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 and in a whole new year, no less. We have a fun show for you this week. We're going to hear from someone who literally wrote the book about fun.

If you want to have fun, you've got to be okay, sucking. I didn't put that expression in the book, but that would be a takeaway.

Plus, we take a journey to the 1.8 million degree edge of the sun.

This is exploration. We are venturing to a medium that we never visited before.

And whatever observations we are making there, it's a potential discovery. But first, it's our panel on all the

weird and wonderful things that happen this week. First up, we have the senior producer for

WBEsie's talk show, Reset. Meha Ahmad. Meha, hello. Hey, Greta. And WBEZ Metro reporter Adora

Namiga Day. Adora, welcome back. Thank you very much for having me.

Okay, so I think we should start with winter weather because the Mid-Atlantic got hit. They saw

such a crazy storm earlier this week. Northern Virginia got as many as 14 inches. As you can imagine,

this like completely wreaked havoc all over, especially on freeways. Hundreds of people were

stuck on I-95, like in their

cars. There were jackknife trucks, hundreds of other accidents. People were stuck for as many as

24 hours. Here's how one woman described the scene on TikTok. These are the people currently

next to me. They're passed out in their car. That's just an old man getting

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