Turn Your Radio On

Brooke & joel competed in yet another event, resulting in the tying up of their two-way competition. Brooke selected (granted, with a bit of pressure applied by joel) “the radio game” as their next event during a far-too-long car ride from Omaha to Clinton. Joel is generally terrible at the radio game, mostly because he thinks and reacts much slower than the average human. Brooke skipped out to a lead by possibly correctly identifying a song as a Goo-Goo Dolls piece (joel subsequently guessed Gin Blossoms & Foo Fighters & while we’re not 100% sure it was the Goo-Goo Dolls, it didn’t seem hard enough to be fighting foo & it was far too recent to have been a Gin Blossoms song)… Joel had a couple close misses, including an instrumental piece that may or may not have been “Octopus’ Garden”, then Joel scored by identifying David Sedaris’ voice on NPR. (note: there is some disagreement as to whether identifying a non-song item on the radio, but I’ve long argued that it should be allowed). We listened to the end of the piece about death & then continued on. The game was tight, with brooke jumping ahead, then joel catching up, until joel nabbed two in a row, winning on correctly identifying Dire Straits as the singers of “Money For Nothing”. While there were several questionable calls (possible non-titles as answers and the dreaded Phil Collins or Genesis question), the point went to joel who came back to tie the brooke v. joel games & now has the next selection. Should be an exciting weekend in SeegerOlympic matchups.

In other SeegerOlympic news the poetry contest judges have been finalized (and all but one told that they are involved). The poems will all be sent to the Commissioner, Shane, then anonymized and forwarded to three judges, Mom Seeger, D-Force & Eric. A rubrick is still to be released, but the format is decided.