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 Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, we've heard Fall TV is going to be full of reality shows because of the writers and actors' strikes. But reality TV is facing a reckoning of its own.

I do not have the idiot guide to starting a union in one day that I will learn quickly. But first, it's our chance to sit back and unwind from the week with two excellent humans.

With us today, we have Anne Helen Peterson, the host of the Crooked Media podcast Work Appropriate,

who writes the Culture Study newsletter.

And hello.

It is a pleasure to be here.

Oh my gosh, it's a pleasure to have you. Also here is Vulture's podcast critic, Nick Kwa. Nick, hello. Hello, we're alive. Incredible. Incredible.

Okay, so before we get to the stories that y'all actually prepared for, I have a very strange

and very quick, like, fake pop quiz, which is this week, the Washington Post wrote a feature about

the official Guinness Book Record Holder for the world's oldest living chicken.

She's at a farm in Michigan.

Her name is Peanut.

How old is she and what is her favorite breakfast?

Anne, what do you think?

Okay.

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