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,

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From WVEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, Cameron Jones talks about playing Tiffany in the Amazon Prime Show Paper Girls about a squad of time-traveling teenagers. When we do explore the 80s, we don't romanticize it or just focus on the nostalgia. Like, we go into the racism. We go into the homophobia. We go into the sexism. But first, let's kick back, relax, and talk about the

week that was with two excellent humans with us today. We have the hosts of the NPR show Code Switch,

Gene Demby and BA Parker. Gene Parker, welcome. What's good. Thank you for having us.

Hi, thanks.

Oh, my gosh. Thrilled to have you.

So I think we should start with the moon launch.

This week, NASA had to delay its Artemis 1 mission because of some technical issues.

They're going to try again this weekend.

We are taping this on Thursday before their second attempt.

This is part of a series of missions to

eventually have people on the moon. What really caught my attention about the story is that there

hasn't actually been a human on the moon since 1972, which kind of blows my mind. Did you know that,

Parker? No, because in my brain, I think of the Even Stevens song.

It was like, we went to the moon in 1969, and I just didn't get past that, so I know nothing about these 70s.

Then we recently have like a whole conversation about moon poop.

Like, am I, am I bugging?

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