Can I ask a provocative question?

No, please.

How do you define work wife, work husband, work spouse?

And he was like, are you pregnant?

Which my own husband hadn't figured out yet.

Hey everyone, it's Audie, and I've got another special episode of The Assignment for you.

I was at the podcast festival known as On Air Fest.

That was in Brooklyn just last week.

And for this, I knew I wanted to bring along a friend because we're going to talk about

work spouses.

And mine for a very long time was Ari Shapiro of NPR.

So we talk about our careers, media, of course, what makes for a good work spouse.

It was a fun conversation, so stick with us.

Adi Cornish and Ari Shapiro. Come on out. Come on out.

Okay, so here's the deal. Back in January, I asked Ari to come on the assignment because,

honestly, January was a lot, y'all. I needed somebody that I could

have a conversation with about the stories I was missing, right? These like cultural stories

that I wanted to talk about and we called it engagement party. And we had a reference point

because for all the years that Audie and I were all things

considered hosts together, you heard us on the radio being very serious. And during the eight

minute segment about Syria when our mics are off, we would cackle about the latest thing that we

had found on Reddit or on Instagram or whatever was bubbling up in the culture.

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