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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jacoby Cochran, host of City Cast Chicago, and Erin Allen, host of WBEZ's The Rundown, join us to unwind from the week! The publisher of author Roald Dahl is making edits to his children’s books to make them more appropriate for today’s readers. We discuss whether it’s a good idea. Plus, we debate how often we need to wash our towels. Then, we talk to actor Zoë Chao about her role in the new ‘Party Down’ reboot on STARZ. The show originally ran for two seasons back in 2009 and 2010. Now, it’s back for more. Zoë plays a new character on the team, Lucy Dang, a very serious and hilarious chef. We talk about the stress she felt joining a cast that was already so beloved.

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0:00.0	Education this week is a weekly newsletter for parents navigating schools
0:04.4	in Chicago and the suburbs from reporters at WBEZ and the Chicago Sun Times.
0:09.6	Sign up now just in time for back to school at WBEZ.org slash education news.
0:20.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend.
0:26.0	Coming up, the delightful Zoe Chow is in the new party down reboot on stars and she says it
0:31.2	totally triggered work nightmare she used to have when she was bartending to make ends meet.
0:36.2	I found it very triggering and I didn't anticipate that.
0:41.3	But first, let's take a minute to sit back and relax this time with two of my favorite
0:45.6	Chicago podcasters today. We have the host of CityCast Chicago, Jacobi Cochrane. Jacobi,
0:51.0	welcome back. Thank you for having me. I appreciate you.
0:54.0	Also here is the host of WBEZ's The rundown podcast, Erin Allen. Erin, welcome to Nerdette.
1:00.4	Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. Oh my gosh. So thrilled to have you.
1:04.4	Okay, so I want to start with what I think is some super interesting book news.
1:09.2	This is about role doll who of course is the classic author behind books like Charlie and the
1:13.6	chocolate factory and James in the giant peach. He's getting kind of a facelift and what I mean by
1:18.8	that is that the publisher of his books is editing them even though the author died more than 30
1:23.2	years ago. And Charlie and the chocolate factory, the word fat was changed to enormous.
1:28.4	Oompa Loompas were originally small men. Now they are small people. There's mention of a weird
1:34.8	African language and the word weird was removed. The company that manages dolls copyright worked with
1:41.3	a company that focuses on inclusion in books. And they said they did it to make sure that his works
1:45.8	could still be enjoyed by kids today. They said the changes were quote small but carefully
1:50.5	considered. Some people are alarmed by this. They're calling it censorship. Others are arguing
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