Radiolab Presents: The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper

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🗓️ 9 February 2011

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This week on the podcast, football! No, it's not a Super Bowl recap. Jad and Robert present a piece from across the pond--a piece about soccer they fell in love with when they heard it at the Third Coast festival in Chicago.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.0	Short!
0:11.5	From W. N.Y.
0:13.8	C.
0:14.7	See?
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.3	And NPR.
0:18.9	Hey, I'm Jada Boomrod.
0:20.5	I'm Robert Filrich. This is Radio Lab. The podcast. The podcast. So today we're going to do something a little different on the podcast. We're going to present a story that you and I ran into in Chicago. In the Third Coast Audio Festival. It won an award this story and it's just quite wonderful. It's really cool. This is about soccer. And it happened to remind us about a show that we're putting together for the spring on the topic of symmetry. Chemistry, symmetry, symmetry, hair parting symmetry. All different kinds. And by the way. But that's later. Oh, I'm sorry. You were about to say the cool part. It turns out that we get to do this show not only on the radio, but in three fabulous cities in the United States. Live. Yeah. We have shows in New York. Unfortunately, that one's sold out. But we will be in L.A., March 23rd, in Seattle, March 30th. And it's going to be really fun. And it'll be about symmetry. Yes, so which takes us back to our subject.
1:12.1	Soccer, which...
1:13.6	At least appears quite symmetrical.
1:15.3	Yeah, you've got two teams.
1:16.5	Eleven people on each side.
1:17.6	That's right.
1:18.1	You got two coaches, two sets of fans.
1:20.8	However, there are two people on that field, the goalkeepers on either side, who are living
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