Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast

Listen now (53 min) | How the Internet became a bar-room bitch session, what to do when a friend decides to be an enemy, the problem with People Pleasing, and what are the lyrics to that "Let It Go" song again.Open in app or onlineMar 24Smoking Diaries #12: Are You a Garbage Person.How the Internet

Listen now (114 min) | The curious case of Jussie Smollett shows how ambition can override judgment.Also: Stanford's DEI mess, debating "The Jinx" (7 years late), the blue-collar roots of journalism, and PornHub's fall Open in app or onlineMar 2364.How to Fake a Hate CrimeThe curious case of Jussie

Listen now (95 min) | Who's on our "celebrity sex list".What are the Brits talking about.Is journalism a profession of hucksters.Plus: Keanu Reeves, the argument against Matt Taibbi, and more as we read Listener Letters Open in app or onlineMar 20Smokeshow Special: The Unlike-Minded WeirdosWho's on

Listen now (14 min) | Peter Luger, Marlon Brando, a bit of old New York, and why cast iron is your best friend Open in app or onlineMar 19Pie Talk #6: SteakPeter Luger, Marlon Brando, a bit of old New York, and why cast iron is your best friendThis episode is for paid subscribersSmoke 'Em If You Got

Listen now (49 min) | Your narrator is back in Galveston, where an early-morning stroll gave her the creepies and prompts a tale about the illusions of love, men who become ghosts, and things that go bump in the night Open in app or onlineMar 17Smoking Diaries #11: Haunted RomanceYour narrator is ba

Listen now (48 min) | Hollywood's biggest night is an argument for cultural appropriation.Plus former Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin in legal trouble, and Matt Taibbi gets scorn (and love) for uncovering inconvenient truths Open in app or onlineMar 1663.The Oscars of Inclusion, Ozempic, and the America

Listen now (145 min) | Hollywood's biggest night is an argument for cultural appropriation.Plus former Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin in legal trouble, and Matt Taibbi gets scorn (and love) for uncovering inconvenient truths Open in app or onlineMar 1463.The Oscars of Inclusion, Ozempic, and the Americ

Listen now (44 min) | "Vandalism is happening through the city.the Mother's Bistro owner asked in 2022, after her window was broken for the 3rd time."It's like an episode of 'Meth-Fentanyl TV' here." Open in app or onlineMar 13Dispatch from Portland 2023: Lisa Schroeder"Vandalism is happening throug

Listen now (21 min) | On rock drummers, towering avocado trees, getting songs dedicated to you at the Greek, and why, if you're reading this, you should thank Los Angeles Open in app or onlineMar 12Pie Talk #4: GuacamoleOn rock drummers, towering avocado trees, getting songs dedicated to you at the

Listen now (50 min) | Your narrator slow-dances through her own troubled past at a literary festival hosted by her alma mater.Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again, but maybe he didn't need the money.Open in app or onlineMar 10Smoking Diaries #10: Back to High SchoolYour narrator slow-dances thr

Listen now (109 min) | It's International Women's Day.We celebrate with flowers, a chat with the writer who just settled his "Shitty Media Men" lawsuit (for six figures).Plus: Chris Rock, Toronto Raptors, and Nancy's AI.Open in app or onlineMar 862: Stephen Elliott and the Power of WomenIt's Interna

Listen now (86 min) | Two photographers covering Portland, from the summer of rage 2020 to the current explosion of homelessness and drug addiction, are not optimistic about the city's recovery.But are there green shoots.Open in app or onlineMar 6Dispatch from Portland 2023: "What's Happening Here."

Open in app or onlineSmoke 'Em First Sunday Zoom March 5 at 8pmEST As in, in 30 minutes.Smoke 'Em If You Got 'EmMar 6PreviewSaveSarahs been in crazy conference calls all day, Nancy (*cough cough*) has been sleeping and sweating (new band name.), but we will Zooming be with all our paid subscribers i

Listen now (17 min) | Making the gravy, Paloma Media bar art, bears in the woods Open in app or onlineMar 5Pie Talk #4: Red SauceMaking the gravy, Paloma Media bar art, bears in the woodsThis episode is for paid subscribersSmoke 'Em If You Got 'EmGood morning from Chinatown NYC.Yesterday at this tim

Listen now (41 min) | Your narrator travels to Gulf Shores, Alabama, and muses on the Deep South, her teenage crush on Martin Luther King Jr., the best thing she ever heard in AA, and why hotel coffeemakers suck so hard Open in app or onlineMar 3Smoking Diaries #9: The Key to the UniverseYour narrat

Listen now (95 min) | An extraordinary NYT story reveals the private pain and quiet moral negotiation of cops in Louisville.Plus: Alec Baldwin's tragic saga, Portland in chaos, "MILF Manor" vs."Moderate MILF," and more.Open in app or onlineMar 261.All Cops Are (Not) BastardsAn extraordinary NYT stor

Listen now (20 min) | Plus: This week's literati flame wars (Dahl, Rowling, NYT dust-up #whoknows) and what to feed the people who show up at your door Open in app or onlineFeb 26Pie Talk #3: Hoisin ChickenPlus: This week's literati flame wars (Dahl, Rowling, NYT dust-up #whoknows) and what to feed

Listen now (87 min) | The "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" author gets an "inclusive" update, while the most successful writer of her generation gets lit up on social media -- and revealed by a great new podcast Open in app or onlineFeb 2560.Burn, Baby, Burn: Roald Dahl & J.RowlingThe "Charlie an

Listen now (42 min) | A trip to Texas' most haunted city, site of the deadliest hurricane in U.history and a lesson in forces of nature and the rising tide of pleasure and sin.Open in app or onlineFeb 24Smoking Diaries #8: Ghosts of GalvestonA trip to Texas' most haunted city, site of the deadliest

Listen now (62 min) | Nancy and Sarah hit the highways for an epic adventure that crosses three cities, two hotels, one super-sized Buc-ee's, and the worst hotel meal ever served.Open in app or onlineFeb 22Smokestack Special: Texas Road TripNancy and Sarah hit the highways for an epic adventure that

Good Sunday morning from Texas.Put on the coffee and let's talk green chili burgers for breakfast, my dad baking cookies at midnight, Alison Roman, and why good work will float to the top, like the lard-fried fry-bread I ate yesterday.Open in app or onlineFeb 19Pie Talk #2: Chocolate Chip CookiesThi

Listen now (108 min) | Trans issues split the paper of record, as 1,000 NYT contributors join a formal grievance against marquee writers.Will this end in tears.) Also: Taylor Sheridan, The Smiths -- and bacon.Open in app or onlineFeb 1859.Journalism as Harm: The NYT Open LetterTrans issues split the

Listen now (25 min) | A trip back to the sleepy slacker greatness of a now-booming town: The Austin Chronicle, frozen margaritas, and how a town of weed-smoking hippies turned into a yuppie paradise for marathon runners Open in app or onlineFeb 17Smoking Diaries #7: Lost AustinA trip back to the sle

Listen now (106 min) | The country's #1 chartthrob on the Super Bowl, stapling his tie, why green beans are yuck, the rise of Newt Gingrich, and the moment that led to Donald Trump.Also: Rihanna, Benjamin Bratt, and more.Open in app or onlineFeb 1558.Steve Kornacki Loves America, Hates VegetablesThe

Listen now (22 min) | Marshall's cookbooks, caramel vs.chocolate, a visit from a celebrity chef, and why buying Nancy a new oven is in your best interest Open in app or onlineFeb 12Pie Talk #1: Pound CakeMarshall's cookbooks, caramel vs.chocolate, a visit from a celebrity chef, and why buying Nancy