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The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

The "Handsy Joe" Edition

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

Slate Podcasts

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

4.2903 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Waves, Hanna, June and Noreen discuss Lucy Flores' piece about her uncomfortable encounter with Joe Biden. Then, they talk to Lori Gottlieb, author of "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone", and then a conversation between host Christina Cauterucci and Mark Harris about her article on how Pete Buttigieg’s identity plays into his campaign.

In Slate Plus: Is it sexist that they had to cancel the first all-female space walk because of a missing spacesuits?

Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Our production assistant is Alex Barasch.


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0:00.0

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0:03.9

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:11.7

Welcome to the waves for Thursday, April 4th, the Hansy Joe edition.

0:16.2

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host fan PR's Infisibilia.

0:19.1

I'm laughing at Hansy Joe. It's so yucky to say. Okay,

0:22.8

Hansy Joe. In the New York studios, we have June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate

0:27.4

podcast network. Hey, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen.

0:32.7

Hello, Hannah. I will say, thank you to all the listeners who sent me business book ideas. You guys are in with the business books. I got so many good ideas. I am very, very grateful.

0:46.5

Hannah, what are a few of the most interesting sounding ones? The best one I got was the Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, which I had had around because I've been collecting them.

0:56.0

But since a few people sent me on Twitter and by email that name, I looked into it.

1:00.5

It's so well written.

1:01.8

It's such a pleasure to read.

1:02.8

It has such, you know, perfectly timed anecdotes.

1:05.4

It has such interesting advice.

1:06.8

And it's exactly the topic that I'm trying to figure out.

1:10.8

It has a really great story of this, basically this study where they hire an asshole to disrupt culture and see how different organizations respond to it.

1:22.6

And I kind of want to interview the guy whose job it is to be the asshole, you know?

1:26.8

Like he's supposed to, he sort of gets

1:28.3

himself hired for these studies at places and then is just like a jerk in all kinds of ways,

1:33.4

like leans over and whispers to people or like makes people feel excluded. He's like, he's just like

1:39.6

a niceness disruptor, you know. It's just like a really funny job.

1:44.6

Dream job, a dream job.

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