TriviaNYC Podcast #25: Now With 80% More — What, Awesomeness? Yeah, We’ll Go With Awesomeness
When I started doing this podcast, I saw the number 25 as some kind of magical number, an achievement worthy of Pheidippides, who brought news by foot of a Greek victory at the Battle of Marathon to Athens, thus giving the race we now know as the marathon its name and its (relative) distance. But that metaphor doesn’t seem to work anymore, as Pheidippides collapsed and died on completion of his run, and frankly, I feel like this podcast has developed a new lease on life of late.
Maybe the better analogy would be to Eddie Izzard, who at the beginning of this summer was a tubby middle aged pomme de terre de chaise longue, but after a few short weeks of training has gone on to become some kind of heavily blistered Bikila-esque running man for the ages, banging out the miles like Albert Pujols bangs out homers, or like the woman in that Ricky Martin song bangs out… whatever it is she bangs.
My point is, the podcast is getting better. I’ve expanded it to nine questions from five, and I think it moves along a little faster and better, which works to everyone’s benefit. The interlude, in which I read the best team names of the week, feels like a good idea, and the easter egg at the end is a bonus for anyone who listens all the way to the end.
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- The opening theme is by “22:50″ by Sternklang, and the question music is “Latin Canteen” by The Rurals. The interval music is the selectively famous “Left Bank Two,” by the Noveltones, as heard on any British kids’ art show from the 1960’s and 1970’s.
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