I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

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soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,

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Hey, y'all, Greta here. I just wanted to let you know we actually have an update to this

week's episode. We taped our conversation about Jeopardy's new host on

Thursday morning, and since then, you may have seen, Mike Richards has announced he will step down from hosting.

So even though part of the conversation you're about to hear is a little bit out of date,

it's still relevant enough to the news that we decided to keep it in this week's episode.

All right, that's it. Thanks.

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 talk to the delightful e-viewing about how she tapped into her inner kid to write her new middle grade novel, Maya and the robot.

All the things I am interested in are kind of like middle school interests.

And then I became a middle school teacher.

It's just weird to just be like, I just really want to play video games and read comic books and, you know, watch Jurassic Park and stuff like that.

But first, it's our panel on the week that was.

With us this week, we have Hunter Klaus.

He writes WBEZ's daily newsletter, The Run Down Hunter.

Hey.

Hey, Greta.

Thanks for having me out of the show.

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