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79. Barbie Everlasting
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79. Barbie Everlasting

How one doll became a battering ram for questions about how a woman should be, and the Gilgo Beach serial killer, finally found? Plus: Jonah Hill text messages and George Michael's voice
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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:

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