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From W be easy Chicago, this is Nernet.

I'm Greta Johnson and we have made it to another Friday whatever that means.

Today's show is full of good stuff.

We're going to tell you why it might be a good idea to put your phone down for one day every

week and you're going to learn a new way to make sense of some of your maybe less than delightful life experiences.

Plus, of course, we've got a couple book recommendations for you.

But first, we're going to have a conversation about the week we just survived, at least so far, with two of my favorite humans.

Arian Nettles is a journalism lecturer at Northwestern University.

Arian, hey!

Hi!

And Patrick Smith is a criminal justice reporter at W.B. E. E.

Hey, Pat.

Hey, Greta.

OK, so I think we should start with a big story from this week, which is that Google is being sued by the Justice Department.

The Justice Department is saying the company is monopolizing web search and search advertising.

This is huge. It's actually the biggest challenge to big

tech in almost two decades. Google's defense is that there's plenty of other

search options out there. Kent Walker is the company's chief legal officer and he says

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