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

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4.6 • 924 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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0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
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0:35.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:55.7	I'm Greta Johnson, and it is the last Friday of January, a month that a previous guest called the 13th month of 2020. Have we turned a corner? Only time we'll tell. Coming up today, I'm going to talk with Mateo Escarpur about his excellent satirical novel, Black Buck. Plus, you've probably heard a lot about GameStop this week. We're going to ask an expert if a video game store did, in fact, destroy capitalism. Totally. Capitalism is over.
1:02.4	Wow. We're all free. Just like that. But first, we have our panel about the week that was. Our guests
1:08.3	this week are soon to be former editor at WB Easy Carrie
1:11.8	Shepherd. Carrie. Hi. Hi, Greta. We also have WB.EZ criminal justice reporter Patrick Smith. Pat,
1:18.2	hey. Hey, Greta. Okay, so I think other than GameStop, which is really a story that has
1:24.4	completely exploded this week, one that's been a big story,
1:28.1	and I think that will continue to be a big story for quite some time, is about COVID vaccine
1:33.3	distribution. Who's able to get it? Who isn't? How all of that is working? There are different
1:37.9	rules in every state. It seems extremely convoluted and complicated. Carrie, I know you're not
1:44.0	directly editing a lot of
1:45.4	vaccine stories for WBEZ, but just like due to like editorial osmosis, what's your sense
1:51.7	about how things are going here in Chicago? My sense is that there's still a lot of confusion
1:56.1	about how and where to get the vaccine. I was thinking about this and actually asking Becky Vee, who is one of our colleagues,
2:05.8	and she's the reporter who's sort of taking the lead on covering the vaccine distribution.
2:11.1	And I was like, it hasn't even occurred to me to think about when I can get the vaccine
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