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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, April 11th, the Honky Tonk Padonka-Dong edition.

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

Joining me on today's episode is Georgetown University History Professor Marcia Chatlin. Hey, Marcia.

Hi, Christina. Marcia's actually not in D.C. with me today. She's in New York with

writer and co-host of the podcast Thirst Aid Kit, Nicole Perkins.

Hi, Nicole.

Hi.

So we have a very happy announcement to make on this week's episode.

This is our permanent lineup.

Me, Marcia, Nicole, happy little trio.

Occasionally we'll sub in other folks as necessary, but this is it.

Welcome.

We're happy to have you.

This week, we're going to chat with NPR's Yo-Wei Shaw about an invisibilia episode she reported on how race affects sexual and romantic preferences and whether people can or should try to hack their own desires.

Then we'll talk about nemesies on Twitter and in real life.

And finally, we'll discuss country music and whether it's a hostile genre for female musicians.

All right. And Marcia, what are we doing for Slate Plus?

For this week's Slate Plus is it sexist segment. We ask, is it sexist to want a fresh face in politics? And here's a sneak peek of what we talked about. You know, he was like, you've got to keep Trump. You know, someone asked him, why did he say that? And he's like, you've got to keep Trump's misogynistic followers in mind if you want to flip them.

Cool.

So we're just going to.

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