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 Nerdad. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend.

Coming up, The Doctor is in. Emily Landon, who we like to call our resident epidemiologist,

answers a lot of questions about navigating COVID this fall. But first, it is our chance to sit back and relax from the week that was with two excellent humans with us this week.

We have Jacoby Cochran, the host of Citicath, Chicago.

Jacoby, hello.

Morning, Greta.

Thank you for having me back.

Oh, my gosh.

Thanks for coming on.

Also here is WBEZ Metro reporter Adora Namigade Adora.

Hello.

Hello, how are you? I'm good. How are you?

Doing well. A little disgusted by what we're about to discuss, but. She just dropped COVID surge.

It was like, now let's talk about something else. I can't focus on anything else. Let's talk about something else and that something else is Burning Man in this instance.

Because the annual desert festival for Tech Bros flooded this year, prompting what many news outlets

called an Exodus.

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