July 13, 2022
Soccer with Kai
Description
Grade A product and design guy Kai Lo heads to the studio to tackle our technical soccer questions, match Jason's love for Son Heung-min, and give Moraga a yellow card for food diversity.
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Bio
Kai Lo is an economics and business studies major from NYU and has his MBA from USC. In his formative years, Kai was a founder of TC&W Productions, the Bay Area’s premier film production company for high schools in the early two thousands in the South Bay. Part soccer star and part host extraordinaire Kai juggles all this in his personal life while doing product and design work at Meta.
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What Jason Learned
The bar-tailed godwit is a bird known for its incredibly long migration: 7000 miles in 8 days from Alaska to New Zealand.
What Kelcey Learned
There was a chicken wing shortage in the United States due to an increase in take-out orders during the pandemic.
Top Five Tips for getting into soccer

  1. Watch a league game outside the MLS. Kai recommends the English Premier League due to its fast pace and attacking style.

  2. Watch the World Cup or European Championships.

  3. Go to a soccer-specific bar to watch football to feel the atmosphere.

  4. Play FIFA.

  5. Watch the Netflix documentary series "Sunderland 'Til I Die".

Fact or Fiction: Soccer Edition

  1. Soccer is named after the term “social club”, as the sport evolved from social clubs in the mid 19th century - FICTION, soccer is short for association football

  2. Soccer is played by 100 million people across 100 countries - FICTION, soccer is played by 250 million players across 200 countries making it the world’s most popular sport

  3. No one knows exactly when soccer was created, but the earliest versions of the game can be traced back 300 years - FICTION, the earliest versions of the game can be traced back 3,000 years

  4. In Europe during the Middle Ages, soccer balls were made from inflated pig bladders - FACT

  5. A traditional soccer ball has 32 panels, with each panel representing a country in Europe - FACT

Won't You, Haiku?
Soccer

Soccer is fun, yeah?
Manchester United, aite?
I love Heung-min Son.