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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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