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Show Notes
- Ben watches weird sports, Josh makes the wrong cookies, video games aren’t as hard as they used to be back when we walked to school barefoot in the snow. Plus: child car seats are as worthless as an ashtray on a motorbike, but never shake a baby (Superfreakonomics book review).
- Intro (0:00-7:18)
- The Long Tail (7:18-42:02)
- Read the original article by Chris Anderson, October 2004
- Weird sports Ben watches:
- Magic: The Gathering (obv.):
- Marble racing: Jelle’s Marble Runs
- Disc golf: Jomez Pro
- Bouldering: International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC)
- Soap box racing: Red Bull Soapbox Race(s)
- Japanese game shows: Slippery Stair Climbing
- Sumo wrestling: Jason’s All Sumo Channel
- Software as a service
- Marty McFly finds out Western Union is reliable (it was 70 years, not 100)
- Bad at Husbanding/Parenting (42:02-1:10:24)
- Bad at English (1:10:24-1:13:05)
- Superfreakonomics book review (1:13:05-end)
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