Maybe We SHOULD Cancel The Culture

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Texas and Mississippi are reopening. Cancel culture IS a thing. Also, have you ever imagined Helen Mirren smoking weed? We unpack the week that was with Leigh Bardugo and Emily Graslie. Plus, Anna Malaika Tubbs joins us to talk about the mothers of three civil rights icons. AND Sherry Turkle stops by to discuss her new memoir.

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0:00.0	This fall, WBEZ invites you to our upcoming live events.
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0:17.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad, I'm Greta Johnson.
0:21.0	It is another Friday in the year 2021, and we have a heck of a show for you today.
0:27.0	We are going to hear from Anna Malika Tubbs, author of the three mothers,
0:31.0	about the mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, and Malcolm X.
0:36.0	Then we'll hear from Sherry Terkel about her new memoir, The Empathy Diaries.
0:40.0	But first, it's our panel about the week that was.
0:43.0	With us today, we have best-selling fantasy author Lee Bardugo.
0:47.0	Her newest book is The Second in the King of Scars series,
0:50.0	and it comes out later this month.
0:52.0	And the Netflix adaptation of her YA book, Shadow and Bone,
0:55.0	comes out in April, Lee. Hello.
0:58.0	Hello. Happy to be here.
1:00.0	Yay, thank you. And we also have Emily Grassley, executive producer and host
1:03.0	of PBS's prehistoric Road Trip and creator of the YouTube series, The Brain Scoop.
1:08.0	Emily, hello.
1:10.0	Hi, I'm delighted to be here.
1:12.0	Oh my gosh, we are delighted to have you.
1:14.0	Okay, so as we do many weeks, I think we got to start with COVID.
1:18.0	The news this week is that we are inching closer to the one-year anniversary
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