Good Sport Week: Aging and Growth
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Jody has a new podcast series! It’s called “Good Sport” and all this week we’re featuring episodes. Be sure to find it wherever you get your podcasts.
Today, a sample from the episode on aging and growth.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone Jody here. Welcome to the final day of Good Sport Week series of episodes |
| 0:09.1 | marking the release of a new podcast series that I'm hosting from the TED Audio Collective. |
| 0:13.4 | It's called Good Sport. |
| 0:15.0 | And it's basically about how sports can help us understand some things in the world and ourselves. |
| 0:20.6 | We're hearing from a lot of people who don't love sports but seem to be enjoying this |
| 0:24.3 | podcast. I'm pretty proud of it. I had lots of fun making it and I hope you're |
| 0:28.0 | enjoying getting a taste of it. No, Nicky or Kelly this morning, no discussion. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm just going to bring you an excerpt of an upcoming episode. |
| 0:35.0 | This episode is not out yet. It's not out for a couple weeks. |
| 0:38.0 | So don't tell the folks at TED that I'm doing this, but I think it's okay if I give you a little sneak preview of an episode that I really like that it's coming up later in the series, which is about something we all grapple with, aging and figuring out what comes next, whether it's in our sport, or our regular career or our lives in general. |
| 0:55.0 | All right, here we go. I hope you enjoy this and we will be back to regular esoteric political |
| 1:00.6 | history programming come next episode. |
| 1:05.0 | What kind of things did you write growing up? Did you write diaries or love letters or melodramatic |
| 1:15.9 | poetry about the fate of mankind? And could you ever imagine getting on stage and reading those things |
| 1:21.6 | in front of strangers. |
| 1:22.8 | I know that I've basically memory hold a lot of that stuff and no thank you. |
| 1:26.2 | I am not interested in that. |
| 1:27.8 | But luckily plenty of people are and the result is our fellow radiotopia show, |
| 1:32.2 | the mortified Podcast. |
| 1:34.0 | It is back with new episodes celebrating the 20th anniversary of the stage show |
| 1:38.0 | that inspired the podcast. |
| 1:40.0 | There's more laughs, more teenage writings, |
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