How To Adapt

Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A lot of us are looking around and realizing the plans we had aren’t necessarily a reality anymore. Which can be scary and hard, but it’s also a great opportunity to adapt.

Today, Greta checks in with her friend Shannon Downey. She’s a crafter with a big online community, but most of the work she does involves meeting people in real life, something that can’t happen right now. Hear what she decided to do, and the voices of Nerdette listeners from all over the place, about what they’re grateful for and how they’re adapting to new normals.

If you’d like to chime in, just tell us how you’re adapting, along with your name and where you’re from. You can record yourself on your phone and email the file to [email protected].

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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.
0:33.5	Is it just me or is today like extra weird?
0:45.9	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad. I'm Greta Johnson. It is Thursday, March 19th, and I am still here coming at you from the floor of my bedroom closet.
0:50.6	This is another edition of Nerdette's Introverts Guide to the Good Life.
0:55.5	This is the part of the script that my producer added in.
1:00.6	He says he wanted me to say, quick reminder, before we get started, be sure to pay attention to your personal hygiene because you might not be interacting with many humans, if any at all,
1:06.7	really.
1:07.5	And I'm sure you're still washing your hands, but like, be sure to wash your body
1:11.8	and clothes and stuff. This is the point where I'm like, you know, I mean, do whatever you got to do.
1:16.2	I have not washed my body today. I did take a bath yesterday morning. That was pretty nice.
1:27.3	Okay, so today is a really good day, I think, to talk about adaptation.
1:32.2	We're not going to call it coping.
1:33.5	We're not going to call it dealing with it.
1:35.7	But what we're talking about is what you do after that moment when you look around and you realize that things are not the way that you had planned.
1:43.9	Which, let's be honest,
1:45.1	a lot of us are dealing with that in like a bunch of different ways right now.
1:49.8	My friend Shannon Downey had this experience pretty intensely last week, so I thought I would
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