9: Sports
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week, Susie and Sarah are getting sporty. We discuss Sarah's passion for sports, and why Susie gets a sitter's high instead. We talk about David Epstein's book, "The Sports Gene," and why he says if you were a slow kid, you'll be a slow adult. We also discuss why American kids tend to all play the same sports, and how some of us probably never tapped into our potential because we didn't get the chance to try more obscure athletic endeavors like fencing, swimming, and figure skating.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the Brain Candy Podcast. I'm Susie Meister. Hi, Sarah Rice. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome back. I'm Super Jack. Well, because I love today's topic. Oh, what is it? |
| 0:26.5 | He's topic is sport. No, not boo. That was supposed to sound more like that. That was |
| 0:37.8 | that sounded better. That was you just love that. I do. I just came back from the gym now. |
| 0:42.8 | So I'm like, so good. I'm pumped to. So, all right. Well, this is going to be like the odd |
| 0:46.9 | couple or whatever. I love this. This is the left brain right brain right here. Well, |
| 0:51.8 | what is sports? What brain is that? Well, for I don't know. That's a good question. I don't |
| 0:57.3 | need well. There's a lot of I mean, that's actually a really interesting question. I'm sure |
| 1:03.8 | sure. Yeah, we should have looked that up. Dang it. Have you ever played any sports, Susie? |
| 1:08.1 | Well, just the volleyball where I was most improved player. Oh, that's right. It's |
| 1:12.5 | improved better. It's just one year six grade. But you don't do anything like AYS Osakker when |
| 1:16.9 | you were little. Never. We were poor. And I was the youngest of five kids. So like, |
| 1:21.7 | yeah, my mom was worried about other things. Well, my mom was a single mom. So she used sports |
| 1:29.1 | as a babysitter. And I should have thought of that. Yeah, really? Because it was cheaper than a |
| 1:34.2 | babysitter. It was like $200 a semester to throw her in this or $200 a week to pay for an after-school |
| 1:41.6 | set-art. So you would go to like camps? Yeah, I did everything. Oh my god. And then during the summer, |
| 1:46.1 | I was shipped off to volleyball camp and to, you know, all different kinds of camps to go, |
| 1:52.6 | you know, improve my skills. But I played everything. I know. But let me say I wasn't begging to do it. |
| 2:00.6 | For you. Yeah, you weren't the kid who was like, you know, well, okay. So I did love it. But what |
| 2:07.3 | got me really excited about this doing this podcast is I listened to another podcast, this |
| 2:18.9 | vice podcast on sports and genetics. Okay. And I found it absolutely fascinating because this |
| 2:26.6 | author, I'm going to pull up his name right now because he deserves all the credit for this book, |
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