Vaccine FOMO? Don't Worry! All Your Social Skills Have Atrophied Anyway

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Vaccine FOMO, royal drama, and our own personal Grammys. We unpack the week that was with author Saeed Jones and host of NPR’s Embedded podcast Kelly McEvers. Then, Devon Price, a social psychologist and professor at Loyola University, debunks the lies we tell ourselves about laziness. (Spoiler alert: Laziness Does Not Exist.) Plus, Katie Heaney joins us from The Cut to talk about her recent article “I Forgot How To Hang Out.”

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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. It is here. It is Friday.
0:22.0	Coming up, I'm going to talk with sociologist Devon Price
0:25.0	about their book Laziness Does Not Exist.
0:27.0	One of the leading causes of feeling lazy is setting out to do too much.
0:32.0	And then some reassuring information for those of you who are terrified that you're hanging out.
0:37.0	Muscles have completely atrophied.
0:39.0	You're using more energy to project your voice through a mask and at a distance.
0:44.0	And that is tiring.
0:45.0	But first, it's our panel on the week that was with two excellent humans.
0:49.0	First up is the author of the Poetry Collection, Prelude to Bruce, and the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives.
0:55.0	Said Joan Said. Hi. Hi. Good morning.
0:58.0	I am so excited to have you on the show.
1:00.0	Oh, I'm so excited to be here.
1:02.0	So we also have one of my very favorite humans, Kelly McAvers,
1:06.0	the host of the NPR podcast embedded Kelly. Hi.
1:09.0	Hey.
1:10.0	Man, next time we hang out, it better be at a bar. That's all I'm saying.
1:14.0	Yep. Is that how we the only way we hang out until, like, break this moment?
1:18.0	Yeah. Pretty much. Wow. That is okay. Anyway.
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