Name: Ep. 15 - Week 2 NCAAF reactions, Recapping NFL Week 1, 'Straight-to-Voicemail' & 'The Sauna' by InTheLoopica
Duration: 37 min 40 s
Description: In Episode 15, all three brothers are back together to talk about the weekend of football, first touching on the College Football spreads from their Loopica Locks segment before heading to the 1PM NFL games. Then, 'Straight-to-Voicemail' returns as friends & enemies of the Podcast call in to chop it up. Lastly, Chris takes a quick dip in 'The Sauna,' bringing along a new ABC show.

The modern, average 12-year-old Madden NFL videogame player has actually visualized more plays than ‪any past real-life NFL Hall-of-Famer. And now, for the first time, we're seeing those videogame tactics show up on the field too. There's a "technological and analytical arms race" going on in sports, and it's producing the world's best athletes in history.

How are they working smarter, using science and technology to enhance the way they train and perform, when it's not enough to put in 10,000 hours? How should athletes sleep? (Note: you can try this at home, too). And what does “performance by the aggregation of marginal gains” have to do with winning? 

Author of the new book Faster, Higher, Stronger Wired's Mark McClusky -- interviewed by a16z General Partner (and enthusiastic basketball player) Jeff Jordan -- bridge the worlds of "jocks" and "nerds" in this wide-ranging conversation about sports, performance technology, nature vs. nurture, and the tricky nuances of why some enhancement technologies are legal vs. illegal or better vs. worse than others.

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In Episode 15, all three brothers are back together to talk about the weekend of football, first touching on the College Football spreads from their Loopica Locks segment before heading to the 1PM NFL games. Then, 'Straight-to-Voicemail' returns as friends & enemies of the Podcast call in to chop it up. Lastly, Chris takes a quick dip in 'The Sauna,' bringing along a new ABC show.

Ep. 15 - Week 2 NCAAF reactions, Recapping NFL Week 1, 'Straight-to-Voicemail' & 'The Sauna'

Podcasts and podcasting have been around a while, but seem to be going through a renaissance of sorts -- partly enabled by connected cars and other technologies. But how do we discover podcasts; is the ideal atomic unit the show, or an individual episode/topic? What makes a good podcast? And given their intimacy, how can brands and communities engage with podcasts?

We discuss this and more in this oh-so-meta episode of the a16z Podcast-about-podcasts. And to help us do that, we invited longtime podcaster and radio host Roman Mars -- of the highly regarded design show 99% Invisible -- as well as fans (and now curators of) podcasts, Ryan Hoover and Erik Torenberg of Product Hunt. [Along with, of course, your a16z Podcast producers and hosts Sonal Chokshi and Michael Copeland.]

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Chris, Alex & Zach Lupica are three brothers chopping up the world of sports and beyond. Whether you're a corporate suit looking for a little light in a dark cubicle or a daily commuter in need of transit entertainment, In The Loop delivers hot takes right to your ears. 

Check us out @ intheloopica.com


Ep. 15 - Week 2 NCAAF reactions, Recapping NFL Week 1, 'Straight-to-Voicemail' & 'The Sauna'

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