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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, January 31st, the subpoena me edition.

I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate podcast Outward.

And here with me today in Slate's DC studio is Georgetown University History Professor Marcia Chatlin.

Hey, Marsha.

Hi.

And in New York, where it's very, very cold, we have Kristen Mineser, who co-hosts the podcast by the book. Hey, Kristen.

Hey, guys. We have a lot of good topics today. We're going to start off with you, the Lifetime

series about a murderous stalker that has become a sleeper hit on Netflix. Then we'll talk

about Nancy Pelosi and the feminist implications of the government

shut down. And finally, we will discuss the impact the Me Too movement is having on women's

careers and how having a close network of female friends can help women advance in their fields.

Then for our Slate Plus segment, we have a question from a listener who was spurred to write in after last week's episode.

It was a really good question.

We're going to decide whether it's sexist to call women moms instead of mothers.

If you're not a Slate Plus member yet and you would like to know whether that is sexist, you can start your free two-week trial by visiting slate.com slash the waves plus.

Before we get started, I want to give a mega shout out to all the listeners who've been sending

us their fantastic ideas for people in Australia who we should interview at our live show

at the Sydney Opera House in March. We, I think the second the episode dropped last week, you know, all the folks in Australia

were probably just finishing their workday or something.

And we got a flood of ideas of great Australian women who we should interview.

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