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Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, March 10th, the Sex, Death, and Videotapes Edition.

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

I'm joined in the New York studios today by Noreen Malone of New York Magazine.

Hey, Hannah.

And the ghost of June is not here. Yeah, we're just, it's a two-woman show today. I know. You're as lonely as I am over there. But, but it's going to be cool because we have a series of special guests who are going to join us for each of our topics. So we'll just go straight into our topics. The first is the celebrity sex tape. The battle between Hulk Hogan and Gawker unfolding in a Florida court. For that segment, we'll be joined by Amanda Hess, who's written an excellent piece on the history of the sex tape. Second, Hillary versus Trump, we play out the scenarios with the help of Annie Lowry of New York Magazine. And finally, death made better.

We talked to Katie Roiffy, author of a new book called The Violet Hour, about six writers at the end of their life.

All right, let's get into our first topic, sex tapes. This week in St. Petersburg, Florida, former wrestling champion, Hulk Hogan, told a jury that he'd been completely humili humiliated when Gawker Media released a video showing him having sex with his former, just pay attention to all the former.

His former best friends, she's his former wife, right? She's not still his wife. You want to say his

name? Noreen, have you gotten it right? Yeah, that's his name. Bubba the Love Sponge, who I keep wanting to call Bubba the Love Shrimp, but it is very important

to know that Bubba the Love Sponge is his legal name, if not perhaps, his given name.

That's totally weird. They kept saying that in the stories because Hulk Hogan has some totally

other real name, which I had never

ever heard before this case. That sounds like a totally Bob Smithy kind of regular name,

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