What is this year’s sexiest supply chain?

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

Tv & Film, Self, Nerd, Books, Technology, Tv, Improvement, Culture, Wbez, Society & Culture, Pop, Nerdette, Nerds

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all heard way more about supply chains this year than ever before, but how will the shortages and delays affect your holiday book haul? Nerdette goes on a journey through the publishing industry to find out. But first, the panel gets into vaccines for kids and People magazine’s choice for the sexiest man alive, Paul Rudd.

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0:00.0	You may not know this, but with WBEZ you can check up on the news live anytime you want,
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0:13.3	The news is on WBEZ.
0:20.9	From WBEZ Chicago, this is NerdEd, I'm Greta Johnson, we did it, we made it to another
0:26.0	weekend. Here is a fun fact to start off the show. Did you know that a group of porcupines
0:31.6	is called a prickle? How delightful is that? Coming up we'll take a deep dive into the
0:37.2	book publishing supply chain, turns out it's kind of a disaster. Yeah, every single step.
0:43.0	There aren't as many mills as there used to be, they've all shut down, they're going
0:46.0	bankrupt. It's going to be an issue for sure, it's going to be boring.
0:49.3	But first it's our panel to unpack the week with us, so we have the host of the podcast
0:53.5	fake the nation, Nagin, far side, Nagin. Hello. Oh my gosh, a prickle, I had no idea,
0:59.6	and now I'm going to try and say it every single day of my life. It's just so good. Also,
1:05.6	here is the host of the sportful podcast and the inventor of a whole new pasta, Dan
1:10.3	Pashman. Dan, hello. Hey Greta, great to see you.
1:13.6	Okay, so I think we should start with Kid Vax's, because you two are both parents and nearly
1:19.0	a million kids around the country received their first round of Pfizer shots this week.
1:22.8	You both have children. Dan, yours are old enough for the vaccine, right?
1:27.5	Yes, I have an 11-year-old and an eight-year-old.
1:30.5	Okay, so have you gotten to sign them up yet?
1:33.2	They are actually getting vaccinated right now as we speak.
1:36.4	No, that's amazing.
1:37.7	Yes, it's happening this very moment.
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