The From Mildred to Crystal Edition. I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's

and Isabella. In the New York studios today we have June Thomas, the managing

producer of Slate Podcast. Hi June. Hey Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York magazine. Hi

Noreen. Hi, Hannah. Before we get started, I just want to say

listeners, you were fabulous on the best friends topic. A special thanks to

cat Buckley who sent us pictures of her

bestie. They've been bestie since they were 10 years old and they were so

charming and cute. Weren't you guys just charmed by that? Like didn't it make you wish

you had a best friend forever?

Like a real BFF, not just like BFF, but a real one.

It's so, it's so awesome.

It was very awesome, but we also did get letters from people who related to me and were like, yeah, it's fine, it's fine, to not have one.

Like it's great if you have one, but it's all cool. It's all good.

Yeah, well friendship relationships are welcome on the double ex- of Hugh Hefner, the Prince of the Playboy Mansion, hotly debated this week, we discuss.

Then we'll talk about the movie The Battle of the Sexes, about the epic gender battle of the 70s

between tennis player Billy Jean King and chauvinist tennis player Bobby Riggs. of the we'll talk about Gloria Allred, the legal defender of assault victims everywhere.

Is she a champion of women or does she lock us into a very particular kind of victimhood?

Then in our slate plus segment we will discuss, You want to say what we're going to discuss

Maureen? We're going to discuss whether it's sexist for women to date older

men and not younger men. Right?

Contemporaries.

Yes.

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