Nerdette
Nerdette is a interview show that helps you unwind with fun conversations, inspiring ideas, and delightful recommendations.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 640
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2024
Why You Should Build Literally Anything
We talk with Emily Pilloton, author of Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See, about representation, being your own repair person and it's importan…
00:25:40 |
Tue 23 Jun 2020
It's Tidy Time
For the last few weeks, our “Introvert’s Guide to the Good Life” series has been all about helping you find ways to enrich your perhaps-more-than-usual indoors-based life.
Today, we talk to Pooja N…
00:17:02 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
Got Plants?
For the last few weeks, our “Introvert’s Guide to the Good Life” series has been all about helping you find ways to enrich your perhaps-more-than-usual indoors-based life.
Today, we talk to plant ex…
00:15:50 |
Tue 16 Jun 2020
Brit Bennett On Transgressing Racial Identity In ‘The Vanishing Half’
Greta talks with Brit Bennett, the author of this month’s Nerdette Book Club selection, The Vanishing Half, which just climbed to the top of The New York Times bestselling fiction list amid nationwid…
00:28:20 |
Fri 12 Jun 2020
What Can I Do?
It’s a question a lot of people are asking right now. So we
talk with author and activist
Kate Schatz
about how white people can have constructive conversations with each other about racism in …
00:26:31 |
Tue 09 Jun 2020
Books To Read Right Now
Widespread protests against police brutality have led many white people to ask how they can better understand the systems behind the disparities in our society.
There are dozens of great resources o…
00:25:52 |
Fri 05 Jun 2020
Take A Minute
We think you could use some joy and calm right now. So we’re taking a moment to take some deep breaths. Then, we’ll listen back to part of our delightful 2017 interview with Tom Hanks.
See Privacy…
00:17:57 |
Tue 02 Jun 2020
Book Club: ‘The City We Became’
What if cities were embodied in human beings? If The Bronx were a human, what would she be like? And why is xenophobia so toxic?
Listen along as Nerdette host Greta Johnsen discusses 'The City We B…
00:58:38 |
Fri 29 May 2020
Video Games For Noobs
There are so many video game options that it can be hard to know where to begin. Which is why Nerdette host Greta Johnsen enlisted the assistance of Samantha Nelson, who writes about video games for …
00:18:53 |
Mon 25 May 2020
What To Do With All That Anxiety
Greta talks with grief counselor Claire Bidwell Smith about how anxiety is part of grieving and how grieving is now part of everyday life. Plus what you can do with all those anxious thoughts.
See …
00:21:27 |
Fri 22 May 2020
Exercise: Come On! Let’s Do It!
Have you been exercising lately? No shame if you haven't! But ... personal trainer Sarah Gonsiorowski of The Lunge Ladies has some ideas to get your body moving. We also hear about some great apps an…
00:20:33 |
Tue 19 May 2020
Book Club: A Not-Too-Spoilery Convo With Sci-Fi Author N.K. Jemisin
How does one deal with existential horror from beyond? That’s one question at the heart of The City We Became, a new novel from Hugo Award-winning author N.K. Jemisin, in which New York City literall…
00:36:10 |
Fri 15 May 2020
TV You Gotta Watch
TV! We need it, you probably need it, and New York Times TV critic Margaret Lyons has it!
Lyons tells us about four great new TV shows — each of which fits into that “Just-feed-it-to-me-like grapes…
00:21:57 |
Tue 12 May 2020
Should You Cut Your Own Hair?
When Nerdette listeners told us last week what they would have done with a warning before stay-at-home orders, haircuts were top of mind. But is an at-home haircut ever a good idea?
Nerdette host Gr…
00:16:20 |
Tue 05 May 2020
What Was On Your Pre-Pandemic Wish List?
If you had a one-week pre-stay-at-home warning, what would you have done? This episode is filled with your pre-pandemic wish lists, from spending time with loved ones to buying nail polish to dancing…
00:15:00 |
Fri 01 May 2020
The Online Dating Scene
In the middle of a pandemic, dating might be the last thing on your mind. But some singles are feeling more isolated now than ever, and some of them want to do something about it. We talk with two da…
00:15:35 |
Tue 28 Apr 2020
Book Club: ‘You Never Forget Your First’
Are you ready for a fresh look at George Washington and his many foul diseases? You've come to the right place!
Nerdette host Greta Johnsen joins Lulu Miller, co-creator of NPR's Invisibilia podcas…
00:37:24 |
Fri 24 Apr 2020
Music You Can Use-ic
There’s never a bad time to expand your musical horizons, and mid-pandemic is no exception. So we got ahold of Jill Hopkins, host of The Morning AMP at Vocalo, Chicago’s urban alternative radio stati…
00:21:41 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Book Club: Author Alexis Coe On George Washington
We’ve all heard the mythology around George Washington: He never told a lie! He had wooden teeth! There was a cherry tree that one time!
But in her new biography, You Never Forget Your First, histor…
00:19:21 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Podcasts To Help Cool Your Jets
We check in with podcast nerd Nick Quah to hear about some of the podcasts that can help you use your imagination, cook a meal and maybe even better yourself. And of course, we’ll get some pod recomm…
00:22:43 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
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