4 Sports Leagues Whose New Scandals Explain Modern America
The Cracked Podcast
Literally Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Alex Schmidt is joined by Dan Hopper (Cracked, The New Yorker) and David Roth (Deadspin, The Best American Sportswriting) for a deep dive into the deeply ridiculous current scandals in each major American sport. They’ll look at the ways the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL revealed major truths about our society by majorly shooting themselves in the foot. Also listen for a uniquely insane announcer who somehow isn’t American, a baseball team so vile it makes the Yankees kind of likable, and the perfect approach to watching sports without being taken advantage of by them.
Footnotes: https://www.cracked.com/podcast/4-sports-leagues-whose-new-scandals-explain-modern-america/
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| 0:35.7 | Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracked Podcast. |
| 0:47.4 | The podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. |
| 0:51.1 | My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm a head of podcasting here at Cracked. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm also known as Schmidtie the Clam. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm also known as Schmidtie the Clam, and I am also also so excited about this episode. |
| 1:00.6 | Right up top one of our guests today is the writer David Roth, formerly of Deadspin.com. |
| 1:05.3 | So hell yeah about that. |
| 1:06.9 | Also my other guest is your pal and mine Dan Hopper from Cracked and I'll swear. |
| 1:10.2 | So hell yeah about that too. |
| 1:11.6 | And beyond that, I'm excited for all of you to listen to this because if you're a sports |
| 1:16.8 | fan, you're going to like this show a lot. |
| 1:19.0 | And if you're not a sports fan, you are going to love this show. |
| 1:22.1 | This is going to blow your mind because here's our topic today. |
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