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Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, July 26, the We Wish we were talking about Kristen Stewart edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X. I'm in the DC studio, joined in New York by Allison Benedict, another editor at Double X. Hi, Allison. Hi, guys. And also Noreen Malone, who is now of the New Republic. So no more New York magazine. Hi, Noreen. Our three subjects today are the shooting in the Aurora Theater and how the men protected the women, the young woman who outed her rapists by naming them on Twitter and the ladies in the Olympics, and particularly the women boxers.

And while I know we would like to talk about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, because I spent the last half hour I should have been preparing for this podcast looking at those pictures of her kissing.

What's his name?

The pictures they were outraged by?

Sorry, audience.

You now get to listen to our, you know, extraneous patter.

I'm outraged that they caught them kissing in the car and my fellow podcasters who are just crude and have no morals at all and jaded or like who cares whatever well it's not new

that people are following around movie stars having affairs i'm reading she also didn't have to be

cheating she did i mean sure but like i'm reading a book about elizabeth taylor and richard

burton's affairs and marriages. I love that book.

Yeah, it's so fun. That's a good book, yeah.

But that happened to her.

Yeah. The beginning of their affair in Italy while they were filming Cleopatra was like the biggest scandal ever. And they were both married to other people at the time. So it's nothing new. That's what celebrity magazines are. Right. I guess, you know, the only person whose soul you fear for is the photographer.

I'm so glad David Samuels once did that story about the paparazzi and the Atlantic, which I thought was a fantastic story, but just like the race and the competition between the paparazzi, like what's driving them? Because that's a lot of dead hours to catch the moment that they decide. I mean, maybe they've been kissing each other a lot, but that's a lot of lost hours for that photograph, which will now make the guy famous. But that's also like a year salary. Yeah. Huge payday for that guy. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, enough about those guys. That's all we have to say. Wait, can we just really quickly talk about her public apology, though? Did you guys read it? What the hell? Who makes a public apology for cheating on your boyfriend? It's so weird. Do you think she wrote it herself?

Do you remember exactly what she said? Did you guys read it? What the hell? Who makes a public apology for cheating on your boyfriend?

Do you think she wrote it herself?

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