Songs of the summer
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode starts with our friends Araceli Gomez-Aldana of WBEZ and Traci Thomas, host of The Stacks podcast. We chat about finding back-to-school vibes in scorching hot weather, why Zoomers are collecting CDs, and the biggest search for the Loch Ness Monster in over 50 years.
Then, Houston Chronicle critic Joey Guerra catches us up on some of the biggest stories in the music world, from the allegations against Lizzo to ticket prices.
Plus, we dance it out to the songs of the summer! WXPN’s Kristen Kurtis shares some tracks with us that you may not have heard before. We also hear YOUR songs of the summer! Find all of the music mentioned in today’s episode and more in our Spotify playlist.
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| 1:05.6 | From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 1:09.7 | We did it. |
| 1:10.4 | We made it to another weekend. Coming up, |
| 1:12.5 | we are going to check in with the music critic about a good old heap of music news, including |
| 1:16.6 | why the heck concert prices are so high these days. The experience of going to a concert should not be |
| 1:22.5 | so traumatic, you know. Also, what is the song of the summer? My vote is on I'm just Ken, I gotta say. |
| 1:31.4 | But first, it's our chance to sit back and unwind from the week that was with two excellent humans |
| 1:36.0 | with us this week. We have my colleague, Aricelli Gomez-Aldana, who is about to embark on the |
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