Grow Along With Us

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

Nerds, Self, Improvement, Pop, Books, Wbez, Technology, Nerdette, Society & Culture, Culture, Tv & Film, Tv, Nerd

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We unwind from another tumultuous almost-spring with the producer and host of the podcast ‘Normal Gossip.’ Topics include our (irrational?) love of houseplants, our ambivalence about Season 2 of ‘Russian Doll’ after a perfect Season 1, and what we love about banned books.

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0:00.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is NerdEd, I'm Greta Johnson, we did it, we made it to another
0:07.5	weekend.
0:08.5	Here to help us unwind from the week that was, are the producer and host of the podcast
0:12.4	Normal Gossip, Alex, Sujong Loughlin, and Kelsey McKinney, Alex, Kelsey, welcome.
0:17.1	Hi.
0:18.1	Hi.
0:19.1	Thanks so much for having us.
0:20.1	Thank you both for doing this.
0:21.1	I love Normal Gossip, it's such a fun hang, so I'm excited to have y'all on that.
0:24.8	Right, Ash, thank you.
0:26.0	Okay, so I want to start with a story that caught my attention this week from the New
0:30.0	York Times style section.
0:31.0	It is about the it plant, apparently the fiddly fig is no longer the hip plant to have.
0:37.7	There's a new one, it's got the market cornered, and it's called the Geoganthus psiliatus,
0:43.2	a plant buyer founded on an expedition somewhere, apparently it's super pricey.
0:46.7	It's like a whole thing.
0:48.6	It's funny because like I am a house plant person, but this article kind of made me really
0:53.2	sad and sucked all the fun out of having plants because it was like, oh, this is another
0:56.7	market.
0:57.7	I don't know, what did you think?
0:59.3	Like, Kelsey, are you a plant person?
1:00.7	I am a new plant person, and I feel like I am already kind of a decade behind on plants
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