The “Live From Slate Day” Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, The Waves is live from Slate Day in a crossover drag brunch with Slate’s Outward Podcast. June, Nichole and Noreen are joined by Brandon Tensley and Bryan Lowder to discuss Booksmart. Plus, interviews with FLONY Chirlane McCray and Ru Paul’s Drag Race’s Miz Cracker.
In Slate Plus: The panel takes pride or provocation questions from the audience
Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Our production assistant is Alex Barasch.
Email your topic suggestions and responses to thewaves@slate.com or tweet @junethomas, @tnwhiskeywoman and @noreenmalone with your thoughts.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.8 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.5 | Hello, and welcome to the waves for Thursday, June 13th. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm June Thomas, bringing you a very special episode of the show. |
| 0:20.5 | On Saturday, Noreen Malone, Nicole Perkins and I |
| 0:23.3 | joined Brian Lauda and Brandon Tensley of Outward, |
| 0:26.4 | Slate's LGBTQ podcast for a live show at New York's Highline. |
| 0:30.8 | We talked about Book Smart and Coming of Age movies, |
| 0:33.8 | and we were joined by two very special guests, |
| 0:36.9 | First Lady of New York City, Shirlane McCray, and Drag Queen joined by two very special guests, First Lady of New York City |
| 0:38.1 | Shirlane McCrae and Drag Queen Supreme Miss Cracker. |
| 0:41.9 | This was recorded live in an outdoor setting, so it sounds a little different than our |
| 0:47.2 | usual episodes, but it was a really exciting show, so we hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:51.9 | And as always, you can let us know what you think by writing to us at thewaves at slate.com. |
| 0:57.5 | Here we go. |
| 0:59.1 | Click, cling. |
| 0:59.6 | Oh, hello. |
| 1:00.6 | Hello. |
| 1:01.2 | I was so busy staring at my absolute cocktail that I forgot what I was doing up here. |
| 1:05.6 | Thank you so much, everyone, for coming here today and joining us on this inaugural Slate Day, New York City. |
| 1:12.0 | We are very excited to be kicking off the day with a boozy brunch, and we have, as you know, some amazing guests. |
| 1:17.8 | So I will get right to it. |
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