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Welcome to the waves for Thursday, July 5th, the Big B Energy Edition.

I'm Christina Kauterucci, a staff writer at Slate.

And for once, everybody involved

in the making of this podcast is in one homey studio.

So here with me in Slates Brooklyn's studio

is our producer Verlin Williams.

Hello, how are you, Christina? I'm doing all right, how are right. Good to see you. Yeah, I know this is incredible.

It feels like one big family.

Joining the family for the first time on this podcast is the senior politics editor at The Intercept,

contributing editor at Current Affairs, and co-host of the podcast Swoty,

or someone's wrong on the internet, Brianna Joy Gray.

Welcome Brianna. Thank you. It's so great to be here. Yeah, we're so happy to have you. I've been reading a lot of your work recently because of a piece I wrote so I can't wait to ask you about it. So today's episode is going to start with Alexandria

Ocasio Cortez the 28-year-old Democratic Socialist and likely future

Congresswoman who is striking fear into the hearts of establishment Democrats around the country.

Then we will apply our critical and intellectual faculties to the very important and very timely concept of Big dick energy doesn't exist what does it mean and

why are we talking about it and finally we will discuss the debates around the

Atlantic's recent cover story on kids who identify as trans discuss the

debates around the Atlantic's recent cover story on kids who identify as trans. Also today in our

slate-plus segment where we take a topic and rate it from 1 to 10 on how sexist

it is, we will decide is the media's coverage of Ali Watkins, the New York Times

reporter who had an affair with James Wolf, a senior aide to the Senate Intelligence Committee,

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