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Welcome to the Double X-Gab Fest for Thursday, May 3rd. The My Baby's Name is Brand Shift

Edition. I'm Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X. I'm here in the Washington,

D.C. studio, and I am joined in New York by Noreen Malone, New York Magazine online blogger. Hi,

Norin. Hey, Hannah. And also Brian Louder. We decided to call him the double X blog star,

Brian Lider. Hi, Brian. Hi, Anna. You know, before we get going, I realize that I have never

officially announced on the double X podcast that Jess Gross has left us. And a lot of people

wrote me about that because they found out on the culture gab fest when Jess was invited on as a guest

from New York Magazine. So it's time for me to make the official announcement that Jess Gross has, in fact, broken my heart and left for Vulture Online Magazine, where she now works with Noreen, which is really sad for me. But happy for Noreen, maybe. Happy for me. Catty Corner for me every day. Is that true? Is she catty corner? Yeah, we're really, our desks are really close. It's fun. Even if your desks are

that close, do you still I am? Because my entire relationship with Jess is I am in podcast, so I don't actually know what it's like if she's humanly in your presence. Everyone at my magazine, just I AMs instead of talking in real life. What if you're like literally next to the person? Do you still just I am with them?

Depends if you want other people to hear or not, which it probably is in every office.

What if you want to say, like, do you want with them? Depends if you want other people to hear or not,

which it probably is in every office. What if you want to say, like, do you want to go to lunch? You still do it on I.M? No, that I do in person. Right. Okay. All right. I'll learn the rules. I work by myself. So what do I know? So our three topics today, we are going to talk about a study that was mentioned in the New York Times, which suggests that some percentage of homophobes are actually secretly gay.

Our second topic is going to be celebrity baby bumps.

And more specifically, this idea also proposed in the New York Times that if you are a B-list celebrity, one of your best bets for becoming famous again, is to get pregnant and display your

pregnancy. And third, we're going to talk about the Slate Lunch Wars and what different nations

do at lunchtime and what it means about us. So let's start with this study. This was a fairly

interesting study. Its methodology was quite difficult to understand, although Brian's going to

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