Your Weekend Starts Here: Baby Busts, 'Black Buck' And The Collapse Of Capitalism?

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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GameStop, GameStop, GameStop. Be gone! Another week is in the books, and we break down the news in vaccine distribution and pandemic fertility rates with WBEZ criminal justice reporter Patrick Smith and soon-to-be City Cast lead producer Carrie Shepherd. Plus, we take a look at all these GameStop shenanigans with Slate reporter Alex Kirshner. Then, a conversation with Mateo Askaripour, the author of a new part-satire, part-self help novel about a black salesman on a mission: Black Buck. Join us!

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0:00.0	This fall, W be easy invites you to our upcoming live events.
0:05.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
0:09.0	Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org
0:12.6	slash events.
0:13.6	From W be easy Chicago, this is Nurdette.
0:19.6	I'm Greta Johnson and it is the last Friday of January a month that a previous guest called
0:25.0	the 13th month of 2020. Have we turned a corner? Only time we'll tell. Coming up
0:30.7	today I'm going to talk with Mateo Iscarapoor about his excellent satirical novel Blackbuck.
0:36.0	Plus, you've probably heard a lot about Game Stop this week.
0:39.6	We're going to ask an expert if a video game store did in fact destroy capitalism.
0:44.7	Uh, totally. Capitalism is over.
0:47.0	Oh, we're all free.
0:48.0	Just like that.
0:49.0	But first we have our panel about the week that was.
0:52.1	Our guests this week are soon to be
0:54.3	former editor at W. B. E. E. Cary Shepard.
0:56.8	Carrie. Hi. Hi Greta. We also have W. B. E. E.
1:00.3	criminal justice reporter Patrick Smith.
1:02.5	Pat, hey.
1:03.6	Hey, Greta.
1:04.9	Okay, so I think other than GameStop,
1:07.8	which is really a story that has like completely exploded this week,
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