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Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, July 28th.

The Hillary is Likeable Enough Edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia.

I'm joined in the New York

studios by June Thomas, editor of Outward Slate's LGBTQ blog. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. So you guys have been watching the conventions every night, right? Yeah, I miss last night. Yeah, I missed last night, too. But a lot of nights. I feel like everybody skipped the Bill Clinton night.

I did too, and then I read about it and wished I had watched it, but I have been, you know, binging on convention, I have to say. What's your favorite part? Ooh, what is my favorite part? I liked Michelle's Obama's speech. No, that was amazing. I mean, it was ridiculous. Like, she's just ridiculous. I mean, she's just ridiculously like perfect. It's ridiculous. Like the I woke up this way situation.

Well, and her speech writer. Yeah. I woke up like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. And she, you know, sometimes she's a bit stagious. No, but it wasn't the words. It was just like the thing. Like if you read the text of the Michelle Obama speech, it doesn't deliver the same way as watching her give the speech. I mean, it was a good speech, but she's really, she is a really good speaker. She sometimes gets a real stager with those pauses, and she didn't really do that this time.

Yeah. It's like that effortless confidence, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, okay, so that brings us to our topics.

We're two-thirds politics today. First is the Trump children. Do they redeem him or they just as bad as he is?

Second is ghostbusters, the critical response, is it sexist or just

really sexist or are we missing something? And then finally a brief history of Hillary

hatred. Why has it lasted so long? Will it ever go away? And June, tell us about the Slate

Plus segment. Yes, in our Slate Plus segment today, we'll discuss whether Pokemon Go is sexist.

If you're not yet a member of Slate Plus, you can start your free two-week trial by visiting Slate.com slash XX plus.

That does sound porny.

I'm sorry.

I mean, I don't.

100%.

So it's like, geez. When you say double X, it sounds okay. But when you say X, X plus, it doesn't sound so okay. But that's all right. That's what we are. Very specific. All right. Okay. Let's move from that to the Trump kids.

Yvanka, Tiffany, Eric and Donald, but mostly Ivanka.

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