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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend.

Coming up, we are going to spend some time talking about cake and cookies because we could not

choose between the two. But first, it's our chance to sit back, relax, and unwind from the week

that was with two excellent humans. Back this week, we have the senior producer of WBEZ's

Midday talk show, reset, maha, maha, maha, hello. Hey Greta, how you doing?

Also here is the host of the podcast Labneca from WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios,

Alana Casanova Burgess. Alana, welcome to Nerdette.

Hi, hello from Brooklyn. Yay! Okay, so I want to start this week with a story from New Yorker.

The headline is the end of the English major. This is arguably not a new story, but it is a pretty

interesting one. It's all about how fewer and fewer students seem interested in majoring in English.

And I think you can expand that out to the humanities in general. It's a number of different

reasons for that, including a changing relationship to work and bigger financial uncertainty for younger

generations. As I said, obviously this isn't new. I do think it's interesting, though, partly

because I was an English major, and I'm really grateful for that education. Were y'all

humanities people, Alana? Yeah, I was an English major. It was actually English and general rhetoric

at Binghamton University, which is a SUNY school upstate New York, um, state university.

And yeah, yeah, it was an English major, guilty. Um, what about you, maha?

I was supposed to be an English major. I feel like this is, and hearing you, I read I didn't know

you were an English major, and hearing that you both were like, I feel like there's a clear pipeline

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