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Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, March 24th, the Shi E. Uh-oh edition.

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

And in New York, we have June Thomas, the managing producer of Slates. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. So I want to say, before we get started, that I idly chatted about Mad Max last time we had a show. And whoof, boom, how How many emails and Facebook mails did I get about my complete ignorance?

There were so many, I can't count them.

There are lots of Mad Max fans out there.

So I'm just going to read one from Keith Hooker, who wrote me on Facebook.

He says, you should argue that Furiosa is the movie's hero, because while Max enters the movie as a bitter loner and exits as a slightly less bitter loner, is Furiosa who puts aside her dream of paradise and reluctantly fights to take her place as the new enlightened ruler of the wasteland.

So I thought that was the most convincing argument I heard, although believe me, people wrote me tomes and thank you to all of you. I now have great appreciation for bad max. And I now am resolved to watch it because all of that was totally Greek to me, but the emails made me think it was a movie I'd like. Yeah, and there's more going on than you see. And I actually have greater appreciation after reading the whole, like reading people's passion

about the movie.

So thank you all.

Okay.

So our topics today.

First, we're going to talk about Neil Gorsuch, Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court.

Second, thinks the supposedly feminist forward-thinking company has a sexual harassment claim against it.

And third, do women like to compete? New research says yes, but under limited circumstances.

We will discuss. So let's get going with our first topic. Neil Gorsuch, Trump's nominee for the

Supreme Court, has had his confirmation hearings this week. He was smooth. He really did it. You know, he was impressive, I would say. And a lot of issues came up that concern us here at double X, what he feels about women in employment, his jurisprudence involving religious groups, and abortion, of course. So to help us

parse through this, we have Mark Joseph Stern, legal writer for Slate. Hi, Mark. Hi, thanks for having me on.

Thank you for coming. Absolutely. So have you been glued to the hearings? Is that what you've been

doing this week? Regrettably, I have been. I have been sitting at home because our fearless correspondent,

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