80. Bob and Barbie Save the (Movie) World

We Barbenheimer-ed! And we weren’t the only ones: Sarah found a 20-minute concession line in Dallas, the loo in NYC was out of toilet paper, and the two films took in more than $500 million globally. Still, would America have cared as much had the cinematic landscape not been so scorched-earth? Would Oppenheimer have been better as a mini-series? Did a Ken doll get more screen time than all the women in Oppenheimer’s life combined? We ponder these questions, as well as:

• That time Tony Bennett wrote a hate letter to Sarah in the New York Times

• Nancy has “guy-dar”

• The Oppenheimer supporting actor who captivated Nancy

• The problem with biopics

• Which is scarier: the atom bomb or AI?

• How seriously should we take the gender politics of Barbie?

• How great is Ryan Gosling?

• Did one of us cry during Barbie? Hold on, did both of us?

• X marks the Twitter?

• The Eddie Murphy sketch that Nancy swears she’s never seen (but how?)

• The WWII book that made a bigger impact on Sarah than Oppenheimer