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 Nerdad.

I'm Greta Johnson.

It is Tuesday, March 17th. Day two coming at you from the floor of my bedroom closet.

This is another edition of Nerdette's introverts guide to the good life.

I'll say it again. Times are weird, but there's plenty that you can do to help yourself and help others,

and that's what today's episode is all about. The first thing you can do may seem really small, and it's definitely super easy, but I promise it's going to go a long way. Call a friend.

Peter Sagle, how's it going?

Oh, it's going fine here in my fortune of solitude.

Or if a friend isn't handy, you can call wait, wait, don't tell me is Peter Segel?

Just kidding, Peter.

I do consider you a friend.

I just have a lot of fun giving you shit.

Anyway, the point is that now is a great time to call up family and friends and ask them how they're doing.

I'm doing fine. I'm lucky, I guess, in that wait-wait is going to continue to do shows.

I don't know if you were born when this happened, but when the show began, we used to do it in a studio, connected remotely, not face-to-face, to our panelists. And in kind of a, you know, in the same way that

baseball teams do retro uniforms, we're going back to that for the foreseeable future. So what that

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