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Hello and welcome to The Waves for Thursday, August 2nd.

I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate.

And joining me from New York for the very first time on the podcast

is Slate editorial assistant Rachel Hampton. Rachel, welcome to the podcast. Hi, happy to be here.

And returning for her second time on the show is Brianna Joy Gray, who is a senior politics editor

at The Intercept, contributing editor at Current Affairs, and co-host of the podcast Swoity, or Someone's Wrong on the Internet.

She's a very busy woman, and we're happy to have her this morning. Welcome back, Brianna.

Thank you so much.

So in today's episode, we're going to start by talking about Sorry to Bother You, a Boots Riley film featuring telemarketing,

Capitalist Exploitation, and some really cool earrings. Then we're going to discuss motherhood

in the age of fear when bystanders call the cops on moms who leave their kids in the car

while they run into the store. And finally, we'll discuss how people, particularly black women, are grappling with the murder of Nea Wilson, an 18-year-old black girl who was recently killed in an Oakland Public Transit Station.

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

we'll decide is it sexist to make fun of two women on a ridiculous, viral wedding email

thread.

If you're not a Slate Plus member yet, you can start your free two-week trial by visiting

slate.com slash the waves plus.

All right.

Let's get into our first topic.

Sorry to bother you.

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