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.

Are you all starting to feel a little stir crazy yet?

From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson, and who can really be sure what day it is?

I am still here coming at you from the floor of my bedroom closet.

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

Okay, for real, though, today is Wednesday.

It's March 18th. That means the new TV adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere is out today on Hulu, so I know what I'm going to be doing when I get out of this closet.

Today, we are all about gratitude because there are plenty of things that we could all be panicking about, but I just think it would be so much better if we could focus on some of the good stuff.

So some of you might remember on Monday, I read a tweet from the delightful Danielle Kurtzleben, who works on NPR's politics podcast team, because it brought me so much weird joy. I thought it would be fun to actually talk to Danielle for a second. So here she is.

Hello. Hello. How are you, Danielle? I'm good, I suppose. Right, given the circumstances. Okay, so as I told you on

Twitter, after the fact, I'm sorry, I didn't ask for your permission. In this podcast on Monday,

I read a tweet that you wrote because it was like my favorite piece of content about working from home

that I have yet seen.

Well, I mean, I put it out on Twitter.

You don't need my permission.

It's out there.

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