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The ask all the kids at the pep rally who you think they are nerds to come forward.

So nearly everyone in the place does.

So the nerds won, yes.

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Yes.

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita.

And from W. Beasy in Chicago, this is Nurdette.

Coming up, public radio nerds know Will Shorts as the Puzzle Master.

But he also has another nerdy passion.

It's something he and comedian Judah Friedlander

also happened to have in common.

All that plus an epic Lord of the Rings confession.

Right here on Nurdett.

We didn't set out to do a whole episode about table tennis.

But I love it.

I grew up playing basement ping pong with my brother and my dad.

Most of my friends stopped playing with me when I got vaguely better than them.

So I petered out there at the end of high school because I hit one friend in the eye

with a ping pong ball with a pretty hard serve and

suddenly nobody wants to play anymore. So besides that and then a little time in

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