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From WB Easy Chicago, this is Naredette. I'm Greta Johnson, and we made it to the last Friday in the month of February.

Coming up, I'm going to chat with a woman who has been waking up before sunrise every day to go swimming in a very cold lake Michigan.

She says it's helping her get out of her pandemic funk.

If there's open water, we're swimming.

You know, Deirdre will leap off of the ladder, and she does 30 strokes out, 30 strokes back.

So if we can swim, we swim.

Then we'll get a preview of a word season before the Golden Globes this weekend.

But first, it's our panel on the week that was with two very exciting guests.

First up, we have musician and author Dessa Dessa. Welcome back to Naredette.

Thanks for having me.

And the host of the public radio show Snap Judgment, Glenn Washington, Glenn. Hi.

Hey.

Okay, so I think we need to start this week as we have with many weeks by talking about the COVID pandemic, perhaps unsurprisingly.

This week, we hit a very grim milestone, half a million people in the United States now have died of coronavirus.

Meanwhile, the FDA approved another vaccine and there's more talk of another stimulus package coming from Congress.

All of these things would be a lot to process in any given week, let alone whatever individual, personal and professional trauma.

All of us have been getting through.

We're also nearing the one year anniversary of shutdowns that started across the US.

I'm curious to talk to both of you about the idea of a pandemic wall.

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