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Interviews with your favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) authors, artists, astronauts and more. From WBEZ.

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  • The Doctor Is In — Again!

    Nerdette’s resident epidemiologist is back! We talk to infectious disease expert Emily Landon about the Delta variant and how much we should be bracing ourselves for winter.

    Listen — 21:40

  • Queens Of Pop And Vampire Slayers

    We talk music news with Jasmine Garsd (NPR) and Jill Hopkins (Vocalo), check in with actor Harvey Guillén (‘What We Do in the Shadows’), and walk through an American Medical Association report that …

    Listen — 34:12

  • Nerdette Book Club: ‘Klara And The Sun’

    It’s our long-awaited episode on ‘Klara and the Sun’! We dive into Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest with ‘Divergent’ author Veronica Roth and writer Anita Felicelli.

    Listen — 48:15

  • Is Anything Even Good Anymore?

    WTTW anchor Brandis Friedman and WBEZ reporter Araceli Gómez-Aldana talk to us about Lil Nas X’s new gig with Taco Bell, if anything we watch is “good” in the age of armchair critics, and why the …

    Listen — 36:50

  • #RushTok 101

    We’re back with a panel! This week, we talk COVID, Jeopardy!, and #RushTok with WBEZ daily newsletter writer Hunter Clauss and New York Times TV critic Margaret Lyons. Then, Eve Ewing tells us about …

    Listen — 32:41

  • Is the New Nicolas Cage Movie … Actually Good?

    This week, it’s all about summer movies. First, we check in with TIME’s Eliana Dockterman about what’s been good, what to avoid, and what the deal is with that whole ScarJo/Disney lawsuit situation. …

    Listen — 32:56

  • All Hail the Slacker Picnic

    This week, two of our favorite eaters — Bon Appetit senior staff writer Alex Beggs and New York Times restaurant critic Tejal Rao — tell us why the best picnics might just be the least photogenic …

    Listen — 20:54