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Fore Play

NASA Scientist Eric Smith, Golf Legend Annika Sörenstam, & Frankie’s Poem

Fore Play

Barstool Sports

Golf, Sports

4.610.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Two big guests. One big show. First, we’re joined by NASA’s program scientist for the James Webb Telescope, Eric Smith (51:54), to discuss the monumental project, exoplanets, life elsewhere, the origins of the universe, the challenges of pushing the boundaries of exploration and the physics of golf. Then, golf icon Annika Sörenstam (01:37:53) joins to discuss her signature swing move, the enormous achievements of the Annika Foundation, elevating women’s golf and much more. Plus. each crew-member reveals his 2022 golf goals.


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0:00.0

Hey four-play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple podcast, Spotify or YouTube.

0:06.6

Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon music.

0:09.9

Four-play, I'm so sorry, Barstool Sports. It is January 11th, 2022.

0:14.6

We have a huge show, two very important guests, and our very own Frankie Brelley is doing some ominous bit that we are not aware of.

0:22.0

Yet we have Eric Smith, who is the program scientist for the James Webb Telescope program from NASA,

0:28.8

who joins the show for nearly an hour, and we go through it all just as you would imagine.

0:33.6

And then we also have one of, if not the greatest, female golfer of all time,

0:38.8

one of the great golfers of all time, Anika Sorenstam on this very show.

0:42.0

So it's a huge one. We got the whole squad, myself Trent, Frankie and Lurch.

0:47.4

And we have a really just weird smile coming from Frankie.

0:50.4

Again, has been preparing for a recap of last week's golf tournament.

0:57.6

So, wait, before we get to that, I unfortunately had to miss the NASA, Eric Smith, I believe you said his name was interview.

1:05.6

I, people are obviously going to hear it, and I'm going to have to listen to it myself.

1:09.0

But just quickly, did it go the way that you guys thought it would, like we've talked a lot on this show.

1:14.2

We've had a lot of conversation. At times, this has been a space podcast, not necessarily a factual space podcast, but a space podcast.

1:22.0

Like sometimes I worry that you bring in an actual expert and he's just going to tell you that you're all wrong and that it's not nearly as interesting as that we hope that it would be.

1:31.6

Trent, this guy knows, he just knows stuff and he explained it particularly well.

1:38.0

And he understood because he listened to our last segment on the web telescope, which was a little bit revealing and kind of felt very vulnerable.

1:44.8

But overall, he was, I would say fantastic.

1:47.2

I'd say we got more into just how impressive it is of what they're about to do.

1:52.8

And a lot of the things, like when you're listening to this interview, and I get it, it's a golf podcast and we're talking about space.

1:59.4

And I'm sure there's going to be a lot of people that get mad.

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