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From WB.EZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson, and it is another Friday. Coming up, I'm going to chat with Sarah Langen, whose book Good Neighbors is phenomenal. It's really about what is happening in this country. Why are we tearing each other apart? And what are the inevitable results of that? Then New York Times TV critic Margaret Lyons recommends three new shows, one of which involves

a train car full of corgis.

And the holiday celebrated on a corgi car is called The Feast of a Thousand Chicken Nuggets,

which I think is a pretty good feast.

But first, it's our panel about the week that was our guests this week are Hannah

Rosen, who runs podcasts at New York Magazine.

Hannah, hey.

Hi. And we have Julian White Managing Editor at the Atlantic, Gillian. Welcome. Thank you. Okay, so I think we should

start this week as we often do with COVID. Now that more and more Americans are getting vaccinated,

there's controversy around the idea of a vaccine passport. Could or should governments or businesses require people to show proof of vaccination

before doing certain things, especially around, you know, international travel, for example.

The Biden administration has been pretty clear that there will not be a federal mandate,

and the Republican governors of Texas and Florida

have signed executive orders banning any kind of vaccine passport requirement.

Meanwhile, Norwegian cruise lines just submitted a plan to the U.S. Centers of Disease Control

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