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Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, February 25th, the Free Keshah edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia. I'm joined in the New York studios by Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. And today with us, we have Aisha Harris, culture writer at Slate. Hi, Aisha. Hello. So where is June? Is she in Japan? Like, where did she go? I think she's not in Japan yet. June has a very complicated month, right? She's going to Japan, but she's also

very involved with some other work projects. June is, June is missing. If you guys know where

June is, please tell us. Yeah, let's, I'm going to pretend that June is on an international

hunt for the best pencil. Like, she's going from country to country to see who makes the best pencil. It's actually believable. I would watch that TV show, too. Yeah, that was like a joke on girls. Hoshoshana went to Japan and was like, I got the best, now I use a totally different pen. You haven't referenced girls in a while, H Hannah, and I'm happy to see it coming back.

No, come on. I haven't referenced it because it hasn't been on television. It's back on television, so I watched it last night, and there was a pencil joke. There was all. I liked that episode. It was a good episode. What season is it on now? I stopped watching. Five, right? It's a final season. Huh.

Okay.

Well, it was sweet.

It was a wedding episode.

You always have to open with a wedding episode.

And I'm not talking about it. Five, right? Okay. It's a final season. Huh. Okay. Well, it was sweet.

It was a wedding episode. You always have to open with a wedding episode. And I'm not talking about it because, like, I don't care. Okay. Definitely not. Definitely not. Definitely don't care. Okay. So our topics today, all the single ladies, a new book by Rebecca Traister and a cover in New York Magazine argues for the single 80s as a new

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