It’s 5:44am in New York City, and your narrator is so spacey/overworked she published the last “Smoking Diary” on Wednesday, thinking it was a Friday. Whoops! Fortunately, she has more thoughts on this topic, so let’s do a rare sequel/double dip.
Topics of this audio riff include: Dinner with the great Mike Pesca and the great Andy Mills, two men who got to know cancel culture a bit too well; the culture-war misery of the Kavanaugh case; crying and laughing; how podcasters Meghan Daum and The Fifth Column encouraged me to “Be brave and call bullshit”; and a fateful meeting with Malcolm Gladwell.
Plus, a surprise NYC visit with Nancy!














