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Nerdette

Tricia learns to play Dungeons & Dragons and how women stack up in STEM fields around the world

Nerdette

WBEZ

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's D&D time! Tricia dives into the world of Role Playing Games with expert guides from One Shot podcast, Greta gives Veronica Mars homework and The Atlantic's Olga Khazan highlights how women rank around the world when it comes to STEM jobs, the Second Shift and more.

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0:00.0

This fall, W be easy 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

0:12.6

slash events. call a geek. I mean what's so geeky about us anyways.

0:23.2

Gentlemen good news.

0:26.6

New Dungeons and Dragons handbook, deities and demigods. We're going to have fun Friday night.

0:36.3

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita.

0:37.4

And this is the Nerd App Podcast.

0:39.8

This week we're nerding out hard about role-playing games. We are nearly 40 episodes

0:44.8

into nerd out podcast and this is our first time talking about role-playing

0:48.4

games so we realize the time is nigh. Yes, I had a blast with the creators of One Shot, a podcast all about

0:55.1

role-playing games and we'll hear a little bit from my session with them and an

0:58.5

interview with the creators of One-shot who are also game strategists.

1:02.6

I kind of like to think of your time playing this role-playing game as like a job shadow,

1:07.6

but like true nerd job.

1:09.2

True nerd job for sure.

1:10.5

I was the Elf Wizard Bangarang, so we'll hear more about that later on in the show.

1:14.3

In the meantime we're going to talk with Olga Hazan, she writes for The Atlantic.

1:18.4

Whenever Greta and I are scouring the internet for things that are about Lady

1:22.0

Nords, we often find her

1:23.7

byline attached to very smart stuff. Like an article she wrote recently for

1:27.6

the Atlantic about how women are fairing in STEM fields all around the world.

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