The "Runaway Royals" Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina, June, Marcia, and Nichole discuss the recent drama about whether Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren that a woman can’t be president. Then, the panel adds to the chronic (but desired) over-coverage of Megxit. Finally, the panel discuss Women on Food, an anthology edited by Charlotte Druckman.
In Slate Plus: Is it sexist for a listener’s parents to say she spends too much time on her son’s hair each morning?
Recommendations
June: Michael Apted’s “Up” documentary series. The latest and final installment is 63 Up, in theaters now.
Nichole: Darynda Jones’s Charley Davidson series.
Marcia: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’ book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South.
Christina: The Showtime series Work in Progress.
This podcast was produced by Lindsey Kratochwill. Production assistance by Rachael Allen and Rosemary Belson.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:18.5 | Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, January 16th, the Runaway Royals edition. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Christina Cauterucci, a staff writer at Slate, and host of the Slate podcast Outward. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm Marcia Chalind, author of the new book, Franchise, The Golden Arches in Black America. |
| 0:34.1 | In fact, Marcia's on her book tour right now. |
| 0:36.6 | She's calling in from under a duvet in a |
| 0:39.4 | closet in a hotel room in Kansas City. So if she sounds like she's under a duvet, it's because she is. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thursday Aid Kit. And I'm June Thomas, Senior |
| 0:48.9 | Managing Producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Hi, everyone. It's so great to be back together. |
| 0:55.5 | Hi. |
| 0:56.0 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.1 | We taped our early New Year episode actually in December, so we haven't been in the same |
| 1:04.3 | space together for like a month. |
| 1:06.7 | It's crazy. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.7 | It's been a long time. |
| 1:09.0 | Before we get started with our excellent show this week, |
| 1:13.7 | we've got one order of business, June. What's up? I'm very glad to say that we have three copies |
| 1:20.8 | of Marcia's fantastic, fascinating book, franchise The Golden Arches in Black America to give away. If you would like to throw your |
| 1:29.3 | virtual hat into the virtual ring, please send an email with the word giveaway in the subject |
| 1:35.5 | line. You don't need to write anything else if you don't want to, to The Waves at Slate.com |
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