We should all be talking about periods
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, we play our favorite game, Burden or Delight, with Meha Ahmad, senior producer at WBEZ’s 'Reset,' and Niala Boodhoo, host of 'Axios Today!' They decide whether a new Apple charger, a flood of wine, and extended birthday celebrations are delightful or burdensome.
Then, we talk all about periods. Up until now, no one has ever published a study on menstrual products that used actual blood to test them. Dr. Bethany Samuelson Bannow, a clinician and hematologist at Oregon Health and Science University, helped change that. We talked to her about the results of her team’s study on the absorbency of period products.
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| 0:38.4 | We did it. |
| 0:39.1 | We made it to another weekend. |
| 0:40.5 | Coming up, we are going to hear from one of the women who recently led the first ever study that actually used blood when testing period products. |
| 0:49.8 | Yes, that happened this year in 2023. |
| 0:52.3 | But we are still behind. |
| 0:53.7 | So very behind. But first, it's another |
| 0:55.7 | round of burden or delight, our extremely low stakes game with no score or prizes. Playing with us |
| 1:02.2 | this week is the senior producer of WBEZ's Daily Talk Show Reset. Maha Akhmad. Maha, hello. Hey, Greta. |
| 1:10.0 | Also here is the host of the Axios Today podcast, which is about to be replaced by a new |
| 1:14.7 | weekly show that is coming out soon, which of course will still be hosted by Naila Boodoo. |
| 1:19.5 | Naila, hello. |
| 1:21.0 | Always happy to play for the glory. |
| 1:23.3 | Okay, so as I mentioned, this week, we are back on our bullshit with the burden or delight |
| 1:26.9 | game. |
| 1:27.3 | This is very simple. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm going to tell you about three different news stories from the week, and you can tell me whether each is a burden or a delight. |
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