For the most part, I try to employ a well-balanced mixture of professionalism and wittiness when writing these episode blurbs. But from the bottom of my heart, that was one of the most enjoyable episodes I’ve ever had the pleasure of recording. Regular listeners will know that the Fortress enters flow state whenever we sink our teeth into a particularly juicy thought experiment—and the one explored in this episode might just be our crown jewel. It all started when Jiayang asked Jacob if he would be happy owning a player whose points were guaranteed to follow the pattern of a sinusoidal function; the odyssey that ensued (or rather, in keeping with the general principle of opting for active over passive voice, “the ensuing odyssey”) takes us on a whirlwind from the nostalgia of James Ward-Prowse’s classic 150-point seasons to the contemporary pertinence of the Palmer-Son-Saka hokey-cokey. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this timeless classic (if you know, you know)...