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. Listen wherever you get your podcast.

WB.EZ is supported by Chicago Humanities, presenting its spring festival on April 27th in Lakeview

with historians Heather Cox Richardson and Timothy Snyder,

Jonathan Blitzer on Immigration,

University of Chicago Professor Agnes Collard on Socrates,

and documentaries Unblocked Englewood by Chicago's Tanika Lewis Johnson,

and Beyond Closure on the 2013 Chicago Public School closures. Tickets and more conversations on arts,

culture, and current affairs at chicagohumanities.org.

From WBEZ Chicago, this is NERD. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend.

Coming up, we are going to play a burden or delight with two of my most favorite people.

Never a burden, always a delight. But first, I want to introduce you to an upcoming segment that I

am super excited about. Do you ever wish that you could call a chef for help when you fuck up in the

kitchen?

Like last week, I had this plan to make a batch of cookies,

and I realized too late that I only had 160 grams of like white cane sugar left

when the recipe called for 200 grams.

Luckily, I had three other types of sugar, but what would be best?

Powdered sugar, brown sugar, or turbinato

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