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.

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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson.

We made it to another Friday somehow.

Coming up, why BMI is more complicated than you might think.

It was never intended to measure health. It was never intended to be used as like a diagnostic tool to decide whether someone's healthy or not. Plus, how the German language has adapted to include more than a thousand words to describe

new COVID-related experiences. Germans are obsessed with precision. They want to be precise.

And so this demand for precision means that their appliances are very good. Their cars are usually

pretty great. And also, their words are extraordinarily precise.

But first, it's our panel about the week that was with two excellent humans.

This week we've got Naila Boodoo, the host of the Axios Today podcast. Naila, hey.

Hello, I'm so excited to be here.

Oh, my gosh. So excited to have you.

And we have Lauren Chulgin who makes podcasts at New Hampshire Public Radio. Lauren. Hey. Hi. I am also extremely excited. Yay. I'm so excited too. So it has been a heck of a week. And it has not all been good news. We saw another horrendous mass shooting this week this time in Boulder,

Colorado. President Biden held his first news conference. And oddly enough, the guy who went viral

for saying he found shrimp tails in his cinnamon toast crunch was canceled for abusive behavior.

Turns out we really can't have nice things. On that note, we're going to shake things up a little this week

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