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Happy To Be Here

Stephen King, Anna Quindlen And Garden Gnomes

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

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

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anna Quindlen about how to raise feminist sons and why she doesn’t care what other people think of her. Then, King of Horror Stephen King tells us about his short-legged obsession. And Greta calls a hotline to talk to a dream interpreter.



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0:00.0

This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.

0:05.0

Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.

0:09.0

Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events.

0:15.6

From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdett I'm Tricia Bobita and I'm Greta

0:21.6

Johnson this week on the podcast we talk with Anna Quinlan.

0:24.6

She is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.

0:26.4

She has been writing books for decades.

0:28.3

She is a magical, fierce feminist and you are going to love our conversation with her. And later in the show, we're talking to Stephen King.

0:35.0

He is perhaps our greatest living horror novelist,

0:38.0

responsible for The Shining, which I watched way too young

0:40.0

and am now afraid of everything Jack Nicholson does as a result, like all of it.

0:44.9

Like I can't watch as good as it gets without being a little terrified.

0:47.9

The thing about Stephen King is, for all the really scary stuff that he writes it turns out Stephen King is actually

0:53.7

really soft on dogs a very specific breed of dog first though Tricia I have to tell

0:59.1

you about the super weird dream I had last night I found Oh, you don't want to hear it? I mean no one ever wants to hear anyone describe their dreams, right? Like that's a rule. It should be a rule in the co-host bond that I don't actually have to listen to you talk about your dreams nor you my dreams

1:14.8

Okay fine well lucky for me and honestly lucky for you Tricia this week is National Dream

1:22.0

Hotline Week.

1:23.0

Once a year, something called the School of Metaphysics

1:26.0

invites you to call them up,

1:28.0

and you can tell them your dreams and they interpret them for you.

1:31.0

So I called up the School of Metaphysics, campus and Palatine, which isn't far from here in Chicago, and I talked with Leah Morris.

1:40.0

Hello, this is Leah.

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