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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Let Nerdette podcast get you ready for the weekend with a quick gut check after a long election week. Plus an interview with a great author and a new strategy for organizing your thoughts.

First, we talk election distractions with Negin Farsad, comedian and host of the Fake The Nation podcast, and Clay Masters, lead political reporter for Iowa Public Radio.

Then we talk with author Nick Hornby, author of many wonderful books like High Fidelity, About A Boy, and his newest novel, Just Like You.

And finally, we talk with freelance reporter Sophie Hardach about the psychological benefits of reading out loud. Join us!

Transcript

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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.
0:34.9	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:39.6	I'm Greta Johnson, and we have somehow miraculously made it to another Friday. I am not totally sure how it happened, but I'm also just not going to think about it
0:44.8	too hard. Normally, we like to look back at the stories we loved over this past week. However,
0:50.5	this is very much like entirely only election week.
0:55.6	And I just got to say, if you came here for election results, I am very sorry.
0:59.9	Nourdet is not going to be breaking any news for you on this front.
1:03.5	But because everything is so uncertain, we thought it would be a good opportunity to just like stop and take a breath and check in with two
1:12.5	great humans about this very weird moment. Joining us today is the aggressively delightful comedian
1:19.2	Nagin Farsad, host of the podcast, Fake the Nation, Hey, Nagine. Hey, hey, Negeen. Hey, thanks for having me.
1:24.7	Hello. Hello. And our other guests today is Clay Masters, who's lead political reporter for Iowa Public Radio. Hey, thanks for having me. Hello. Hello. And our other guests today is Clay Masters,
1:28.6	who's lead political reporter for Iowa Public Radio. Hey, Clay. Hey, thanks for having me on.
1:33.5	Okay, so Clay, we are talking right now on the Thursday after election day. You have been covering Iowa
1:40.3	for the last like forever years of eternity.
1:48.1	Do you know offhand when the 2024 caucuses are?
1:52.1	The 2024 caucuses, I mean, they've kind of already started, right? I mean, because I'm sorry, these answers are making me want to throw up.
1:58.6	Continue.
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