Weekly Wrap: Harvey Weinstein Trial Begins, Iran Conflict, Plus Getting Off Twitter

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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Elise Hu steps in for Sam this week, from member station WBEZ in Chicago. She's joined by NPR's Peter Sagal, host of 'Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!', and Greta Johnsen of WBEZ's 'Nerdette' podcast. They discuss Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer now on trial in New York for sex crimes. Plus, an Iranian-American writer shares her perspective on decades of disputes between Iran and the U.S. Also, Peter tries to get off Twitter.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Carl Coates in Chicago. I taught at least high school social studies. This week on the show
0:06.6	from Chicago, host of WBZ's Nerdet Podcast, Greta Johnson, and host of NPR's Weight Weight
0:14.2	Don't Tell Me, Peter Sago. All right, let's start the show.
0:21.4	There it is. Hey y'all, I'm Elise Hugh in for Sam Sanders. It's been a minute. Not only
0:26.0	as Sam away, but we are away from our home base in LA. I didn't mean to rhyme there. We're here at NPR
0:33.3	member station WBZ in Chicago, which brings me to our guests, Greta Johnson, host of WBZ's Nerdet
0:39.3	Podcast, Greta. Hey, and Peter Sago, host of a little public radio show you might know.
0:44.6	If you're listening to this show on the radio, you might have actually heard Peter's show right
0:48.8	before this one. What is it called? Wait, wait, don't tell me. Oh my god, you went there first off.
0:56.0	Oh, well, you're getting you're getting me back for being late to the table. And Peter, you
0:59.6	regularly nerd out with Greta on her Nerdet Podcast. I do. I'm a regular guest. I'm the
1:05.5	Tim Comway to her Carol Burnett. I love that. And y'all hosted a new podcast together called
1:11.1	Nerdet recaps his dark materials with Peter Sago. Yes. Yeah, very SIO friendly. Yeah, I'm assuming
1:18.3	that has some reason like you put my name in the title because you want to differentiate it from
1:22.0	the actual good Nerdet Podcast. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So people are warned that there's Peter Sago
1:26.3	content right off the top. Well, because originally we did put it in the actual Nerdet feed when
1:31.2	we started with Game of Thrones. And we did have very loyal Nerdet listeners who were like, why is Peter
1:36.8	Sago mansplaining Game of Thrones now? You have a bit for when Peter gets to be a little bit too much.
1:45.2	Yeah, because I mean, the patriarchy speaking. Yep. So ladies be quiet. Peter Sago is the worst.
1:51.6	And I say this, I say this aware of what it means. Those are my friends, the guys who did that.
1:58.5	Their name are Paul and Storm. They are a comedy singing duo, also well known for running the
2:04.0	Joe Co. Cruise if you're a nerd and you want to go in a big boat with nothing but other nerds.
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