Vaccine FOMO? Don't Worry! All Your Social Skills Have Atrophied Anyway

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🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Vaccine FOMO, royal drama, and our own personal Grammys. We unpack the week that was with author Saeed Jones and host of NPR’s Embedded podcast Kelly McEvers. Then, Devon Price, a social psychologist and professor at Loyola University, debunks the lies we tell ourselves about laziness. (Spoiler alert: Laziness Does Not Exist.) Plus, Katie Heaney joins us from The Cut to talk about her recent article “I Forgot How To Hang Out.”

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
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,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen wherever you get your podcast.
0:35.2	From WBEZ Chicago, this is NERD.
0:36.0	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:37.0	It is here.
0:39.0	It is Friday. Coming up, I'm going to talk with sociologist Devin Price about their book, Laisiness Does Not Exist. One of the leading causes of
0:44.8	feeling lazy is setting out to do too much. And then some reassuring information for those of you who are
0:50.8	terrified that you're hanging out muscles have completely atrophied.
0:54.9	You're using more energy to project your voice through a mask and at a distance, and that is tiring.
1:01.2	But first, it's our panel on the week that was with two excellent humans. First up is the author
1:06.1	of the poetry collection, Prelude to Bruze and the memoir How We we fight for our lives. Saeed Jones, Saeed, hi.
1:12.4	Hi, good morning.
1:13.8	I am so excited to have you on those show.
1:15.9	I'm so excited to be here.
1:17.4	Yes, we also have one of my very favorite humans, Kelly McEvers, the host of the NPR
1:22.3	podcast Embedded.
1:23.5	Kelly, hi.
1:25.0	Hey.
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