From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette, I'm Greta Johnson, we did it, we made it to another

weekend and somehow it is July.

Coming up, I talked to the creator of theatrical experience where you spend a pretty intense

hour on the phone with a complete stranger.

You won't be able to track this person down, you won't recognize them on the street, you

might be standing in line with them at the bank, you know, a couple months later, but you

would never ever know it.

Plus, Everdy Mason, who's in charge of games at The New York Times, tells us how she

wants to shake things up in Crossword Land even though she is not that intense about them.

The big scam is that I'm actually not that great at them, I'm a very, very comfortable

Monday Tuesday sulfur.

But first, it's our chat about the week that was with us this week, we have two excellent

guests.

First up is Priska Neely, managing editor for the Gulf States newsroom, a collaboration

between NPR and some Gulf States, Priska, hello, hello, good to be here.

Thanks for coming.

Okay, so we also have Anna Rubinova, she is the co-creator of Left Handed Radio, the sketch

comedy podcast, Anna, welcome.

Hi there, nice to be here, hey.

So it turned out to actually be a pretty heavy week, I would say.

Search and Rescue crews are still sorting through the rubble of the building in Miami.

Bill Cosby, who had been serving a 10-year sentence for sexual assault, got out of jail

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