#106 Games (Part 2)

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Comedy, History, Education

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

Come with us, as we roll the dice and shoot a podcasting bullseye as today we’re discussing: games. We’ve got a brief history of chess, the game of life (as in, the board game) and.. the word gams dvlopd by a collction of Frnch xperimental writrs in tha 60s.

And why on earth did we as a civilisation take so long to get round to inventing the bicycle? And why were the bicycle prototypes so bad? And has anyone else ever been to the Segway Olympics? Questions we’re desperate for you to answer, which you can do at: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of, oh, what a time early and ad-free.
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0:08.8	I'm John Robbins, and joining me on How Do You Coke this week is the musician and actor Will Oldham,
0:14.3	otherwise known as Bonnie Prince Billy.
0:16.3	You know, anything that makes life bearable is so precious, right?
0:21.7	Anything at all that makes life bearable is so precious.
0:24.7	And so it was just like, okay, look smaller, look smaller, look smaller, look smaller, look smaller,
0:29.6	you know, use a microscope to find the things that make life bearable.
0:33.2	So that's how do you cope with me, John Robbins.
0:35.5	Find us wherever you get your podcasts.
0:39.1	My dive buddy just kind of started like whacking me underwater and then he didn't know how to
0:43.7	tell me that there's a shark. So he's trying to scream shark. And then eventually you just went
0:47.3	with singing the Jaws theme tune. Hello, I'm Hannah Stiffle and I host a podcast called Oceans Life Underwater.
0:55.8	If you haven't listened before and you're interested in the fascinating world of turtles and whales,
1:00.8	then we might just be your new favourite podcast.
1:04.2	To join us, just search for Oceans Life Underwater, wherever you're listening to this.
1:10.0	Hello and welcome to part two of games.
1:13.1	Let's go on with the show.
1:25.6	Right. How do you recover from one man's decision to grow a beard?
1:32.3	Now, this was the big problem.
1:34.3	Is this a reference to me at university?
1:35.9	No.
	...

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