The “Rainbow Gel Pen” Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Waves, Hanna and June are joined by Kristen Meinzer, co-host of the By the Book podcast to discuss Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, the Hulu origina Pen15 and the women in Trump’s orbit with author of “Golden Handcuffs” Nina Burleigh.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.1 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to the waves for Thursday, March 7th, the Rainbow Gel Pen Edition. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Hannah Rosen, host of NPR's Invisibilia. |
| 0:18.6 | In the New York studios, we have June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network. |
| 0:22.6 | Hi, June. |
| 0:23.1 | Hey, Hannah. |
| 0:24.6 | And because Noreen is already in Australia, practicing her vocals at the Sydney Opera House, |
| 0:31.3 | we have with us today, Kristen Mineser, co-host of By the Book, podcast about, I always want to call it a wild social experiment because I know that's in your descriptor and that's the part I feel like most captures it. |
| 0:45.3 | Kristen, is that right? |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, but, you know, I often refer to it as an intersectional, radical feminist show disguised as a reality show comedy podcast that most people think is a self-help show. |
| 0:58.4 | Wow. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah, that. |
| 1:00.1 | That was exactly what I was going to say. |
| 1:02.6 | They did. |
| 1:03.9 | If you guys, you should check out the recent episode about astrology listeners, which apparently, tells me was very controversial because what? |
| 1:13.8 | You either didn't take it seriously or took astrology too seriously, one or the other? |
| 1:17.8 | People got pissed about both of those. |
| 1:19.2 | Yeah. People who really, really, really take astrology seriously felt that we didn't give it all of the credence it deserved. |
| 1:25.6 | And then a lot of the people who question astrology |
| 1:27.7 | out there thought that we gave it too much legitimacy. In other words, you cannot win. |
| 1:33.3 | No, no. But at least everyone was feeling something. Exactly. It's good to make people feel, |
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