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: 

• Family Defense Practicum at Main Street Legal Services (write "Family Defense Practicum" in the Additional Comments section) 
• Anseye Pou Haiti 
• Haitian Education Leadership Program 

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