The USPS Is Not A Girl Boss And Neither Are You

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Amazingly, we have made it through another week. This one was all about women’s basketball, girl bosses, and the USPS… and the canceled shrimp guy, but we won’t get into that here. Niala Boodhoo, host of the Axios Today podcast, and Lauren Chooljian, who makes podcasts for New Hampshire Public Radio, join to unpack the week that was. Then, we talk to wellness writer Virginia Sole-Smith about what’s really going on with BMI. AND Rebecca Schuman stops by to talk about her recent article “Hamsterkauf! Coronazeit! There’s a German Word for Your Pandemic Experience.”

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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 Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson.
0:20.0	We made it to another Friday somehow.
0:23.0	Coming up, why BMI is more complicated than you might think?
0:27.0	It was never intended to measure health. It was never intended to be used as like a diagnostic tool to decide whether someone's healthier or not.
0:35.0	Plus, how the German language has adapted to include more than a thousand words to describe new COVID related experiences.
0:43.0	Germans are obsessed with precision. They want to be precise.
0:46.0	And so this demand for precision means that their appliances are very good.
0:51.0	Their cars are usually pretty great, and also their words are extraordinarily precise.
0:56.0	But first, it's our panel about the week that was with two excellent humans.
1:00.0	This week, we've got Nila Boudou, the host of the Axios today podcast. Nila, hey!
1:05.0	Hello! I'm so excited to be here.
1:07.0	Oh my gosh. So excited to have you. And we have Lauren Chulgin, who makes podcasts at New Hampshire Public Radio. Lauren, hey!
1:15.0	Hi, I am also extremely excited.
1:18.0	Yay! I'm so excited too.
1:21.0	So it has been a heck of a week, and it has not all been good news.
1:26.0	We saw another horrendous mass shooting this week, this time in Boulder, Colorado.
1:31.0	President Biden held his first news conference, and oddly enough, the guy who went viral for saying he found shrimp tails in his cinnamon toast crunch was canceled for abusive behavior.
1:40.0	Turns out we really can't have nice things.
1:43.0	On that note, we're going to shake things up a little this week and start with a sports ball story, which I think maybe has never happened in the history of Nardette.
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