537: Roast Me, Amigo!

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Football is life! But even if you don’t care about sports, you should still watch “Ted Lasso” on Apple TV+. It’s a very funny show that’s also full of empathy and respect for its characters, which never goes for the cheap joke, and takes the tropes of every sports movie you’ve seen and uses them in ways you’re not expecting. And we’ve left plenty of space before the Spoiler Horn for our cross-Atlantic panel to explain why you should watch it and why we love this fusion of American and English sensibilities. We believe in Ted Lasso, and you will...

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 537, October 2020.
0:10.8	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.7	I'm your host, Jason Snell, and this episode is about a, I would say, one of the most delightful surprises.
0:18.4	There have been a lot of surprises in 2020, folks.
0:22.0	A few of them delightful, but this was delightful. It's Ted Lassau, the TV series on Apple TV Plus, starring Jason
0:29.6	Sudakis. It is delightful, and I know you're thinking to yourself, Apple TV Plus, maybe you don't
0:36.4	get it, maybe you don't care care or you're thinking it's a comedy
0:39.8	with Jason Sudecass. Maybe you don't care about that. You may have heard that it's about sports
0:44.7	and you don't care about sports. We're going to get into it here. We'll try not to spoil at the
0:49.5	beginning, but I'm just going to preface this, trust us us. Trust us. You want to watch Ted Lasso.
0:55.0	It's great.
0:55.7	Let me introduce the panel that I put together.
0:57.6	This rag tag group of podcasters, soccer players, podcasters, who have been assembled here to fight us off from relegation.
1:09.2	Dan Moran joins me.
1:10.5	Hello, Dan. We cannot fight that many ghosts, Jason. Glenn Moran joins me. Hello, Dan.
1:11.5	We cannot fight that many ghosts, Jason.
1:13.5	Glenn Fleischman also here.
1:14.6	Hello.
1:15.4	Flehman, Flehman, Glenn.
1:16.4	Fleaism, Fleaism, Glenn.
1:18.0	Glenn, Fleaisman, Fleaisman.
1:20.1	Somebody reboot Glenn.
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