The Billionaire Space Race Is Yawn! I Mean On!

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We unpack the week that was with Arionne Nettles and Meha Ahmad, including the Euro Cup controversy, billionaires in space, and the latest (not greatest) food trend: mac and cheese ice cream. Then, Jenn Northington and Swapna Krishna tell us about ‘Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices.’ They’re the editors of this incredible new anthology of King Arthur stories retold by writers who hold marginalized identities. Plus, Anna North joins to dispel the myth of lockdown as a sabbatical once and for all.

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0:00.0	From WB Easy Chicago, this is Nerdette, I'm Greta Johnson, we did it, we made it to another
0:07.6	weekend.
0:08.6	Coming up, I talk with the editors of an excellent new collection of short stories about
0:12.8	why they wanted remixes of our three legends.
0:16.8	There's just so much there there, like of underdog stories and new stories about power balance
0:21.2	and then you have these love stories and there's battle, there's politics, like what isn't
0:26.8	there?
0:27.8	Anna North takes down the myth that we were supposed to treat lockdown as a time to be
0:31.6	productive and awesome and amazing.
0:34.0	This was always the strange argument to me and I was surprised to see it just persist
0:38.0	and persist and persist and still be there today.
0:40.5	But first, it's our panel on the week that was, both panelists this week, our friends
0:44.8	of the show.
0:45.8	We have Meha Afmod, senior producer for WB Easy's midday talk show, reset, hey Meha,
0:50.4	me Greta.
0:52.1	And we have Ari Ann Nettles, she's the deputy editor at City Bureau here in Chicago,
0:56.9	Ari.
0:57.9	Hello.
0:58.9	Hello.
0:59.9	I love your singing.
1:00.9	Hello.
1:01.9	They always just make me so happy.
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