Stephen King, Anna Quindlen And Garden Gnomes

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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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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0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
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0:35.2	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:36.2	I'm Tricia Bobita. And I'm Greta Johnson. This week on the podcast,
0:38.7	we talk with Anna Quinlan. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. She has been writing books for
0:42.9	decades. She is a magical, fierce feminist, and you are going to love our conversation with her.
0:47.9	And later in the show, we're talking to Stephen King. He is perhaps our greatest living horror novelist,
0:53.0	responsible for The Shining, which I watched way too young and am now afraid of everything Jack Nicholson does as a result, like all of it.
1:00.0	Like, I can't watch as good as it gets without being a little terrified.
1:03.3	The thing about Stephen King is, for all the really scary stuff that he writes, it turns out Stephen King is actually really soft on dogs. A very specific breed of
1:12.8	dog. First though, Trisha, I have to tell you about the super weird dream I had last night. I found out,
1:18.8	oh, you don't want to hear it. I mean, no one ever wants to hear anyone describe their dreams,
1:22.9	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 are you my dreams.
1:30.6	Okay, fine. Well, lucky for me and honestly, lucky for you, Tricia. This week is National Dream Hotline Week. Once a year, something called the School of Metaphysics invites you to call them up, and you can tell them your dreams, and they interpret them for you. So I called up the School of Metaphysics invites you to call them up and you can tell them your dreams and they
1:45.4	interpret them for you. So I called up the School of Metaphysics campus in Palatine, which
1:49.9	isn't far from here in Chicago. And I talked with Leah Morris.
1:58.8	Hello, this is Leah. Hey, Leah. This is Greta from Nurtet.
2:02.6	Hi, Greta. How are you?
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