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

Coming up, Abra Barons tells us why we shouldn't underestimate

stewed fruit. I mean, I feel like there's no more elegant way to end a meal than

some poached apples that have a little bit of cream

right over the top and then there's like a cookie on the side.

Plus, the latest in our nerdy job series is a lighting designer for operas.

You really get to just paint on stage. Opera is really cool.

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

humans. With us this week, we have Christina Tucker. She's the host of the podcast Wait

Is This A Date? Christina, welcome back. Hello, hello. I am thrilled to be here again.

Also here is Margaret Willison. She is the communications director and faculty for

not-sorry productions. Margaret, welcome back to you as well. Hello, Greta. It's a delight to be here.

Okay, I want to talk about succession and we are giving this boiler warning. So if somehow

you do not know what happened in last week's episode and you don't want to know,

we're going to talk about this for the next like four-ish minutes.

I would be truly shocked if anyone out there doesn't know this, but in some days,

episode the show's patriarch Logan Roy died. It was a phenomenal episode. I think we could spend

at least the next hour talking about the acting and direction and writing. I mean, the whole thing,

it was a phenomenal episode, but I would really love to chat about the spoileriness of it all

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