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Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, February 9th, the free Melania edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia, and in the New York studios, we have June Thomas, editor of Outward, Slate's LGBTQ blog. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen.

Hi, Hanna.

Hannah. Hanna, didn't you see a bobcat in D.C.?

I did.

I actually saw the bobcat, although, you know, can I be sure I saw the bobcat?

It was late at night.

And because I grew up in Queens, I know all about bobcats, you know? Just kidding. There are no bobcats. They're just, but I do know what bobcats look like because I've been to Vermont a lot. And it just, I live right by the zoo, and it ran right by me. It was really exciting. And then it was so sad because it was

like Shawshank Redemption. It just went right back to the zoo. It was so sad. I felt really sad for it. No, I haven't lived in D.C. for quite some time, but is there any chance it was just a really, really, really, really large rat? No. There's a chance it was a really, really, really large cat, but there are lots of cats who chillax. I sit on my front porch at night and there's the woods. And so I know from the cats in the neighborhood and the dogs. Like I just know them personally. Like, oh, that's the cat that lives there. And that's the cat that lives there. So I kind of know how they, you know, what their territory is and where they move. How they lope. How they lope,

exactly. And this was just a completely different size and lope than the usual. So free the bobcat.

And I actually was like, do I turn it into the zoo or not? Because free the bobcat. I really

thought about that. And then I thought about that and fell sleep. So, alas, it found its own prison. Okay. Well, we're not talking about

Bobcats today. But we might be talking about people who are choosing or not choosing to live

in a gilded cage. Nice. Good turn. Nice. Nice. Nice transition. So, Melania Trump,

our first segment, should we leave her alone?

Should we stop talking about her?

Kelly Ann Conway, the most slippery fleck in history.

We discuss her and her role in the Trump administration.

And a new study called When Children Rule, which argues that kids are replacing dads as the rulers of the House.

Why did that study piss us off so much? Not us personally. People, people in the culture. And then for our Slate Plus segment, is it sexist? June, you want to say what we're talking about today? The new Barbie commercials that show dads playing with Barbies. Are they sexist or anti-sexist? We're going to make that call. That was good. That was smooth. We're going to make that call. I should have been on TV, like really tiny market, circa in 1975. That was really my time. No, I think now is your time because people like foreign voices and so you could be the background. I think when you're just sick of doing news, that's what you should do.

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