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Remington Davenport

πŸ‘€ Speaker
120 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

We were so crazy.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

We would just like look for anything to compete over.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

But it was all in like good fun.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

But now I'm like, good sportsmanship and good etiquette is the only thing I believe in.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

But don't look at me when I was playing as a kid because I was a monster.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

No, nothing.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

Bragging rights.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

To put it simply, it's a social club to play and learn backgammon.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

It's really focusing on community and bringing people together over this concept of being offline.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

And at the heart of it is making new friends and meeting new people and pushing yourself to want to improve.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

I also started Gals Who Gammon.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

When I go to these tournaments all over the world, I've noticed it's really about a 10% women attendance rate.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

Oh, my God.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

Walking into that room, I was almost in tears.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

There's 300 people in this room obsessed with the same thing I'm obsessed with.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

Like, how freaking cool is this?

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

I'm building a community in New York, but then there's this community of U.S.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

tournament players.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

These people in the U.S.

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Freakonomics Radio
677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves?

have been playing with each other for decades.

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