, March 21st, the avocado turd edition. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of Ann P.R. Zinifilia. |
| 0:18.6 | In the New York studios, we have Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. |
| 0:45.9 | Hi, Noreen. Hi, Anna. Where's the accent? 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 City is not particularly beautiful. And it just was an easy, kind of wonderful seeming way of life. |
| 0:55.3 | Huh. Wonderful seeming. I'm sure there are problems. Oh, totally. Let me introduce Marsha before we keep talking about Australia. Hi, Marcia is in the DC studios, Marsha Chatlin, Professor of History, Georgetown, who you know from the other |
| 1:00.1 | show usually, but now she's joining us. Hi, Marcia. Hi, I was not in Australia last week. I know. Neither was I. |
| 1:08.6 | I had such a good time when I was in Australia. It's like just exotic, but also familiar. |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah. So it's kind of perfect. Yeah. Like it's not exhaustingly exotic because English, but it's so different. So it's just perfect. I loved it. |
| 1:24.2 | Even though I wasn't there. Okay. Well, before we get going, I will say that Slate Plus is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. |
| 1:31.5 | So if you want to come drink with us and chat with us, we would love to see you. |
| 1:35.6 | We're hosting parties on April 3rd in D.C., Brooklyn and San Francisco. |
| 1:39.0 | Go to slate.com slash live for tickets and information. |
| 1:42.5 | We would love to hang out with you. |
| 1:46.3 | All right. Are we ready to jump in? |
| 2:01.1 | Yeah. Let's do it. The college admission scandal, which I can't wait to talk about. It's been around a while, but I have not had you ladies to discuss it with. Are they blaming the moms more than the dads, plus a lot of other questions to discuss. Beto. |
| 2:01.6 | We're finally truly discussing Beto. |
| 2:03.4 | This is because of Noreen and her horniness of the electorate theory. |
| 2:07.4 | But that's not all we're going to talk about. |
| 2:09.2 | We're actually going to talk in a serious way. |
| 2:11.3 | Maybe. |
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