Double X Gabfest: The Deposed Scumbags Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2014
⏱️ 48 minutes
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June Thomas, Noreen Malone and Jessica Winter discuss notorious scumbags Dov Charney and Terry Richardson, Lana Del Rey's new album, and talk to Doree Shafrir about her her BuzzFeed piece “I Was Sure Freezing My Eggs Would Solve Everything.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, June 26th, the deposed scumbags edition. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm June Thomas, editor of Outwood Slate's LGBTQ section. |
| 0:16.3 | Hannah Rosen is becoming just a faint memory, but she will be back on the podcast in late July. But until then, the Double X-Gab Fest will be a New York affair. I'm here in our Swank West Village studio with Slate Senior Editor Jessica Winter. Hi, Jessica. Hello, June. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hello, Noreen. Hi. Noreen has been such a millennial, she's looking at her phone right now. I'm pulling up my notes. Sure, sure. What's this pen and paper |
| 0:43.0 | you have before we get started? I just want to remind listeners about our email address |
| 0:48.9 | where you can send comments, questions and expressions of appreciation and outrage. That address is double Xgabfest at slate.com. |
| 0:56.5 | I don't have much to share from you from my last rummaging through the mailbag |
| 1:00.6 | because for the most part it was a symphony of praise, |
| 1:04.1 | which if I repeated it would just make us sound big-headed. |
| 1:07.4 | So in future, please tell us how you really feel, won't you? And if you ever need more |
| 1:14.0 | information about the stories that we discuss on the podcast as well as our recommendations, you can find |
| 1:18.6 | more information on our show page slate.com slash x-X. Thanks again to everyone who wrote in. Please |
| 1:26.0 | do let us know what you think of the show at double X-Gabfest at Slate.com. |
| 1:30.6 | Okay, our three topics for today are the scusball in winter, that is the apparent descent of Dov Charnie and Terry Richardson. |
| 1:37.8 | Also, Lana Del Rey, her new record and her recent cry for help. |
| 1:41.3 | And finally, we'll talk with BuzzFeed executive editor, Dorese Chafferer, |
| 1:45.5 | about her recent story about how she almost froze her eggs. |
| 1:50.6 | Our first topic. |
| 1:52.0 | Dov Charny, the founder of leggings and T-shirt Emporium American Apparel, |
| 1:56.0 | was fired as CEO last week in the words of the New York Times |
| 1:59.9 | because an internal investigation |
| 2:02.2 | found that he had misused company money and had allowed an employee to post naked photographs |
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