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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, January 17th, the Grandmother's Fart Edition.

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

And here with me today in Slate's DC studio is Georgetown University History Professor Marcia

Chathlin. Hi, Marcia. Hi, Christina. Thank you so much for coming back to the show.

And joining us from New York, we have Kristen Mineser, who co-hosts the podcast by the book. Hey, Kristen.

Hey, thanks so much for having me back. So we have a lot to get into this week. We're going to start off with Surviving R. Kelly, a documentary series that takes a new look at the R&B star's long alleged history of sexually

abusing girls and young women. Then we're going to take on the concept of burnout. Is it a

millennial thing, a late capitalism thing, or an everyone everywhere at all times thing? And for our

third topic, we're going to discuss whether or not there's a revolution of older women in power at hand.

For our Slate Plus segment today, we will decide whether or not it's sexist to applaud and cheer for the Bezos family's lack of a prenuptial agreement.

If you're not a Slate Plus member yet, you can start your free two-week

trial by visiting slate.com slash the waves plus. Before we get into our first topic, I am so

excited to announce that the Waves is going to Australia, a place that I've never been before,

and a place I've heard wonderful things about.

We're so excited it's going to be March 10th at the Sydney Opera House.

It's part of the All About Women Festival.

We will hopefully have at least one incredible Australian luminary to interview, and we hope to meet a

lot of our Australian listeners there. Again, it's March 10th. It's a Sunday at 3 p.m.

You can get tickets online at Sydney Opera House.com. Hope to see you there.

All right. Our first topic for today, surviving R. Kelly.

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