79. Barbie Everlasting

On the docket this week:

• Nancy has crisis-of-masculinity fatigue

• Jonah Hill and what do people expect from posting private encounters

• Lost Girls, the Gilgo Beach serial killer, (not) understanding sadism

• The unlikely origin story of Barbie

• Is Barbie “everything the feminist movement was trying to escape from,” as Gloria Steinem said, or is she actually a feminist success story?

• The question of Ken’s bulge

• Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach take on Barbie, because why not?

• George Michael, rats, and a new book Nancy cannot tear herself away from

• Don’t sleep on a new Smoke ‘Em interview series, which launched on Wednesday with Sophie Scott, professor of cognitive neuroscience and author of the new book, The Brain: 10 Things You Should Know, which in addition to being brilliant, is a sexy little size that fits in your purse

• Plus, since “Choose Your Own Adventure” comes up several times in this episode, Nancy thought she’d show you hers: