When The Pressure’s Just Too Much

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Greta Johnsen

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This one’s all about anxiety! We talk about how Naomi Osaka is paving the way for all of us with WBEZ education reporter Susie An and Axios Today host Niala Boodhoo, then neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki talks to us about why anxiety is still so misunderstood. Plus, we catch up with Lauren Groff about her wonderfully weird novel, 'Matrix.'

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0:00.0	From WVEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad, I'm Greta Johnson.
0:08.2	We did it, we made it to another weekend and we have a great show this week to help you
0:12.9	unwind.
0:13.9	We will hear from author Lauren Graf about whether her new book about nuns in the middle
0:18.5	ages is actually kind of magical and escapist.
0:22.2	I kept joking with my friends that I wanted to create a lesbian separatist utopia on some
0:27.4	island somewhere.
0:29.4	Plus Wendy Suzuki invites us to figure out how to make the best of our anxiety.
0:34.2	This is the moment to start talking about it and to find ways to bring it back into the
0:40.4	role that anxiety was meant to play in our lives.
0:44.2	But first it's our panel on the week that was this week we have two excellent guests with
0:48.6	us.
0:49.6	First up is WVEZ Education Reporter Susie on Susie hey.
0:53.1	Hey Greta.
0:54.1	Thanks for coming.
0:55.1	We also have the host of the Axios today podcast Nyla Budu Nyla, welcome back.
0:59.4	Thank you Greta.
1:00.9	So it is a week this weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist
1:07.1	attacks actor Michael K Williams who played Omar on the wire died earlier this week.
1:12.7	And the fraud trial against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes started.
1:16.6	I think we should just dive in and start with sports this week.
1:21.4	The US open ends this weekend and a couple of days ago Naomi Asaka rocked the tennis world
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