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From W be easy Chicago, this is Nurdette.

I'm Greta Johnson and Nurdette is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon to be

favorite people about how their passions drive what they do and today's guest is

Dessa. You don't know who Dessa is? Well, buckle up.

Because we don't say, go out and be brave.

I always say, be careful, stay safe in any given instance that don't hurt, but

it stinks in like theilettoes and soft earth like the big

win is not a day without an incident I beg to differ with it I think a woman's worth

I think that she deserves a better line of work than motherfucking vigilance

don't get me vigilance.

But definition you can't make a difference if the big ambition is simply standing

century to your innocence. That's not a way to live. It can't be what a woman is. That gives a

nothing to inspire to. What that is, what that is, what that is

It's just a life of running fire drills.

Oh my god that's not like I'm about to cry also I feel like I have goosebumps on goosebumps. Like that song is just so good and that is Dessa. She owns her words so beautifully. I am so excited for this conversation. That was a song called Fire Drills. It's off Dessa's fourth studio album called Chime. We're going to talk to her about that album, which means of course we'll listen to some more music as well.

We're also going to talk with Dessa about how she eternal sunshine of the

spotless-minded her own brain to remove memories of a really painful

relationship. And we're going to talk to Dessa about the meaning of

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