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Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, May 17th, with new music, by the way.

Today's episode is What to Do with the Bad Men.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia. In the New York studios, we have the great June Thomas, a senior managing producer of Slate Podcast Network. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. So we have a big, big, big announcement. The cabal, that's the three of us and the producers and everyone else have made a decision.

Double X is going weekly.

Listeners have been asking for years, and so we are finally doing it.

We're going to add new voices and perspectives to the show.

You can tune in next week for our first new new double X. And there's

another thing, which is that the name double X is kind of outdated, somewhat for obvious reasons.

You mean the one that, you know, not all women have two X chromosomes? Yes. I feel like the name

has become increasingly shameful as the politics has passed us. And so we've all grown kind of increasingly uncomfortable with it. So we have batted around about a million ideas. But before we make a decision, we want to hear from you listeners. So if you have any great ideas of new names for the show, please tweet us at Hannah Rosen at June Thomas at

Noreen Malone or send it to our email, double X gabfest at slate.com. We would love to hear

your ideas. All right. I just have one thing. So I just want to note I did make a goof at the end

of the last episode. When Noreen recommended a boot by Iris Murdoch, I said, oh, her sister.

And Iris Murdoch was, of course, an only child is an only child.

I was particularly ashamed for having assigned her a sibling.

And yes, as everybody suggested, I was indeed thinking of two of the famous

writing sisters of that generation, AS Bayett, Antonio Bayett, and Margaret Drabble.

So thanks everyone for being very kind in pointing out my mistake.

Well, and that just makes me want to reread Possession, which I haven't read since I was about,

you know, 14.

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