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Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast — 278 episodes
254. James Verini on the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War
253. Should I Marry a Murderer?
252. Weird Manifestos, Eating the Rich, and a Happy Anniversary
251. Jake Siegel on the Information State
250. Eric Swalwell's Downfall, Explained
249. The Joy of Artemis, the Mess of the Beckhams
248. Leigh Stein on Bad Boyfriends and Dangerous Men
Chalamet, MeToo and Cultural Scapegoating (Audio Fixed!)
246. Chalamet, MeToo and Cultural Scapegoating
245. The Mess of Modern Love
244. The State of Disunion
243. JFK Jr. & Carolyn Bessette: The Love Story We Cannot Quit
242. Good Vibes and Bad Bunny
The Sociopaths Among Us: The Husband Next Door
241. Sebastian Junger on Escaping Death and the Perils of Misunderstanding Young Men
240. Can Minneapolis Be a Turning Point?
239. Ellie Avishai on the Unraveling of a Free-Speech University
238. Emily Zanotti on Catholicism, Chickens, and Not Fitting Political Boxes
237. Looking Back at 2025 (Best Of)
236. Kat Rosenfield Helps Us Build the Mount Rushmore of Hotness
235. Andy Mills Makes Us Feel Better About Humanity
234. Pamela Paul Spills On Her Exit From The New York Times
The Sociopaths Among Us: Serial Killer
233. Mary Katharine Ham on Keeping Calm in the Political Storm
232. Olivia Nuzzi and the Beds We Make Ourselves
231. Girlfriend, We Have a Boyfriend Problem
230. Mike Pesca Convinces Sarah Sports Betting Scandal Matters
229. Women, Vengeance and Cancel Culture
228. Pitchforks Come for the Young Republicans
227. One (Portland/Antifa/Hollywood) Battle After Another
226. Ezra and Ta-Nehisi and a Cold Civil War
The Sociopaths Among Us #2: Candace Owens
225. Meghan Daum on Our Culture's Catastrophe Hour
224. On Faith, Lost Boys, and Erika Kirk's Forgiveness
222. Michael Tracey on Kirk, Epstein Files, and Cancel Culture 2.0
221. Our 21st-Century Religious Wars and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
220. Elizabeth Gilbert Melts Nancy's Brain, Tests Sarah's Empathy
219. Bryan Burrough on America's Vigilante Past - and Present
218. Paul Kix on How Civil Rights Heroes Taught Him to Live -- and Maybe Even Die.
217. The Outrage Opportunists
216. "You have to wake up pretty early to be worse than the Nazis"
215. Billy Joel Didn't Start the Fire (Sydney Sweeney Did)
214. The Trouble with Writing About Men
213. So You've Been Publicly Coldplayed
212. Women's Bodies! Landmines! Epstein!
211. Eli Lake on "Barista Socialists" and Why He's Proud of America
210: Dan Savage on P Diddy: Cuckolding, Freak-Offs, and What is Sex Trafficking
209. Men, Where Have You Gone? The Debate!
208. Katie Herzog on Drinking Herself Sober, Being Canceled, and "Getting Free"
206. Bromance, Interrupted
205. Brooke Siem on Medicating Unhappiness and SSRI Withdrawal
204. The Many Many Trials of Harvey Weinstein
203. On Wes Lowery and the Double-Edged Sword of "Moral Certainty"
201. Ethan Strauss On the Things Sports Fans Think But Do Not Say
200: Diddy-Dum-Dum and the Last Lover in Paris (Warning: Explicit)
