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Welcome to the waves for Thursday, January 10th, the horny inner politics edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's and Visibilia.

In the New York studios, we have the great June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Hi, June Thomas. Hey, Hannah Rosen. That's a long title. I want to just say, of Slade Podcasts, no, because you have to own the network. No, no, no. I don't like that particularly, so feel free to just say podcast. Shorten it. Okay, what's your net worth? And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hello. Happy New Year. Same to you. It's 2019. Ah, yeah, I didn't send you my traditional New Year's text this year. I know. Oh, that's right. You do. You do usually do that. I thought about it.

And when I realized the day after I'm like, oh, man, I didn't, you know, troll Hannah at New Year's.

Hannah, what were you doing?

Were you dropping the ball in Times Square?

Why drop the ball in our text?

All these years.

I was sitting on the damn ball.

It was like swinging.

No, I think. You were a wrecking ball? A little party. Nice. I was my own wrecking ball in my own house. Yeah, it was pretty fun. It was pretty fun. What did you guys do? This was the most trouble I've ever had staying up until midnight. I'm just, you know, on the edge party at these days. I went to a wedding, a New Year's wedding, which was kind of glamorous. Really?

Yeah. When was the ceremony? Wow. Like, I don't know, 839. On New Year's Eve? On New Year's Eve.

Wow. I've never heard of such a thing. It was cool. It was like an excuse to really dress up.

Yeah, I bet. Wow. And what happened at midnight? Countdown, dance floor countdown. So the wedding had happened. The wedding had happened. People were fading, but everyone stayed out until midnight. That's awesome. All right. Well, in the new year, let's get started. We've got two little things to say. We're going to have a show in Australia on March 10th.

So, you know, just hop on a plane.

Go to say. We're going to have a show in Australia on March 10th.

So, you know, just hop on a plane. Go to Australia. All our Australian fans, we can't wait to meet you.

Since it's a big country, let's just mention it, it is in Sydney at the Sydney Opera House, in fact.

Which is extremely cool. Very cool. Yeah. Very beautiful building. And to all you Mrs. Maisel fans who we

insulted, God bless you. Like, the basic message we got is when times are hard, can you just let us

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