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.

Here we are upon another weekend.

Nice work getting through the week, everybody.

Coming up, Shamir tells us about his new album, heterosexuality.

As a black queer person, I feel like people are so quickly to demonize me, even though I don't do anything to anyone.

Plus, our nerdy jobs series continues.

I'm a big Excel geek and also did a lot of data analysis for my day job,

and that is definitely something that played into designing a deck of 170 cards that are actually based on real bird characteristics.

But first, we're going to take a moment to chat about all the weird and wonderful things from the week that was.

With us today, we have the hosts of the Slate Podcast, I see YMIMI, Rachel Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher.

Welcome back, you two.

Hello.

Hi.

Thanks for having us.

Okay, so let's start with the Winter Olympics.

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