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 WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

I'm Tricia Bobita.

And I am Greta Johnson. And this week, we are talking

all about Sporks. Well, sports, actually. One of my favorite things about you, Greta Johnson,

is that once when you were live on the radio here at WBEZ, you meant to say, and now we turn

to sports. Yep. And you did. And I said sports. So in honor of the Olympics this week, we're

going to talk about sports balls. But really, there are very few balls involved. That's true.

And we don't normally talk about sports on Nerdette, but Nerdette is a show where we do talk to people

about their obsessions, people who are scientists and poets, astronauts and adventurers, people who

dare to ask big questions and explore the unknown.

And, you know, to be an Olympian takes a high level of obsession.

And the sports we're going to talk about today are super weird and interesting.

Like oddly specific sports. Like being really good at these sports is pretty nerdy.

Indeed. So the Olympics have begun. They are in South Korea. Tricia talked with

two lady Olympians. We have a ski jumper and a looser, right? Yes. And we're going to talk about

three things with them. Feminism, fear, and physics. The three Fs of the Winter Olympics. But physics

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