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LAURA SMITH: Hi Leah, I’m good, how are you? LEAH: I’m good. Okay, I want to play something for you and I want you to describe what you think it is: [SPORTS ANNOUNCER AUDIO] LAURA: Okay so basically it looks like people playing video games…but I don’t totally get it…like there are people talking over it… LEAH: They’re definitely speaking with an Australian accent. LAURA: Okay, that’s the problem, it’s the Australian accents. They’re also using words I don’t recognize. It sounds like…play-by-play announcers describing the game? LEAH: Well you’re pretty much right about that. So, they are video games, and those are play-by-play announcers. Because this is a professional competitive video game! Also known as esports. Which is short for electronic sports. ....
California magazine and the Cal Alumni Association. LEAH: Where we talk with Berkeley experts about how we’re going to stop doing things that humans have done for hundreds of thousands of years and, you know, do something else instead. LAURA: Because we wrecked the planet? LEAH: We sure did. LEAH: And I’m your other host, Leah Worthington. [MUSIC OUT] LAURA: Meat alternatives have been around for a really long time. In fact, there’s a document that was written in 10th century China that talks about how tofu was a good meat alternative. And they called it, “small mutton.” ....