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. Listen wherever you get your podcast.

WBEZ is supported by Chicago Humanities, presenting its spring festival on April 27th in Lakeview

with historians Heather Cox Richardson and Timothy Snyder,

Jonathan Blitzer on Immigration,

University of Chicago professor Agnes Collard on Socrates,

and documentaries Unblocked Englewood by Chicago's Tanika Lewis Johnson,

and Beyond Closure on the 2013 Chicago Public School closures. Tickets and more conversations

on arts, culture, and current affairs at Chicago Humanities.org.

From WBEEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up,

we will hear another installment from our nerdy job series. I almost say like whenever you animate

something correctly at this, but like you're kind of like playing God. It's like, look at this little

creature I made and I made him dance. But first, we are going to jump right into an interview with someone you probably already

know.

Her name is Aisha Harris.

And she has been on the show before.

She is one of the co-hosts of the NPR podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour.

And from a young age, pop culture has helped Ayesha figure out who she was.

Sometimes I look back and I'm like, it was really all those hours I spent sitting in front

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