This week is a special episode with lawyer and sports podcast host James Hirsh who recently competed against Kevin Kodama on Jeopardy! We talked about their experience on the show and sports in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Hope you enjoy!
TIMESTAMPS:
0:14 - Introduction
0:30 - Was the Jeopardy experience as expected
2:18 - Jeopardy was more fun than expected
4:02 - Anything especially nerve-wracking about Jeopardy
7:05 - Daily Double strategy
13:41 - Lack of sports in SFF
17:41 - Sports in SFF normally involve actual death
21:16 - Sports will have to reckon with continued advances in technology
27:13 - Sports need to be willing to change incrementally
27:40 - Conclusion and Recommendation of “1984 and Beyond” Playboy Magazine Interview (Unfortunately was unable to find this online but it appears in Playboy’s July 1963 issue)
29:35 - Start of Synthesized Sunsets Backstage
31:47 - Kevin got along well with Ken Jennings
34:06 - Lowbrow culture doesn’t really appear in SFF
35:27 - SFF stories, even futurist ones, don’t have modern economies
39:11 - Hockey does a great job of crafting a good watching experience through its rules
41:21 - MMA is more strategic than might be expected
45:26 - Recommendation of “Heretics” by GK Chesterton
