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Welcome to the Double X-Gap Fest for Thursday, April 3rd, the Conscious Uncoupling Edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen in the D.C. studio.

I'm joined in New York by June Thomas, writer and editor for Slate, especially of the outward blog.

Hi, June.

Hello, Hannah. And also Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Before we begin, Noreen, so I watched, I binge watched Broad City, thanks to you. It's totally funny. I mean, it's like really, really funny. Like, their characters are, you're totally right. It has such a particular vibe to it, and I really liked it. They're amazing. Have you watched the latest episode? No, I didn't watch the latest one. I'm not quite that far. I mean, they're just like, they're not lovable or anything, but they're just like hilariously ridiculous. They love each other. They love each other, which is heartwarming. The last episode of the season, I think, is like an absolute masterpiece. I was shaking in my room laughing at it. Oh, really? Okay. Good. I'll keep going then. We got a bunch of letters into our new

email address, and I'm really pleased about that. Most of them were about the story I wrote in the

Atlantic, the overprotected kid, which we discussed on our last podcast. And they said a similar

thing. I'm going to read from Pam Allen,

who moved to a mill town in rural New England, which she describes as a mix of the barely

working and the unemployed, undocumented farm workers scraping by, young people who need cheap

rent. And she says, in good weather, the neighborhoods are filled with kids riding bikes and

skateboards with no helmets, and children play up and down

the streets with no adults watching over them. So I have to wonder if this overprotectiveness

is still a matter of class. And a similar email came in from Lily Allen who teaches in an

afterschool program in the Bronx. And she says there are many, many roving packs of unsupervised kids,

but they're not white suburban kids.

So I think we get the message here that maybe the overprotected kid is an upper or elite

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