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Welcome to The Waves, the podcast formerly known as Double X for Thursday, June 14th,

the seduction of Sex in the City.

I'm Noreen Malone of New York Magazine, and I'm joined in the New York studios by June Thomas, the senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts. Hi, June.

Hey, Noreen. We are a little lonely today. Anna Holmes was going to host with us. She

unfortunately was felt by illness at the very last minute. So June and I are going to wing it with some help from Verilin Williams, our producer, who is going to come by for one of our segments and for recommendations. But June, we are just going to be doing a lot of quality one-on-one time. One-on-one. It's going to be like just really personal conversation that thousands, maybe even millions of people are going to be listening in on.

Millions. I think this is going to be our breakthrough moment. Sorry, Hannah. Hanna is out this week, regularly scheduled out.

She's having a beautiful vacation in that country known as Europe.

Lovely. Lovely. So, June, this is my first time recording on the show now known as The Waves.

Me too.

It feels a little weird.

Yeah.

Feels good.

I'm so into the new name, but at the same time, I keep starting sentences.

Well, we'll be recording double X.

I mean, the waves.

So I'm just, I'm almost kind of taking bets with myself about when I'll stop like defaulting unthinkingly to double X-Gab Fest.

Yeah. I'm so much happier with the waves. You like it too, right? I like it too. So I actually, so there are a lot of reasons we called it the waves. Yes. You know if you listened last week, it's because of the waves of feminism.

It's because of radio waves. It's because of the waves that we are going to make on this June and Noreen only podcast. A lot of waves. There's also a Virginia Wolf book called The Waves, which I've never read. I ordered on Amazon. I'm going to update listeners when I get to it in my big stack of books later this summer.

I also about... ways, which I've never read. I ordered it on Amazon. I'm going to update listeners when I get to it

in my big stack of books later this summer. I also bought it last week. I also have never read it.

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