Nancy and Sarah are one-on-one today for a roving conversation that covers: Nancy’s Portland story in a Nicholas Kristof NYT column about West Coast liberalism, a violation of privacy in the latest Free Beacon scoop, and revisiting the Gen X fever that was The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire.

Also discussed:

* Civics Bee!

* In defense of plastic straws …

* Purple states = the place to be

* Keeping the memory of Rachael Abraham alive

* West Coast liberalism, so bad even Nicholas Kristof admits it

* Who cares what BuzzMuffin43 says, anyway?

* Hepped Up, the fragrance

* No cameras in our bedrooms, please!

* She-Pee, denied

* Which Brat Packer turned out best?

* That weird tension between Andrew McCarthy and Emilio Estevez

* Journalist, meet your disgruntled subject

* John Hughes and British synth-pop

Plus, an emergency cookie recipe, some Demi Moore goddess love, a new media podcast that’s doing it right, and more!

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Episode Notes:

“What Have We Liberals Done to the West Coast,” by Nicholas Kristof (New York Times Opinion)

“A Murder in Portland,” by Nancy Rommelmann (Washington Examiner)

“Columbia Administrators Fire Off Hostile and Dismissive Text Messages, Vomit Emojis During Alumni Reunion Panel on Jewish Life,” by Eliana Johnson and Aaron Sibarium (Washington Free Beacon)

”Hollywood’s Brat Park,” by David Blum (New York Magazine, 1985)

“I Called Them Brats, and I Stand By It,” by David Blum (Vulture)

Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography, by Rob Lowe, highly recommended on audio!

What’s in your hot box?

Sarah:

Nancy: Horror Movie: A Novel, by Paul Tremblay

Got 20 minutes and $2.99? Read The Queens of Montague Street, “journalist Nancy Rommelmann's memoir of growing up in Brooklyn Heights in the 1970s, and excerpted in the New York Times Magazine as the essay, ‘Dazed and Confused.’”

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