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Welcome to the waves for Thursday, August 16th, the Omarosa-esque edition.

I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate, and here with me in Slate's D.C. studio is Latifah Liles, a vice president at the National Network to End Domestic Violence and the former director of the Women's Bureau at the Labor Department under Barack Obama. How's it going, Latifah? It's going well. Thank you.

And joining us from New York, over the airwwaves is the phenomenal producer of this very podcast, Varyl Williams. Hi, Varyl. Hi, Christina. Hi, Latifah. How you doing? Good. It's good to have you back. You were gone for a couple of weeks. What were you up to? I was. I went to on vacation. I went to Bermuda. Good for you.

Then I went to Detroit for the National Association of Black Journalist Convention, which,

as listeners were here in a second, one of the people were talking about attended last year and kind of had a big headline coming out of the convention.

So, you know, she just keeps coming up for me around this time every year.

It's about me, guys. It certainly is. That brings us to our topics for today. So on today's

episode, we're going to start by talking about the woman who continues to pop up in Verilin's life,

former White House employee and apprentice star

Omarosa Managall Newman, who is currently flogging her new Trump tell-all book with the claim

that she heard tapes of the president saying the N-word, among other weird things that she claims he

did. Then we're going to review the Miseducation of Cameron Post, a new film about a teenage girl who gets sent to Christian Gay conversion therapy after she gets caught having sex with a girl.

And finally, we will discuss a major first for the NFL male cheerleaders.

There are three of them, and they're going to be

cheering and dancing at football games this fall, coming to a television set near you.

Also today in our Slate Plus segment where we take a topic and rate it from 1 to 10 on how sexist

it is, we will decide, is it sexist, to challenge a

random woman to a debate with the promise of money the way Ben Shapiro did to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

If you're not yet a Slate Plus member, and you would like to hear how sexist that is,

you can start your free two-week trial by visiting slate.com slash the waves plus.

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