Burden or delight: Spider-swallowing edition
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dylan Marron, host of the podcast The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks, and Jo Firestone, comedian and host of the podcast Dr. Gameshow, stop by to play one of our favorite games, “Burden or delight.” They evaluate the number of spiders we eat in our sleep and the best time of day to eat dinner.
Then, we check in on what the heck is going on in Hollywood. The writers’ strike hit the 100 day mark this week with no end in sight. Given the huge disruptions in the industry, Variety’s TV business reporter Jennifer Maas says that peak TV has peaked. Streaming platforms must cut down on their original series. She tells us why.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still |
| 0:06.1 | watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you, |
| 0:12.7 | soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making, |
| 0:18.0 | Stories Without End from WB EZ Chicago. |
| 0:25.7 | Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure. |
| 0:28.3 | Listen wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:48.1 | From WB.EZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, the Writers Guild has been on strike officially for 100 days. We're going to hear the latest on both Hollywood strikes later in the show. |
| 0:54.2 | It will end. I have no idea how. I have no idea when. But you will. |
| 0:59.2 | But first, let's sit back and unwind from the week that was with two excellent humans. |
| 1:04.9 | With us this week, we have comedian and host of the podcast, Dr. Game Show, Joe Firestone. Joe, hello. |
| 1:06.3 | Hi, Greta. |
| 1:11.7 | Also here is writer for Ted Lasso and the host of the podcast, The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks. |
| 1:13.7 | Dylan Marin, Dylan, welcome back. |
| 1:14.5 | Hi, Greta. |
| 1:16.0 | Thanks so much for having me back. |
| 1:17.1 | Thank you for coming on. |
| 1:22.1 | Okay, so this week, we got to do another version of Burden or Delight because it is just so much fun. |
| 1:23.6 | This is a very simple game. |
| 1:32.1 | Even calling it a game is a little strong because there are no rules and there's definitely no score. Essentially, we're just going to talk about three different news stories and whether they are a burden or a delight. So I think we should start with the study about dinner time. It is |
| 1:38.3 | based on census data and it concluded that people in Pennsylvania, on average, eat dinner at 537 p.m. |
| 1:46.3 | So, Joe, what do you think? Is this a burden or a delight? |
| 1:49.8 | You know, I have eaten early dinners before in my life, but that just means that the rest of the night is going to be snacks. |
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