From WBEZ Chicago, this is NerdEd. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another

weekend. Coming up, we're going to talk about some of our favorite cookbooks of the year.

I love this book so much. And then I was like, is the NerdEd podcast as into grilling

reps as I am as a native Texan? I don't know, but listen up folks.

And then some of our favorite food nerds chime in with ideas for delicious stuff you

could make right now. You know, this is just almost the best time of the year for vegetables

and fruit. It's so exciting. But first, we take a minute to pause, shake off the week

that was, and chat about what's going on with two of my favorite co-workers. With us

this week, we have the senior producer of WBEZ's talk show, Reset, Meha Ahmad. Meha,

hello. Hey Greta, happy to be here. Oh my gosh, delighted to have you. We also have WBEZ

Metro reporter Adora Numigade. Adora, hello. Hey, thanks for having me. Okay, so another

big recent story is the BBC announcement about who would play the next doctor and doctor

who. It's Shudi Gautoi. He's Scottish and Rwandan. He is the first person of color to

have this role in the show's 60 year history. Now, Meha, you're a big who person, right?

I am. I love him as Eric. And if you see, if you've ever watched Netflix's show Sex

Education, which has a great cast, I mean, Jillian Anderson is in it. I'm of course blanking

on literally everybody else in the show, but the whole show is really good in it. But

when he's in a scene, he just eats it up. I mean, he just pops off the screen. Everything

he does is perfect. And like he, I mean, just any line he delivers is, I never would have

expected anybody to deliver the line that way or perform this part that way. And so I've

just always loved him on the show. And then I saw he was going to be Dr. Who. And I'm

like, if you ever watched Dr. Who, the character itself, you know, each actor brings their own

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