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 Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, the author of the memoir, Life on Other Planets, tells us about how she decided to start studying astrophysics, then got an MFA in acting, only to go back to her love of outer space a decade later. There was a way for it to be a both and or a yes and.

But first, it's our chance to sit back and unwind from the week that was with two

excellent humans with us this week.

We have the host of the New Hampshire Public Radio podcast, The 13th Step, Lauren

Chulgin.

Lauren, hello.

Hi, Greta.

Also here is the host of the Vox podcast, The Weeds, Junklin Hill.

JQ, hello.

Hello.

It's so good to be back.

Okay, so I have to ask.

I think we need to start with Barbenheimer just because it is a fascinating phenomenon.

And, JQ, I'm pretty sure.

Did you see both of them last weekend?

I did. I did the

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