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.

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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerd Ed.

I'm Greta Johnson, and it is once again Friday, somehow, already in May.

Coming up, I'm going to talk with two people from the Apple TV Plus show Mythic Quest.

I'm sure that most workplaces have this idea of like, our workplace is so zany. Someone should do a show about us.

Only they're right. But first, it is the week that was with two excellent panelists. First up,

we have writer, comedian, and host of the Galaxy Brains podcast, Dave Schilling. Dave, hey. Hello,

thanks for having me. Oh my gosh. Thanks for coming down. Not that you had to leave anywhere at all, really. Yeah, I am in my pajamas. My camera is not on for Zoom because it is just like,

it's a horror show of my chest hair popping out and I'm wearing flip-flops. It's disgusting.

Well, thank you for painting that picture. Really glad to have you. Also with us, we have WB.EZ

politics reporter Mariah Wolfel. Mariah, hello. Hey, Greta. Are you in pajamas? You know, I had to,

I had to drop my dog off at the vet this morning, so I had to put on real pants, unfortunately.

I'm so sorry to hear that. Thank you. No, it's, yeah, it's been a hard, it's been a hard morning,

you know? Okay, so, um, as we do many weeks, I think we should start with COVID and the idea of herd immunity,

which essentially the times this week was like, yeah, no, it's not going to happen.

Mariah, you've done a fair amount of reporting on the pandemic in general and around vaccines.

Can I put you on the spot and ask you to explain what herd immunity is?

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