Episodes
Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
Episode 12: New Sports
Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
What better way to celebrate a years’ worth of episodes than a discussion of sports that no one has ever heard of? (For once it’s not just us!) But first, Emily, Ken and Mary Jo discuss “domes” the way aliens visiting Earth might discuss, well, anything—and Mary Jo tells us all about her “sport bar” experience. In our lightning round, what sports would our hosts play if they were each forced into compulsory sports service?
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Episode 11: Men's Gridiron Football
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Sports fanatic Christy joins the show as a special guest with a difficult assignment: convincing us to like football. Will we intercept her passionate arguments with inane questions and nonsensical suggestions for improving the sport? In a word, yes. Will one of those questions also keep her up at night for days on end? Also yes. In our lightning round, what should be a sport but isn't?
Thursday Dec 13, 2018
Episode 10: The World Series
Thursday Dec 13, 2018
Thursday Dec 13, 2018
‘Tis the season for…baseball! Emily, Ken and Mary Jo go deep into left field on baseball’s crazy rules, bizarre turns of phrase and dorky obsession with stats. We theorize about why the World Series escaped literally everyone’s notice and why baseball is only popular with the olds. Then: can we name a single professional baseball player who isn’t retired or dead (and no, we swear we did not cause Joe Mauer’s retirement)? In our lightning round, in what sport do we most want to see the coach have to wear the same uniform as the team?
Thursday Nov 15, 2018
Episode 9: Teams
Thursday Nov 15, 2018
Thursday Nov 15, 2018
If your favorite team gets all new players, a new coach, and a new logo--and then moves away--is it still your favorite team? Of course it is. WTH is wrong with you?? We share our theories. Then, what did one professional sports team do to earn Emily’s eternal wrath? In our lightning round, find out what made Ken almost want to watch a high school football game.
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Bonus episode: La Réparation des Pneus
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Remember our Le Tour de France episode? Emily really screwed the pooch on that one, so Ben returns to make sure we true our wheels. He explains everything we got wrong—from the winner to the team owners to the stuffed animal—and everything entre. In our lightning round, we quiz poor Ken on how many players are on the field in different team sports (spoiler alert: He gets one right).
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Episode 8: The WNBA
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
With Mary Jo trapped in a disciplinary meeting with Linda from HR, Ken, Emily and pinch hitter (or is it pitch hitter? We’ll never know!) Ben share interesting sports news of the week. In our deep dive topic, we chat with a special guest about what sets the WNBA apart from the MNBA (hint: it’s the gender of the players). What are the dumbest and most pretentious sports terms? We reveal our pet peeves in the lightning round.
Thursday Sep 13, 2018
Episode 7: Le Tour de France
Thursday Sep 13, 2018
Thursday Sep 13, 2018
On a Very Special 3rd and 40, Ken reveals some deeply personal sports news that will make fans of Ken say “aww.” In our “bad Wikipedia” segment, Emily incorrectly answers the most basic questions about Le Tour de France and we cringe over the use of stuffed animals in sports. What’s more boring than watching men ride bicycles on TV? We take turns answering that question in our lightning round.
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Episode 6: The World Cup
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
It’s our half year anniversary, so we start the show with a segment on errors and omissions—turns out we got a few things wrong! Next, World Cup fever sickened people around the globe this summer and prompted us to ask whether we need so many “world” events. In our slow-moving lightning round, how do people get their sports knowledge without book learning?
Wednesday Jul 11, 2018
Episode 5: The Kentucky Derby
Wednesday Jul 11, 2018
Wednesday Jul 11, 2018
Emily, Mary Jo and Ken discuss how sports touched their lives this week--sometimes in embarrassing ways. An in-depth discussion of the Kentucky Derby follows, in which the hosts ponder important questions such as why racing fans don't use face paint. In the lightning round, practical phrases to wield when someone tries to talk to you about sports.
Tuesday Jun 12, 2018
Episode 4: The Stanley Cup, sort of
Tuesday Jun 12, 2018
Tuesday Jun 12, 2018
Emily, Mary Jo and Ken respond to listener mail about Emily's taxonomy; the hosts attempt to discuss the Stanley Cup, but after realizing they don't know who's in it the conversation shifts to hockey moms; each host shares his/her personal (sometimes too personal) team name ideas.