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Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, May 4th, the Kotex and my Bugatti edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia, and I'm joined to 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, Noreen, I have to thank you for how I spend this week, which was just watching the girlfriend experience. And do you feel like you've had a girlfriend? How do you feel about it? No, oh my God. She would be the worst girlfriend ever. But I don't think I've inhaled a show in a really long time like that. And I can't

exactly say why I like it. I haven't really, I haven't really digested it yet.

It's like a mood more than anything. Exactly. Exactly. I had a, I said on the culture

Govist a couple of weeks ago that it evokes a feeling in me in a way that rarely happens on

television. The last time I can remember is the bridge that just kind of gave me, like there was almost like a sensation of sympathy with it.

Like we were on the same wavelength or something.

And even though I don't know what I don't have anything in common with pretty much anybody on that show.

Are you a sex worker?

I might just do an occasional girlfriend experience.

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