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Hello and welcome to The Waves for Thursday, February 14th, the Minnesota Nice Edition.

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

And today's episode of The Waves is a very special episode of The Waves.

We have all three hosts in one room.

It's a party in here.

So here with me in our New York studio is Slate editorial assistant, Rachel Hampton.

Hey, Rachel.

Hi, Christina.

Good to have you back. And joining us for the first time on the podcast is Ashley Edwards, Senior News and Politics Editor at Refinery

29. Welcome, Ashley. Thank you for having me. So happy to have you. Our topics for the week, we are

starting off with Ted Bundy, the 1970s serial killer, who is the subject of two very

slick cultural products this year.

Then we'll talk about Senator Amy Klobuchar, the latest Democrat to enter the 2020 presidential

race, and the subject of a growing list of allegations that she is a terrifying, toxic boss who mistreats her staff.

And finally, we'll discuss efforts by Uber, Marriott, and civilians to spot and stop human

trafficking in the wild and whether this kind of community surveillance is helpful or harmful.

For our Slate Plus segment today, we have another fantastic listener question.

Y'all have been killing it lately.

This one is about plumbing.

Is modern plumbing sexist because we still can't flush tampons down the toilet?

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