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Welcome to the waves for Thursday, June 28th, the jokes about straight white men edition.

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

That is the very first time I've said, welcome to the waves. I'm so excited. I didn't know how it would sound coming out of my mouth, but it was fine. It was fine. I like it. I'm joined in the New York studios by June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen is out today. So we have our very favorite special guest. Don't tell all the other special guests. Latifah Liles. Hi, Latifah. Hi, good morning. Latifah is an expert on women in work, which she's talked to us about before, former director of the Women's Bureau at the Labor Department under Obama, and currently vice president, the National Network, to end domestic violence, all of which is to say she knows a lot more than us about a lot of important things that we talk about all the time.

Anyway, I'm glad you're with us.

Thanks, me too.

So, okay, I am back from vacation, so let's jump in.

I'm excited to talk to you guys again.

Before we get going, I want to let listeners know that we have a live show coming up on July 17th to celebrate the relaunch of the waves. It's in D.C. And you should go to slate.com slash live to get tickets. It is going to be an awesome show. We're going to have Ellen Stofan, the head of air and space. She was the chief scientist at NASA. So all you lady space nuts or men space nuts who are dreaming of going to Mars, you can come. And we will be auctioning off tickets for the first spaceship to Mars. Just kidding. We don't have that power. But you can ask her about it. And our also special musical guest, Back Eye, which

Christina Cotarucci talked about on our last podcast, a great local band. All right, let's jump in.

Today we are going to talk about first Hannah Gadsby, Australian. Do you call it Tasmanians,

Australians? Is that okay to do, June?

Absolutely. But is there some like point of pride where you're

supposed to say Tasmanian instead of Australian or not? No, I don't think so. No, it's just a part of Australia. I mean, it's a very specific part, but it's, I don't think they, I don't think there's a breakaway movement or anything. Yeah. Okay. So an Australian comedian who breaks into the U.S. with a stunning monologue, which we will discuss.

Second,

we're going to talk about the Supreme Court ruling on crisis pregnancy centers. And finally,

have we reached the end of the pantsuit era? Please God, we discuss changing fashion in politics.

And June, you want to talk about our Slate Plus? Yes, on Slate Plus this week, we will be asking, is it sexist that men, mostly men, but let's face it, men, get a free pass to watch the World Cup just openly, publicly, during work hours every four years?

Can't wait.

If you are not yet a Slate Plus member and you want to hear that conversation and all the other conversations that we have and all the other benefits of being a Slate Plus member, including a discount at

live shows, including hours on July 17th. You should go to slate.com slash the waves plus.

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