The Winter Olympics are well underway and suddenly your feet is thronged with terms that only seem to get trotted out every four years.

Monobobb, kiss and cry, triple cork, Salcow.

We've got thoughts from an avid Olympics watcher and we're checking in with an NPR reporter who's covering the games in Italy.

Whether it's butt on the couch or feet on the ground, we've got you covered.

I'm Linda Holmes.

And I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about the 2026 Winter Olympics on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

Joining us today is NPR General Assignment reporter Rachel Treesman.

She's covering the Olympics in Milan as figure skating correspondent. Hey, Rachel, welcome in. Thank you. Great to be here. It's great to have you. Okay, so we should note that we're taping this on the morning of Wednesday, February 18th. So there are some big results we don't yet know. And look, we can't possibly get to everything. So we might not talk about your favorite sport or event today. Linda, I've known you for a while. I know when the Olympics come around,

you go all in. You're on track to watch some of every sport this year. What are your overall thoughts

from 30,000 feet? The panopticon view of these Olympics was a home viewer.

You know, I did with the summer Olympics a few years ago, I did watch every sport in the Summer

Olympics and then wrote about what I had learned about them.

The Winter Olympics are a little bit different because the number of events, the number of

metal events is much smaller.

The scope is smaller.

The Summer Olympics, I think, have much more of a, like, over here, it's people

sword fighting. Over here, it's people riding horses or running really fast or throwing things

or swimming. And it kind of has a massiveness to it that the Winter Olympics don't quite have.

The Winter Olympics, to me, are a little bit more on a few tracks. And there are

exceptions, but you have your kind of big team sports, you're curling in hockey, and you have all

your skating, you have sliding down a track really fast, which is all your luge and bobsled

and things like that, and then you have your skiing. And there's a few other things and

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