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Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, May 31st, the Manic Pixie Murderer Edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPRs and Visibilia. And in the New York

studios, we have June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Hi, June.

Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. So, geez,

Roseanne and her racism, what the hell? That was an immediate fast cancellation of her show. Wow. Yeah, I mean, the sad thing is I was not surprised by the racism. I was surprised by the swiftness and happy about the swiftness of the cancellation. She's been sort of dog whistling for months and months and months and it was amazing.

Like this is a profit-making show and the head of ABC, who by the way, I believe, is the first black head of a network.

First black woman, yeah.

Yeah.

Was like, nope, not going to put out with it, which is pretty great.

I mean, I was very happy with the swift action, but I have to say, like, nope, not going to put up with it, which is pretty great. I mean, I was very happy with the swift action, but I have to say, like, what did you think?

Like, did you, had you notice that she'd tweeted before?

Because before the show started, she tweeted some heinous, heinous things, conspiracy theories, transphobic things.

And was the fact that she got a show suddenly going to transform thing.

One of my friends who was at the TCA executive session panel, which is where the heads of the

network, you know, take questions and give a little presentation, noted that Channing Dunjee

had said in answer to her question that she wasn't at all worried about Roseanne's Twitter feed

when they were announcing Roseanne

and you know what? She should have been.

This was, you know, talk about something that you could have predicted very easily.

Could have predicted this very easily, but still good for ABC.

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