Aren't we all forever linked with those prehistoric cave painters you first dare to lift brush to stone?

Hey, Simon, uh, you wrote the fart sketch, right?

Yeah.

Does there need to be so many farts?

Yeah, I think so.

You do? Yeah.

Okay.

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita. And from W.B.E.Z. in Chicago, this is Nerdette.

Coming up, we talk with author Simon Rich about what it's like to make two 30 under 30 lists and then turn 30. I'm extremely physically young looking. I've always looked like a child.

So, you know, luckily,

I can probably still fool people for a few more years and think that I'm smart.

And we talk about the voices of women, especially young women, and how they're often not taken as seriously as the voices of men. All that plus your nerd confessions right here on Nerdette.

NPR made this lovely video called Talking While Female,

and I think we need to just dive in and listen to the first 30 seconds of it.

Did anybody ever tell you you have kind of a childlike voice?

Oh, God, your voice is so annoying, it's so squeaky, it's so high.

Frantic, grating, obnoxious. Take a shot of whiskey that may

help your voice, like, sound more rich. A woman's voice is not authoritative. People will not believe her.

I got this letter in the mail. It's written on a note card. And it basically tells me that I sound like a Kardashian

sister. That's just the first 30 seconds of the video. These are all different young women who

work at NPR reciting things that they have been told about their own voices. And Tricia, while you and I

I don't think we've ever actually been compared to Kardashians and you probably wouldn't mind

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