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Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, June 20th.

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

Hi, I'm Nicole Perkins, writer and co-host of Thirst Aid Kit.

I'm Marcia Chathlin, a professor of history at Georgetown University.

So good to be back, you guys.

I was bummed to miss the live show, Nicole, but I hear it went really well.

Yeah, it was a great time.

But you were off being busy and

happy and in love. So I think you got, you know, a pretty good end of the bargain there. I did. Yeah,

I was on my honeymoon in Peatown, which then I came back to immediately go into D.C. Pride. So it was

like just a big, the world's gayest week that I had.

It was incredible.

So much fun.

I'm still finding bits of like glitter and confetti in all of the stuff that I had packed for that weekend.

But here we are back in the real world, about to talk about some really great topics.

Today we're going to start with the U.S. women's national soccer team.

They're dominating the World Cup.

But they've come under some fire for celebrating too hard after their first match.

They beat Thailand's national team 13-0, and they were ecstatically celebrating on the field.

Some people thought that they were being bad sports.

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