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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend.

Coming up, the doctor is in Emily Landon, who we like to call our resident epidemiologist,

answers a lot of questions about navigating COVID this fall. But first, it is our chance

to sit back and relax from the week that was with two excellent humans. With us this week,

we have Jacobi Cochran, the host of CityCast Chicago. Jacobi, hello.

Morning Greta. Thank you for having me back.

Oh my gosh. Thanks for coming on. Also here is WBEZ Metro reporter Adora Nomigade. Adora,

hello. Hello. How are you? I'm good. How are you doing? Well, a little

disgusted by what we brought to this. But she just dropped COVID surge and was like, now let's talk

about something else. I can't focus on anything else. Let's talk about something else and that

something else is burning man in this instance because the annual desert festival for tech bros

flooded this year, prompting what many news outlets called an Exodus.

Tonight Exodus at last, some 70,000 people who have been stuck at Burning Man are now slowly

being allowed to leave. I don't want to be mean about this. But also, I feel like it's kind of hard

not to be mean about Burning Man in general. Jacobi, is this a story you followed?

No, it is not because the minute I saw sort of alleged, what's the word I'm looking for,

groomer, diplo, and not that funny Chris Rock sort of hitchhiking away out. I sort of had this,

you get what you deserve, get what you pay for, type of mentality. But it did make me look and ask

the question, okay, what the hell is Burning Man? Because I hear it every year. But I never had a

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