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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson.

I'm Tricia Bobita.

This week on the show,

Consider it the live album. These are two... Like that. Exactly. That was my guitar riff. That was really good. You want to keep going?

We got a little solo here. Should you wait to like the middle of the...

The only thing I can play in the guitar is that part of smoke on the water.

You can play the guitar? Just that.

Man, maybe we should do a live show. I used to put the bassoon. It would be real good.

Smoke on the water and bassoon. Bassoon guitar solo.

Sounds kind of nerd eddy. I feel like it's not that dissimilar from what we normally do.

Of course, we would have a marching band instrument in our band.

Oh my gosh. I said live albums, but what I really meant is conversations in front of a live audience.

In a minute, we'll talk with Gillian Flynn. She is the author of Gone Girl, but first, a conversation with Tig Natarro. Tig is a stand-of-comedian who's been well-known in sort of alt-comedy circles for quite a while,

but she had her big break in 2012 when she got on stage and did a set about something that nobody expected to find funny.

Hi, how are you? Is everybody having a good time?

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