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Welcome to the waves for Thursday, July 12th.

The Privacy is Dead Edition.

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

I'm joined in the New York studios by June Thomas, senior managing producer of Slate Podcast Network. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Anna. By the way, listeners, in case it sounds different, I'm recording myself from a tiny booth. A shout out to Headroom Studio and Kyle Pooley in Philadelphia. It should sound great, but just letting you know that we're

just recording in a slightly different way today in case it sounds funky. June, Noreen, we haven't

been together in a while. I'm so happy to talk to you guys. Y'all have been taking vacations

while I'm sitting in the office here. That's nice to be back. Anyway, listeners, we are having a live show July 17th in D.C. at the Hamilton Theater. There are still some tickets left. You can buy them at slate.com slash live. We would love, love, love to see you there. So please show up. We have special musical guests, special Brainiac guests. It's going to be a great show. All right, let's jump into our topics.

First, Trump announces his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. We speculate on the future of abortion rights with special gasolinda Greenhouse. Second is falling birth rates. It's considered a

demographic catastrophe, and it's often framed as women's fault. Or as a result of women's

decisions, we discuss.

And finally, two strangers on a plane fall in love, kind of flirt, at least.

Someone live tweets that interaction and the internet gets pissed.

We talk about hashtag plane bay.

And then in our special summer Slate Plus segment, we will discuss.

In our Slate Plus segment, we will be asking, is it sexist to have kind of different standards for judging women being kind of stripped down to their bikinis when they're not pool side than the way we judge men?

Is that a sexist reaction if If you want to hear our discussion

about that, join Slate Plus. You can find out more information about that by going to slate.com

slash the waves plus. All right. Let's talk about falling birth rates. The U.S. is joining the list of

industrialized countries with falling birth rates. Our birth rateS. is joining the list of industrialized countries with falling birth

rates. Our birth rate hit a historic low in 2017. That just means fewer women having babies,

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