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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, February 28th, the Cookiemanster edition.

I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate, and host of the Slate podcast Outward. This week, we have a special crossover episode planned. So joining me from New York, we have Slate podcast senior managing producer June Thomas. Hi, June. Hey, Christina. Welcome to the other week. We're all one week, Christina. We're all one week.

I see no weeks. I see no weeks. No week blind people here at the waves. So we are really stoked to have a new guest on the show this week. We've got Nicole Perkins,

writer and co-host of the podcast Thirst Aid Kit. Welcome to the Waves, Nicole.

Hi. Thank you for having me. I'm really excited. Yeah, we're so happy to have you. So this week,

we are going to start with a review of one day at a time, the Netflix sitcom that just dropped its third

season this month. Then we'll talk about a plagiarism scandal in the romance novel industry.

And for our third topic, reply guys, the guys who reply to every single thing you tweet.

For our Slate Plus segment today, we're going to decide whether the near universal condemnation of Senator Diane Feinstein for her treatment of a bunch of child protesters is sexist.

If you're not a Slate Plus member yet and you want to know if that's sexist, you can start your free two-week trial by visiting slate.com slash the waves plus.

So before we get started, I want to thank all the listeners who wrote in about our segment on Amy Klobuchar.

People wrote in from both sides.

We had people who thought we didn't give enough credence to the idea that

she was being unfairly criticized because she's a woman. And then we had people who've worked

for bosses like Klobuchar who said it's way past time that we stopped giving women passes for

behavior like this. I will say to those who saw or identified sexism in the way that these

stories have been really gobbled up and think pieced about for a couple of weeks now,

I think it's more the fact that she's running for president than the fact that she's a woman

as far as why people are really, you know, excited to read about and write about

all the ways that she's allegedly a terrible boss. I think if Cory Booker or Bernie Sanders or

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