I Want To Believe… In An End To The Generation Wars

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

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

4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week we’re joined by ‘1A’ senior producer Jonquilyn Hill and Danielle Kurtzleben, co-host of ‘The NPR Politics Podcast.’ Together, we unpack the week that was, including societal reopening, UFOs, and the latest escalation in the unending generation wars. Plus, romance novelists Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, who have written more than a dozen novels together under the pen name Christina Lauren. They dish about their new book, how they became BFFs, and why they love the romance genre. AND science writer Olga Khazan explains why it’s never too late for you to change your personality. (But only if you want! We think you’re great just as you are.) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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 WBEZ Chicago, join me as i share how the genre began
0:22.7	their social impact and why these stories endure listen wherever you get your podcast from wb easy
0:33.9	chicago this is nerdette i'm gretta Johnson. Here we are. Another Friday is upon us.
0:39.0	Coming up, we're going to hear from the two women who team up to write romance novels under the pen name Christina Lauren.
0:45.3	You know, there's reasons why we get into it as readers. And then there's reasons why we get into it as writers.
0:50.3	And I think as readers, we know that we're promised to happily ever after.
0:55.4	Plus, a science writer tells us, can change your personality. A lot of people were kind of thinking, like,
0:59.9	wait, do I really need to be living the way that I always have been? Or can I actually change
1:05.6	something about myself in order to maybe live differently? And the answer to that is yes.
1:09.6	But only if you want to,
1:11.0	no pressure. I think you are great just the way you are. First up, it's our panel on the week that
1:16.2	was with us today. We have John Glenn Hill, senior producer for the NPR show 1A and host of
1:20.8	the podcast Through the Cracks. JQ, hello. Hey, it's so great to be with you guys again.
1:26.1	Yay. And here with us is a reporter who sometimes hosts the NPR Politics podcast, Danielle Kurtzleben. Danielle, hello. Hey, great to be back. I love how it sounds like you just like jump in there. You just take over now and then when you feel like it. Excuse me. I will ask the questions now.
1:47.1	Okay, so this week, I think it's time to start with COVID.
1:51.5	A lot has changed in the last week, and it might not all be bad news. The European Union announced it's going to allow vaccinated people to visit.
1:55.5	The CDC has this new, like, wear your mask here, but not there, but only if you're vaccinated, but we're not
2:01.3	actually going to check situation, which means cities are starting to reconsider actually
2:05.7	opening. Here in Chicago, we just heard the multi-day music festival, Wallapalooza is happening,
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