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Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, February 8th, the Glowy Edition.

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

In the New York studios, we have June Thomas, managing producer of Slave Podcast. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. So before we get going, I have three things to tell you, and I'll tell them to you quickly. One is that we're recording in a slightly different way. Because my kid is sick, so I'm recording from home and because I have, you know,

DIY radio skills, I'm recording myself. So it might sound a little bit different, but we'll go

back to the regular way next time. Second, we need a new intern. Our awesome and amazing

Daniel Schrader, it's time to let him loose and fly free in his life and do bigger and wonderful things.

But Daniel, can you tell us what is required of a double X intern? Jump in for a minute.

Yeah, sure thing. So the normal things are you collect topics for the week for them to discuss and then you do research on the topics that

they've chosen so that you can send around information for them to be prepared for the show

and then you attend recordings and help the producer veralyn with whatever she needs and it's a

really great opportunity because you learn how to produce you learn how to research it's just very, it's just a great position. And you get

to work for four amazing women that I couldn't have been happier to spend my time with.

Oh, thank you. Also, we should say you should be in New York so you can attend the recordings

in New York and help everyone out putting the show together. We welcome

applicants of all backgrounds. So please apply double X gap fest at slate.com and put intern in the

subject line. Okay, our final announcement. We were schooled by our Australian and New Zealand

listeners so hard these last couple of weeks. I think for the word regressive, that was the problem, calling them regressive in gender relations. And it was basically like, like subject line, Donald Trump. Like when your president is not Donald Trump, you can talk to me about regressive. That was the start of the conversation. And then it devolved from there. So we're sorry. We were, you know, we don't know what we're talking about. On the other hand, it was amazing to learn how many people are listening to us in the Antipodes. I was just going to say that. Who knew? We even heard from a couple of New Zealand sheep. Yeah, don't give up on us, though. We love you. It is really,

really cool to hear from you. So don't give up. We'll do better next time. Okay, let's get going.

Our topics today, first, the sexual abuse scandal in gymnastics that unfolded in Michigan over the last

month. Second, we're going to talk about skin care, our new religion. And third, Jordan Peterson, our new

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