199. Don't Tell Nick Flynn You Hate Poetry
198. Kat Rosenfield on Illiberalism and Dad Bods
197. Three-Year Anniversary: Change or Die
196. When killers become heroes: Luigi Mangione edition
195. Russell Brand Guilty of Russell Brand-ing
194. Liz Wolfe on the Awesomeness of Motherhood and Due Process
193. Lee Fang on the Dark Money Behind Power
192. Aaron Gwyn on the Vanishing White Male Writer
191. Donald McNeil Jr. on his Ouster from the NYT, Bad Science, and Lab Leak Theory
190. The Warp of the True Believer: Ruby Franke, Trump, Covid
189. Mike Pesca on Newsom-Kirk and What Hell Lululemon Hath Wrought
188. A Very Bad Night for American Boobs
187. Eli Lake Goes Through the Looking Glass on Israel, Trump, JFK
186. Meghan McCain on the Vibe Shift, #MeToo, and Why She'll Never Diet
185. Sex and Marriage and Elon Musk
184. White Hot Splendor: The Valentine's Day Special
182. Emilia Pérez: The Debate!
181. How We All Ended Up Alone
180. Noah Rothman on "How the Left Has Come to Excuse Away and Embrace Political Violence"
179. Do NOT Get Into Neil Gaiman’s Bathtub
178. On "Babygirl" and Female Submission
177. Meghan Daum on What We've Lost in the Los Angeles Wildfires
176. Kat Rosenfield on Lively/Baldoni and the Celebrity Proxy Wars
176. Best and Worst of Everything 2024
174. Porn and the Collective Consciousness
173. The Sinister Entertainment of a CEO's Murder
172. Raw-Dogging the Air with Matt Welch
171. Cabinet Pick Scandals and Secret Muses
170. Can Anything Make America Healthy Again?
169. Making the Trans Conversation Better with Brianna Wu and Kelly Cadigan
168. Sex Boycotts, Blue Bracelets, and Justine Bateman
167. Trumped! November surprise comes after all
166: What Scares Us: Movies, Politics ... Moldy Cheese?
165. Election Break! Trauma Vampires and Serial Killers
164. No Courage, No Convictions: Trade Publication Cancels Promo for Book with "Israel" in Title
163. In the Path of the Hurricane: Asheville, Kamala, Cruz, DEI
162. We Read Melania's Memoir So You Don't Have To
Dispatch from Ukraine: "The War of Information is even More Important than the War on the Battlefield"
