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 WBEZ Chicago. Join me as I share how the genre

began, their social impact, and why these stories endure. Listen wherever you get your podcast.

WB.EZ is supported by Chicago Humanities, presenting its spring festival on April 27th in Lakeview

with historians Heather Cox Richardson and Timothy Snyder,

Jonathan Blitzer on Immigration,

University of Chicago Professor Agnes Collard on Socrates,

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Hey, y'all, you may have heard the news that this week, WBEZ announced that they are

laying people off and canceling some podcasts.

And unfortunately, that includes Nerdat.

But we are not going away just yet for the next month or so.

We are going to keep doing what we love, which means bringing you nerd at.

So here you go.

All right, from WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it.

We made it to another weekend. Coming up, we are going to unpack the prevalence of the lady leg lock in action movies. There's no sex in these movies anymore. But what we have instead is something that

brings that to mind, but is also only entirely about the context of violence. But first,

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