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 WB EZ Chicago.

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

Listen wherever you get your podcast.

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

Coming up, we're going to talk to Jesse Neeland about their new book, Body Neutral, a revolutionary guide to overcoming body image issues. It's almost like seeing through the matrix. You're like,

I now realize that my parents or, you know, my sister or my friends are just constantly talking about

weight loss or constantly complimenting appearance.

And like, there comes a point where you're like, I have a better way.

But first, let's unwind from the week that was with a couple of excellent humans with me this

week.

We have Aaron Allen, host of the WBEEZ Daily News Podcast, The Rundown.

Erin, welcome back. Thank you. Happy to be here. Yay. Also with us is Adora Namigadee, Metro

reporter at WBEZ. Adora, glad to have you back as well. It is a pleasure.

Oh, yay. Okay. So this week, we are going to introduce a new ridiculous game. We have decided to call it burden or delight.

And it's exactly how it sounds.

We're going to tell you about a news story from the week.

And then you can tell us if you think it would be a burden or a delight.

So first up, we have a story about a family in Los Angeles who discovered approximately one million pennies in the crawl space

of a family member who recently died. We did the math so you don't have to. That would be worth

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