God save the new boy Queen

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🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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WBEZ’s Meha and Ahmad and The New Yorker’s Helen Rosner join Greta to talk about King Charles’s standoff with a pen, the new unsend feature for iPhones, and pumpkin spice’s entrée into Merriam-Webster. Then, we talk to romance writer Jasmine Guillory about her eighth book, ‘Drunk on Love.’

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0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
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0:37.3	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:55.2	I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, we will hear from the Queen of Romance, Jasmine Guillory herself. In the years before the wedding day came out, I would go into bookstores, and there was never romance on our front table. And now every bookstore that I go into has romance, like,
1:00.4	right there in the front tables. But first, let's discuss the other queen and some other topics with two delightful humans. With us this week, we have the senior producer of WBEZ's Daily
1:05.5	Talk Show Reset, Meha Ahmad. Maha, hello. Hey, Greta. Also, here is Helen Rosner. She's a staff writer who writes
1:13.7	about food, among other things at the New Yorker. Helen, hello. Hey, Greta. Happy to be here.
1:19.1	Okay, so let's start with the new boy queen. We have a new British monarch. It is Charles
1:24.1	the third. He became king last week after his mother, Elizabeth II, died. She lived for very long time. So has Charles. He's already 73.
1:34.1	It's been hard to ignore a couple of like viral videos over the past week, especially this pen incident where like he also didn't know what day it was and then he got really
1:45.0	mad at a fountain pen. You know, a lot of people are like, dude, give this guy a minute, like his
1:51.3	mother just died. This has to be a really stressful situation. But I don't know. It's also,
1:55.9	he doesn't seem hella gracious so far. I don't know. What do you think, Helen? Are you, how closely
2:03.2	are you following this stuff? How old did you say what he's 73? Like, yeah, that's a long time to
2:08.2	be an intern for a job you're not sure you're going to get. You know, I'm sure he's spent
2:15.3	decades, if we're rounding up, I guess, close to a century,
2:18.4	like fantasizing about, well, you know, when I'm king, like in a literal way, here's what I'm going to do.
2:24.1	And then, I don't know, it's probably pretty overwhelming to suddenly be like, well, crud, I actually am.
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