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That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

359: Old Takes Exposed

That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Sarah talks to Fred Segal, the man behind @OldTakesExposed, who shares the origins of the account, how he finds the receipts for cold takes, the reaction he gets from called-out prognosticators, Greg Cote and Adrian Wojnarowski's all-time frozen takes and how the new book, "Freezing Cold Takes: NFL" offers some context for shame mitigation. Plus, a final update from the Do Crew! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

ESPN and Anne's scape contributor Dominique Foxworth has a new podcast every Tuesday and Thursday,

0:05.7

bringing his unique perspectives on football, the personalities that surround it,

0:09.7

and just about anything else he finds interesting, or thinks you might.

0:13.2

So check out the Dominique Foxworth show. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

0:22.4

Welcome to That's What She Said with Sarah Spain, a podcast about,

0:26.0

well, whatever the hell I want, actors and musicians, athletes, comedians, neuroscientists,

0:31.8

wine experts. If I find somebody interesting, I'm bringing them to you. We'll talk about how they

0:36.9

became who they are, how they found success, battle failures, and how they ended up here,

0:42.3

talking to me. My name is Fred Siegel, and I don't know why my airpods don't work when I talk.

0:50.8

Ah, technology, a blessing and a curse. My best solution isn't easy one, just clean those suckers.

0:58.0

Usually when they sound muffled, it's because they're dirty. And weirdly, I found that cleaning my

1:02.5

airpods is an oddly and surprisingly satisfying thing to do. Like, you know, some other

1:08.4

ostensibly gross things like pop and pimples are cleaning under your fingernails. Have I said too

1:13.2

much? Alright, moving on. If cleaning them doesn't do the trick, maybe time to look into some repair

1:18.9

or to snag some new ones. That's what she said. Welcome into that's what she said with Sarah Spain,

1:24.6

featuring a host that has a little spring in her step after that unexpected Chicago Bears win

1:30.1

in their season opener. The incredible photos, the videos of the post game, slip and slide,

1:35.5

celebrations, so good. Almost enough to make me forget about the terrible no good horrible

1:42.6

very bad ending to the Chicago sky season. Almost, clearly. Today's guest knows a lot about sports

1:50.3

endings and beginnings and all the hot takes and bold predictions that accompany them. His name is

1:55.7

Fred Siegel and he is the man behind the popular Twitter account at old takes exposed, freezing cold

2:01.6

takes. He's a Florida man. He lives there with his wife and two kids, former lawyer,

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