Nerdette
Nerdette is a weekly interview show that helps you unwind with fun conversations, inspiring ideas, and delightful recommendations. And join us every month for the Nerdette Bookclub!
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 634
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2024
Power Up: Grace Bonney
In 2016, Grace Bonney spoke with 100 women doing creative work and turned those interviews into a book, In the Company of Women. It became a New York Times bestseller, and earlier this month, Bonney…
00:21:01 |
Fri 18 May 2018
Unwinding With The Kondabolu Brothers
We brought brothers Hari and Ashok Kondabolu on Nerdette to talk about making time for self-care in what can be a grinding, freelance economy. Instead, they unpacked their relationship. “Do you look…
00:25:34 |
Fri 11 May 2018
How To Kill Time In Space
Near the end of STS-125, NASA’s final space shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope back in 2009, bad weather in Florida initially stopped the seven-member team from returning to Earth. The two…
00:19:45 |
Fri 04 May 2018
Power Up: Amy Schumer And Aidy Bryant
Let’s be real: life can be hectic sometimes. You don’t need to tell that to Amy Schumer and Aidy Bryant, two of the nation’s top female comedians. Who better to kick off our new project, Power Up? F…
00:18:27 |
Fri 27 Apr 2018
Power Up: A New Project From Nerdette
Here at Nerdette we’ve been thinking a lot about how much the world can wear us down. Which has led us to a very important question: How do so many successful, inspiring people have the time and ener…
00:02:46 |
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Tomi Adeyemi Calls Her New Book ‘Black Panther With Magic’
Tomi Adeyemi is the 24-year-old author of 'Children of Blood and Bone,' a new young adult novel that — in terms of pop culture blockbusters — could be on par with 'The Hunger Games' or 'Harry Potter.…
00:34:36 |
Fri 16 Mar 2018
I Have A Rare Genetic Disease. CRISPR Might Fix It.
As a four-year old in Juneau, Alaska, Nerdette host Greta Johnsen was diagnosed with an eye condition known as "Best disease." That name is a misnomer for several reasons — the big one being that "Be…
00:31:39 |
Fri 09 Mar 2018
Anna Deavere Smith Takes You To Prison
Anna Deavere Smith might be best known for her acting roles on NBC’s The West Wing and Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. But she’s also one of the most prolific playwrights of “documentary-style theater,” whe…
00:30:52 |
Fri 02 Mar 2018
How To Be Aggressively Delightful
If you’re looking for a way to combat the online trolls and bots fomenting unrest in the U.S., comedian Negin Farsad might have a solution for you. “I guess if I were to name it, it’s a philosophy ca…
00:28:56 |
Fri 23 Feb 2018
How A Creative Boss Gets It Done
Ilene Chaiken has been a showrunner for TV hits like Fox’s Empire, an executive producer for Hulu’s The Handmaid's Tale, and a writer, producer, and director for Showtime’s The L Word in the mid-2000…
00:24:42 |
Fri 16 Feb 2018
Feminism, Fear, And Physics At The Winter Olympics
Olympians and experts on the science of fear, the physics of sliding down ice super duper fast, and the feminist fight to get women into more sports.
00:27:18 |
Fri 09 Feb 2018
Sex, Drugs, And Singing Ovaries
When Teresa Woodruff started working for a biotech company fresh out of graduate school, her employer revealed that the first studies for a new heart attack treatment had been performed on 50,000 men…
00:25:03 |
Fri 02 Feb 2018
Why Does John Hodgman Like Malört So Much?
Comedian John Hodgman, longtime fan of the lovingly-reviled Swedish spirit called Malört, tells Nerdette, “I’m fascinated with things that are still regional in an increasingly non-regional country.”…
00:29:16 |
Fri 08 Dec 2017
Pulitzer-Winner Jennifer Egan Almost Abandoned ‘Manhattan Beach’
Jennifer Egan won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. Her most recent novel, Manhattan Beach, was among 10 works of fiction long-listed for the 2017 National Book Awar…
00:27:39 |
Fri 01 Dec 2017
Author Margaret Atwood Says ‘The Harvey Weinstein Moment’ Will Last
“I think it’s going to last more than a moment,” said the celebrated author on this week’s Nerdette. “But how much more than a moment, it remains to be seen." Nerdette co-host Greta Johnsen talks wi…
00:26:03 |
Wed 22 Nov 2017
Daveed Diggs Does All The Things
Daveed Diggs says starring in the hit musical Hamilton opened a lot of doors for him. One of those doors? Meeting hip hop legend Busta Rhymes. “Like, I can text Busta Rhymes right now. That? That is …
00:27:53 |
Fri 17 Nov 2017
Eve Ewing On Prince, Afrofuturism And Sweaters
Knitting can be dangerous. Just ask author, scholar, and (of course) knitter Eve Ewing. She explains what she calls “the sweater curse” to Nerdette hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen. They also di…
00:31:47 |
Fri 10 Nov 2017
SCOTUS Edition: Muppets V. Supreme Court Justices
In her seminal work on 'Muppet Theory,' Slate reporter Dahlia Lithwick once wrote that "every living human" can be categorized as either a Chaos Muppet or an Order Muppet. On this super-special Supre…
00:32:00 |
Fri 03 Nov 2017
‘Call Your Girlfriend’ Hangs With ‘Nerdette’ Podcast
Like the Flintstones meeting the Jetsons, Betty and Veronica taking down the Predator alien, and Sabrina the teenage witch dating Eric Matthews on Boy Meets World, nothing beats an epic crossover. Th…
00:30:40 |
Fri 27 Oct 2017
Jane The Virgin’s Yael Grobglas Meets Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli
It’s a "dinner and a TV show" kind of night for Nerdette this week. We talk to Jane the Virgin actress Yael Grobglas about what it’s like to play your own twin and creating a villain who people love …
00:29:35 |
Thu 19 Oct 2017
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