I want those three years back!

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🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week, we are making space to commemorate three years since COVID first hit the U.S. Shoes Off: A Sexy Asians Podcast co-hosts Susie An and Esther Yoon-Ji Kang of WBEZ help us to reflect on what we learned about ourselves during the past three years and what we hope to keep with us in the future. Plus, actor Mae Whitman tells us about starring in the new Hulu musical ‘Up Here,’ out now! You may remember Mae as Anne Veal from ‘Arrested Development’ (her? Yes, her.). We chat about treating yourself gently, the power of vulnerability and how Mae got the courage to take on her first singing role.

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
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.
0:37.4	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
0:55.8	like, you know, talking about fucking B-flat or whatever. But first, it's our chance to sit back
1:01.7	and unwind, not necessarily from the week that was, but from the last three years. No pressure, I know.
1:10.0	With us this week, we have the hosts of the excellent new WB EZ
1:13.1	show, Shoes Off, a sexy Asians podcast, Susie On and Esther Yunji Kang. Hi, you two.
1:19.0	Hey. Thanks for having us. So I kind of can't believe it, but it has in fact been three years
1:24.3	since the world completely changed from COVID. Here at WBEZ, our first day
1:28.1	working from home was Friday, March 13th, a date I will never forget. It was a very weird and
1:34.5	isolating time. And a lot has changed since then. But I think it's fair to say that our barometer
1:40.4	for what normal is has completely shifted.
1:49.0	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.
1:54.1	What do you think?
1:55.8	I'm still climbing out of my pit of despair from all of that. Right? Yeah, I mean, I think it's interesting
2:03.7	that you say that we haven't really had a chance to process it because it's sort of like,
2:09.7	especially with folks who were at home with kids, you know, once the kids went back to school
2:16.9	and, you know, we continued working,
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