160. Kat Rosenfield: "We're In a Cultural Moment that Incentivizes No Grace."
159. Michael Powell and the Permeability Between Worlds
158. Helen Lewis on Geniuses, Gurus and Some Regular Guy Named Rogan
157. Is "Casual Sex" an Oxymoron?
156. Has the Protest-Industrial Complex Collapsed?
155. Liberal Women Are Miserable, Let's Discuss
154. What Is a Woman? (Olympics Edition)
153. Ann Bauer on How School Closures Broke Her, and the Cultural Death Spiral of Being "Special"
152. Childless Cat Ladies, Couch Sex, and Our Profound White Women Midst
151. YMCA, God's Divine Plan, and the RNC
150. The Biden Apocalypse, Alice Munro's Dark Past
149. America, Fuck Yeah!
148. Make Sex Great Again
147. BRATS! West Coast Liberals + '80s Movie Stars
146. Mike and Milo Pesca on the "Boy Crisis" and Whatever Toxic Masculinity Turns Out To Be
The Slow Leave Taking: On Watching My Mother Slip Away
145. Kat Rosenfield on Women's Right to Shuck Over-Ripe Husbands AND All Those Nudes
144. GUILTY! Olivia Nuzzi on the Strange Sadness of Donald Trump
143. Magic Wade on Gun Violence, Media Gaslighting, and Rational Outrage
142. Dirty and Delicious and Not Celibate
141. Ken Ilgunas on How Podcasts Saved Our Lives
140. Andy Mills on How Curiosity Can Save Journalism -- and Us
139. Kegels for Peace: The Great Smoke 'Em Anniversary Letters Show
138. Coleman Hughes and The View of a Better Racial Future
137. Harvey Weinstein, Interrupted
136. KC Johnson: What the Hell Just Happened with Title IX?!
135. Eli Lake on Campus Protests, Israel, and Marijuana as Jewish Kryptonite (updated)
134. Michael Moynihan and the Eternal Orgasm (updated)
133. OJ Simpson and the Crash of Celebrity
132. Mike Mooney on the Free Speech Warriors We Deserve
Smokeshow Special: Raymond Chandler, Robert Altman, and "The Long Goodbye"
131. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Internet
130. The Purity Decade With Porn Slipped in the Side Door
129. Squee, Boof, and the Devil's Triangle: Kavanaugh Trial Returns to Haunt Us
128. Leigh Stein Has a Squeaky Clean Colon*
127. Bryan Burrough on '70's Political Violence, Youthful Activism, and "Days of Rage"
126. You're Just Ken
125. Tucker, Everlasting
124. Spicy Chicken Sandwich With a Side of Culture War
123. NUDES! NUDES! NUDES!
122. Knives Out! The Great Personal Essay Debate
121. Walter Kirn: "Everybody's Learned to Love the Bomb Except Me"
120. Dan Savage Gives the World's Best Valentine's Advice, Then Picks Bone With Nancy
119. The Curious #MeToo Case of Yascha Mounk
118. Jon Ronson on How We Lost Our Minds in 2020
117. Not Just a Nightmare, but an "American Nightmare"
116. Oscars So Male
115. The Great Polyamory Debate!
114. Matt Welch Doesn't Care How You Vote, As Long As You Laugh
113. Martin Luther King Jr. Had a Dream, or Was It an American Fiction?
112. A Taste for the Humiliation of Others
111. Kat Rosenfield Holds a Party on Our Faces
110. 2023 Best and Worst of Everything
Pie Talk 38: A Little Chocolate Cake
109. It's a Christmas Sex Scandal Special!
108. Sherman Alexie Wants His Scars
107. Kerry Howley on Getting Lost to Find the Story
106. Immoral Clarity
105. Just the Tip
104. Love and Rockets and Whoever the Heck Parson Brown Is
103. Second Thoughts on the Revolution
Pie Talk #33: Thanksgiving Stuffing
102. Protesting the Protesters
101. The Intimacy and the Horror: Footage of October 7
100. Hollywood Behaving Badly
99. Mike Pesca, Turbocharger of Sensible Political Commentary
98. Campus Clashes, Power Grabs, and a Scary Anti-Semitism
97. Yael Bar Tur on Israel, Moral Cowardice, and Heroism Among Strangers
96. Killers of the Golden Bachelor Moon
95. Bridget Phetasy on Slut Years, Grief-Scrolling, and Late Motherhood
94. Greg Lukianoff on the Canceling of the American Mind
Pie Talk #29: Kugel (Pies for Peace)
93. The Dangers of Missionary Zeal
92. Marisa Meltzer Takes Us Inside a Beauty Machine
91. Portnoy's Complaint
90. Kat Rosenfield Makes Us Laugh About Culture, And Also Rethink It
89. Michael Moynihan on FIRE!
88. Weird Justice: Masterson, Tarrio, Kutcher & Kunis
87. Chaya Leah Sufrin on the Epiphany of Weight Loss
86. Ethan Strauss Is Our Kind of Sports Writer
85. Sex! Marriage! Divorce!
84. Jennifer Senior Turns Pain Into Beauty
83. Thou Dost Dirty Talk Too Much
82. The Shame Game
81. "They Didn't Realize I Was a Seed" - Sinead O'Connor, 1966-2023
80. Bob and Barbie Save the (Movie) World
79. Barbie Everlasting
Sophie Scott on 10 Things You Should Know About the Brain
78. Penis Talk
LIVE! Smoke 'Em Does Dallas
77. The Love Robots Are Coming
Pie Talk #18: Zucchini Bread (with a side of Portland)
76. She Ate, She Prayed, She Pulled That Book
75. Problematic Men! (And Hannah Gadsby)
Pie Talk #16: Gravy
74. "Succession" with Caitlin Flanagan
73. The Golden Age of Masturbation
72. Jon Ronson, a Femme Fatale for Nazis, and the Lens of Wonderment
71. Nick Wallis and #MeToo's Turning Point
70. Real Danger, Political Football
69, dude. The Met Gala, RFK Jr., BuzzFeed: Who Wore It Best?
