246! Inventing New Sports

Thank you for the love and support you've shown us in light of Alain's passing. If you want to make a donation in Alain's memory, his family suggested they be made to the following organizations: 

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Typically, we close the year with our Wild Prognostications year in review, instead, we just wanted to leave you with a light-hearted episode to counter the heaviness with a bit of whimsy. …

When did we stop inventing sports? 

This episode, Aaron, Joey, and Jess talk about Cher, sports, spectators, Esports, cyberwarfare, and The Ocho. They don’t talk about the Techno Parrot. 

references 

• I Hope You Dance with the Scatman 

• Echolalia 

• Channeling Emerson 

• Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow 

• Battlestar Galactica's Pyramid 

• Pickleball 

• Quidditch (real-life sport) 

• Mayan Ball Game 

• Calvinball 

• Jai alai 

• Armada by Ernest Cline 

• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 

• ESPN8 The Ocho 

• блядь 

• North Figueroa Bookshop 

• This Is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves 

• The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 

• Thank U