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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 evenize me, even though I don't do anything to anyone.

Plus, our nerdy jobs series continues.

I'm a big Excel geek, and I 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.C.Y. and I, 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.

I don't know about y'all, but I feel like this is like the fifth Olympics that we've had since the pandemic started.

Just because what is time?

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