I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,

soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,

Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.

Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.

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From WVEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, Emily St. John Mandel is going to tell us about her new book, Sea of Tranquility.

We keep coming back to the multiverse. I feel like we need to make this happen in a more official way.

Plus, we'll get some context around the Amazon workers who voted to unionize last week. And the fact that they were not only able to win, but win when established unions haven't been able to have a victory like this yet is a really big deal.

But first, we're going to check in with two excellent humans about some stuff they're digging

these days.

With us today, we have Delia Kai.

She's a staff writer for Vanity Fair.

Delia, welcome.

Hello. Thank you so much for having me.

Thanks for coming on. We also have Vulture Podcast critic Nick Kwa. Nick, welcome back.

Hello, hello.

Okay, so this is kind of a weird pop culture news week. It kind of feels like everything is just a huge bummer or just like eerily quiet, which I feel like sort of fits with the general

vibe at least here in Chicago, which is like, will it snow tomorrow? Who can say? So we figured

it might be nice to just load listeners up with a bunch of ideas for stuff to watch and read

and do during when I'm kind of calling like the doldrums of spring.

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