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

This week May Whitman is the star of a new Hulu musical called Up Here. It is her first

true foray into singing and she said it was completely outside of her comfort zone.

You stand in front of a piano with people who write frozen and they're all like,

you know, talking about fucking B-flat or whatever. But first it's our chance to sit back and

online, not necessarily from the week that was. But from the last three years, no pressure,

I know. With us this week, we have the hosts of the excellent new WBEZ show Shoes Off a sexy

Asians podcast, Susie on and Esther Yunji Kang. Hi, you two. Hey, it's for having us.

So I kind of can't believe it, but it has in fact been three years since the world completely

changed from COVID. Here at WBEZ, our first day working from home was Friday March 13th. A date I

will never forget. It was a very weird and isolating time and a lot has changed since then.

But I think it's fair to say that our barometer for what normal is has completely shifted.

Susie, you know, something I've been thinking about a lot is just like the extent to which we've

even had a chance to process all of what's happened over the past three years. What do you think?

I'm still climbing out of my pit of despair. Yeah, I mean, I think it's interesting that you say

that we haven't really had a chance to process it because it's sort of like especially with

folks who were at home with kids, you know, once the kids went back to school and you know,

we continued working, you're still doing the things. You're still living the life and, you know,

maybe you're not necessarily all at home doing your things all at once,

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