Ode to Pets!
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English - March 31, 2020 08:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsSociety & Culture Arts Books wbez pop culture nerdette nerd nerds books self improvement Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sure, lots of celebrities are hosting conversations and table reads on social media these days. But author and actor John Hodgman has been hanging out on Instagram Live for months already, interviewing random humans and their pets, in a show he calls … wait for it … “Get Your Pets.”
Nerdette host Greta Johnsen talks to Hodgman about why he thinks “Get Your Pets” is maybe, actually some of the most important work he’s done.
Plus, we hear from you about some of the creatures keeping you company these days.