Nerdette: Separating Fantasy From Reality
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It might seem increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction these days, but Studio 360 host and author Kurt Andersen says the dilemma is old — and one that’s exacerbated by unique characteristics of America. Oh, and cosplay and the Internet. Andersen sat down with Nerdette to discuss his new book, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History. He's also obsessed with maps, so we put him on the phone with geographical expert Anne Knowles, who told us all to get lost — in the literal sense.
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| 0:15.6 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette I'm Tricia Bobita and I am Greta |
| 0:21.6 | Johnson and this week's guest is Kurt Anderson. |
| 0:24.4 | He hosts a radio show called Studio 360, and he is an author. |
| 0:27.8 | His new book is called Fantasyland, How America Went Haywire, a 500 year history. |
| 0:33.1 | Which is extra fun because when you write it out like this, Tricia, |
| 0:36.0 | there are two colons in there. |
| 0:38.0 | Fantasyland colon, how America went haywire, colon, |
| 0:41.0 | 500 year history, colon. Well, now there's one period. |
| 0:44.0 | period. |
| 0:45.0 | period. |
| 0:46.0 | I like that you put an extra win in at the end. |
| 0:48.0 | It's like when you're spelling banana out loud, it just gets out of hand. |
| 0:51.0 | Will you spell banana out loud? B and a hand. But, A and A and A. And A. I hear you. |
| 0:58.0 | I hear you. |
| 0:59.0 | B. A. N. A. N. A. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. But here's the thing, Kurt's book is all about the things that we as Americans as fiercely independent Americans sometimes insist on believing even if there isn't empirical factual evidence to back us up. |
| 1:14.0 | I have things that I believe that are probably not true. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, tell me yours. What do you got? |
| 1:20.0 | So I... |
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