68. One Year, Baby!
67. Dance Party with the Dalai Lama
Laura McKowen and the Gift of Quiet Change
66. Meme Lords and Mean Girls, with Pinch Hitter Matt Welch!
Pie Talk #8: "Sweet Enough"
65. The Disgusting Sisters: "Succession," Paltrow, and Film's Last Stand
64. How to Fake a Hate Crime
Smokeshow Special: The Unlike-Minded Weirdos
63. The Oscars of Inclusion, Ozempic, and the American Dream
63. The Oscars of Inclusion, Ozempic, and the American Dream
Dispatch from Portland 2023: Lisa Schroeder
Pie Talk #5: Guacamole
62: Stephen Elliott and the Power of Women
Dispatch from Portland 2023: "What's Happening Here?"
61. All Cops Are (Not) Bastards
Pie Talk #3: Hoisin Chicken
60. Burn, Baby, Burn: Roald Dahl & J.K. Rowling
59. Journalism as Harm: The NYT Open Letter
58. Steve Kornacki Loves America, Hates Vegetables
57. Cannibalizing Armie Hammer, with guest Jamie Kirchick
56. Abolish the Language Police
55. Would You Tell Your Friend She's Fat?
54. All Gas and No Mercy
53. Our Oepidal Complex, Duke of Sussex edition
52. The Romance of Being a Total Fraud
51. "You're a Bimbo, a Stalker, a Seductress"
50. Even Hotter-Girl Brain Scramble 2022 (Kwanzaa Edition)
Meghan Daum and the New Counter-Culture
49. Harvey Weinstein Is Guilty, But of What?
48. Elon, Elon, Elon
47. Stars, They're Not Like Us
46. Sex Cults and Twitter Files
45. Baby, Remember Our Names
44. Thanksgiving Blue-Plate Special!
43. How To Solve a Problem Like Candace Owens?
42. Democracy Lives in Darkness!
41. Truth, Consequences, and "Shitty Media Men"
40. Radical Empathy
39. The Dahmer Dilemma
38. Men Are Very Necessary
37. On 'Blonde' and Bourdain
35. Women vs. Women! Girls Against Boys! It’s Cage Fight 2022 (with Russian Trolls)
A Ukrainian Leaves the War for New York
34. When Do-Gooders Do Bad Things
33. Go Ahead and Worry, Darling
32. The Hoax Heard Round the World
The Camera and The Audience
31. The Fashion of Feminist Crank
30. Filling the Hole: Sex, Love and What Lies Beneath
29: Tell Me More, Tell Me More edition: Life after Roe and Olivia Newton-John
28. The Things We Do For Love
Down That Dark Passage: Kathyrn Miles of "TRAILED: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders"
27. Trash-Talking the Boss (and Other Questionable Strategies)
26. Everybody’s Broken, Everyone’s Connected: It’s TV Week
25. Free Speech, Free Love
24. Let's Get Ready to Rumble
23. The Lost Art of Forgiveness
On Movie Stars and How I Got These Scars: An Audio Story for a Breaking Heart
22. Roe v. the World
21. The Destruction of Others
AUDIO: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Depp v. Heard
19. The Celebrity Delusion
Double Play: Sonmez Out at WaPo, Boudin Out as SF DA
18. Prison of Our Own Making
17. We Regret This Episode
16. Defamed
15. Robert De Niro Is Sexy Full Stop
14. Bad Wives Club
Meet the best reporter on Depp v. Heard
13. The Villains We Needed
12. From the Trenches of Depp-Heard
11: Her Food Is the Misery of Others: Female Con Artist Edition!
10: Fabulists!
The Smoking Diaries: Voice Memos of a Woman Traveling Alone
9: Hollywood's New McCarthy Era
What Man Can Do To Man: 13 True Crime Books That Get it Right (audio!)
8. What Do Women Want?
7. True Crimes of the Heart
6. Does Twitter Suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder?
5. You're the Man Now
4: The World is Not Full of Monsters! Rommelmann and Hepola Discuss
3: Entanglements! Nancy Rommelmann and Sarah Hepola Take On Hollywood
2: Cheerleaders and Buzzer Beaters: Sarah Hepola Redux!
1: Blackouts and Sexpots: Sarah Hepola