New year, new apocalypse!

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We ring in the new year with a panel discussion on the huge snowstorm in the mid Atlantic and the death of the BlackBerry. Author Catherine Price explains why fun is an essential part of life. And what does the sun actually sound like? One of the scientists behind the first spacecraft to touch the sun’s atmosphere tells us all about it. 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	You may not know this, but with WBEZ, you can check up on the news live anytime you want,
0:07.4	with the WBEZ app or at 91.5 on your car radio, whether you beam it or stream it.
0:13.3	The news is on WBEZ.
0:21.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad.
0:23.7	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:24.7	We did it.
0:25.7	We went to another weekend and in a whole new year, no less.
0:29.8	We have a fun show for you this week.
0:31.4	We're going to hear from someone who literally wrote the book about fun.
0:35.2	If you want to have fun, you've got to be okay, sucking.
0:37.3	I didn't put that expression in the book, but that would be a takeaway.
0:41.1	Plus, we take a journey to the 1.8 million degree edge of the sun.
0:46.2	This is exploration.
0:47.3	We are adventuring to the medium that we never visited before.
0:52.1	And whatever observations we are making there, it's a potential discovery.
0:57.2	But first, it's our panel on all the weird and wonderful things that happen this week.
1:01.5	First up, we have the senior producer for WBEZ's talk show, Reset, Meha Ahmad, Meha Hello.
1:07.1	Hey Greta.
1:08.1	And WBEZ Metro reporter Adora Namigadeh, Adora, welcome back.
1:13.4	Thank you very much for having me.
1:15.0	Okay, so I think we should start with winter weather because the mid-Atlantic got hit.
1:18.8	They saw such a crazy storm earlier this week.
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