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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdite. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to

another weekend. Coming up, we've heard Fall TV is going to be full of reality

shows because of the writers and actors' strikes. But reality TV is facing a reckoning of

its own. I do not have the idiot guide just starting a union in one day that I will learn quickly.

But first, it's our chance to sit back and unwind from the week with two excellent humans.

With us today, we have Anne Helen Peterson, the host of the Crooked Media Podcast,

Work Appropriate, who rates the Culture Study newsletter. And hello! It is a pleasure to be here.

Oh my gosh, it's a pleasure to have you. Also here is Vultures Podcast Critic Nick Quad. Nick,

hello. Hello, we're alive. Incredible. Incredible. Okay, so before we get to the stories that

y'all actually prepared for, I have a very strange and very quick fake pop quiz, which is this week,

the Washington Post wrote a feature about the official Guinness Book Record holder for the world's

oldest living chicken. She's at a farm in Michigan. Her name is peanut. How old is she and what is

her favorite breakfast? Anne, what do you think? Okay, this is so unfair. I'm going to take this

in a different direction altogether because I was about to get really excited because there was a

different Guinness Book Record that was broken this past weekend. And it was for the longest,

like Philly Sub, like Hogi. And it was in my hometown of Louis tonight, oh,

and like, there's no place less. There's no place that's smelly the most tonight, oh,

and he just, like, said it out. I have to drive out there. I'm so, I'm so, like,

they said it out like the length of the street, like so long, so long, and it get like pounds and

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