Nerdette

WBEZ

Hosted by Greta Johnsen

  • 35 minutes 8 seconds
    Goodbye for now!
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    As y’all probably know, we’re calling this the “goodbye for now” episode of Nerdette because it’s our last episode while we’re employees at WBEZ. So, we thought it was the perfect time to call up Nerdette co-creator Tricia Bobeda and Nerdette Recaps co-host Peter Sagal to play our favorite game, Burden or Delight.


    Then, we hear from YOU about what Nerdette has meant to you for the past 11 years.


    We ultimately hope to find a new home for Nerdette! You can keep in touch with the team by joining our Facebook group, following Anna (@annabaumanation) and Greta (@gretamjohnsen) on Instagram, and subscribing to Greta’s newsletter.


    Thank you for 11 amazing years. We love you!

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    28 May 2024, 8:00 am
  • 20 minutes 18 seconds
    Nerdette Book Club: More with Amor Towles, LIVE!
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    May’s Book Club selection is the fabulous short story collection ‘Table for Two’ by Amor Towles. It was amazing to get to talk to Amor in front of a LIVE audience in Chicago a few weeks ago. Since we were only able to share about half of that conversation in the podcast feed, we decided to bring you more from our chat and dive even deeper into the book!


    A programming note – this is our second to last episode as a production at WBEZ. We are ultimately looking for a new home for the show. But until we figure that out, we’ll have one more episode on Tuesday.

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    24 May 2024, 8:00 am
  • 20 minutes 47 seconds
    All the books to read this summer!!!
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    This week, we ask voracious reader Liberty Hardy to rave about the best books coming out this summer. Liberty is the host of the Book Riot podcast ‘All the Books!’ She and Greta trade their top picks.


    Here are the titles in the order that they’re mentioned in the episode:

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    17 May 2024, 8:00 am
  • 38 minutes
    A kitchen therapy session with Tamar Adler
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    This week, cookbook author and leftovers lover Tamar Adler joins us to answer YOUR questions on cooking, hosting and eating. Tamar is the author of 'The Everlasting Meal' and 'The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z.' She also writes the newsletter “The Kitchen Shrink,” where she regularly gives out culinary advice.

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    10 May 2024, 8:00 am
  • 31 minutes 59 seconds
    Nerdette Book Club LIVE with Amor Towles!
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    This week, we are bringing you a special LIVE edition of Nerdette Book Club!!! The great Amor Towles, author of 'A Gentleman in Moscow' and 'The Lincoln Highway,' joined us in front of a live audience at the Athenaeum Theater in Chicago to discuss our May Book Club selection, his most recent book 'Table for Two!' It’s a collection of six different short stories set in New York City and a novella based on characters from his first novel, 'Rules of Civility,' set in Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood. This is a spoiler-free conversation! We’ll be back at the end of the month with more.

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    7 May 2024, 8:00 am
  • 16 minutes 13 seconds
    A joyfully defiant summer playlist
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    This week, we’re sharing some of the best new music out this summer! Our friend Kristen Kurtis is the assistant music director and Morning Show host at WXPN in Philadelphia. We asked her to bring us some fun and maybe even a little angry songs to rock out to this summer. You can find this collection of “joyfully defiant” songs below or listen along on our Spotify playlist.


    Want to add to the playlist? Send us an email at [email protected] or a dm on Instagram!


    Hater’s Anthem” by Infinity Song

    Change Shapes” by Lauren Mayberry

    Sometimes” by Mannequin Pussy

    Suffer” by Pillow Queens.

    Cartagena” by Reyna Tropical

    Broken Man” by St. Vincent

    The Feminine Urge” by The Last Dinner Party

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    3 May 2024, 8:00 am
  • 44 minutes 19 seconds
    Nerdette Book Club discusses ‘Beautyland’
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    Our April Book Club pick is Marie-Helene Bertino’s second novel 'Beautyland.' It tells the story of Adina, a girl born in Philadelphia in 1977, just as the Voyager I spacecraft launches from Earth in search of extraterrestrial life. As a child, Adina learns she herself is an alien, and her mission is to send her observations about humanity to her supervisors via fax machine (it is the ‘80s, after all). With that conceit, Bertino paints a gorgeous tapestry of what it means to be human, filled with poetic descriptions of the utterly mundane. This book is full of love, longing, and curiosity.


    We are joined by two expert readers: Mira Jacob, the author of the novel ‘The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing’ and the graphic memoir ‘Good Talk,’ and Molly McGhee, whose novel ‘Jonathan Abernathy You are Kind’ was our January Book Club selection! We discuss the book in detail, including spoilers! So if you have not read the book yet, go back and listen to our spoiler-free chat with author Marie-Helene Bertino in the feed first.

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    30 April 2024, 8:00 am
  • 20 minutes 21 seconds
    CORGIS ARE DELIGHTFUL
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    This week, we are taking some time to reflect on the past *11 years* of Nerdette by listening to two of our all-time favorite interviews. First, Greta and Stephen King (yes, that Stephen King) bond over their shared love of corgis. Then, poet Ross Gay tells us about 'The Book of Delights,' a collection of essays about finding delight everyday.


    We also want to let you know that Nerdette’s last episode at WBEZ will be May 28. Thank you for all of the love and support!


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    26 April 2024, 8:00 am
  • 28 minutes 24 seconds
    Tortured poets and airlines for dogs
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    This week, senior Reset producer Meha Ahmad and journalist Araceli Gómez-Aldana join us to unpack the week. We get into friendship breakups over Taylor Swift, a new airline for dogs and Olympic fashion.


    Then, Maura Cheeks tells us about her debut novel Acts of Forgiveness. The book imagines a world where the U.S. government awards cash reparations to the descendants of enslaved people.

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    19 April 2024, 8:00 am
  • 21 minutes 7 seconds
    Is mayo a burden or a delight? WE FIND OUT.
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    This week, our friends Dan Pashman, host of 'The Sporkful' podcast and author of the new cookbook 'Anything’s Pastable,' and Helen Rosner, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the newsletter 'The Food Scene,' go all in on food in another round of our favorite game: Burden or Delight.


    Plus, producer Anna Bauman adventured to Indianapolis this week to see the total solar eclipse. We listen to what it was like to stop and wonder at our sky.

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    12 April 2024, 8:00 am
  • 28 minutes 14 seconds
    Killer gams FTW
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    We are unpacking the week that was with Amory Sivertson, host of the WBUR podcasts Beyond All Repair and Endless Thread, and Kristina Lopez, producer of Glamorous Trash. We discuss the reasons why women need more sleep than men, age gap relationships and “Stick Nation.”


    Then, Vulture film critic Alison Wilmore tells us about why women in action movies all seem to be doing the same particular stunt. She dubs it “killer gams.”

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    5 April 2024, 8:00 am
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