4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still |
0:06.1 | watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you, |
0:12.7 | soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making, |
0:18.0 | Stories Without End from WB EZ Chicago. |
0:25.7 | Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure. |
0:28.3 | Listen wherever you get your podcast. |
0:35.3 | From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. |
0:39.5 | I'm Greta Johnson, and we made it to the last Friday in the month of February. |
0:47.8 | Coming up, I'm going to chat with a woman who has been waking up before sunrise every day to go swimming in a very cold Lake Michigan. |
0:51.2 | She says it's helping her get out of her pandemic funk. |
0:55.8 | If there's open water, we're swimming. You know, Deirdre will leap off of the ladder and she does 30 strokes out, 30 strokes back. So if we can swim, we swim. |
1:01.9 | Then we'll get a preview of awards season before the Golden Globes this weekend. But first, |
1:06.9 | it's our panel on the week that was with two very exciting guests. |
1:13.9 | First up, we have musician and author Dessa, Dessa. |
1:15.0 | Welcome back to Nodette. |
1:16.3 | Thanks for having me. |
1:21.0 | And the host of the public radio show Snap Judgment, Glenn Washington. |
1:21.9 | Glenn, hi. |
1:22.7 | Hey. |
1:31.0 | Okay, so I think we need to start this week, as we have with many weeks, by talking about the COVID pandemic, perhaps unsurprisingly. |
1:35.0 | This week, we hit a very grim milestone. |
1:38.6 | Half million people in the United States now have died of coronavirus. |
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