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The Taekcast

Ep. 245 - Nostalgia Is The Most Toxic Impulse w/ Jonathan Wilson

The Taekcast

Davis Mattek

Fantasy Sports, News, Sports News, Sports

4.9808 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Davis Mattek is joined by Jonathan Wilson to discuss his new novel "Streltsov", why we tend to misremember important moments in sports and the difference between sports for sports sake and sports for entertainments' sake.   Buy the novel here: https://theblizzard.co.uk/shop/books/streltsov/   www.patreon.com/taekcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What do Devante Adams, George Kittle, Justin Jefferson, Debo Samuel, and Amon-Raw St. Brown all have in common?

0:06.7

Well, besides being some of the most reliable hands in the game of football, they're also the stars of the new Netflix series Receiver.

0:13.2

From the same team that brought you the show quarterback, receiver takes you deep inside the huddles, locker rooms, and personal lives of five of the best past catchers and playmakers in the NFL.

0:23.6

Catch receiver now playing only on Netflix.

0:45.0

Music Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the Tatecast.

0:46.0

My name is Davis-Matic.

0:48.4

You guys can find me on Twitter at Davis-Matic.

0:52.3

In this episode of the show, I am joined by a man I admire greatly.

0:57.1

Jonathan Wilson, you probably know him best as author of Inverting the Pyramid.

1:02.4

He's actually been on this program before to promote one of his books, and he is now written a novel.

1:04.0

You can find the link to purchase that novel in the description of this podcast.

1:07.6

It is entitled Stretzlov.

1:09.8

It is about a fictional retelling of one of the

1:12.9

very interesting lives of perhaps the greatest Russian footballer to ever live and his journey

1:18.3

to missing the 1958 World Cup. I always love reading Jonathan Wilson's work, love listening to

1:24.6

him on the Guardian Football Weekly, and I hope that you guys enjoy his appearance on this show as much as I did.

1:30.6

If you want to support this show or get bonus episodes, you can find them on patreon.com

1:35.5

slash takecast, or you can just leave a rating or review on iTunes.

1:39.6

Now let's go ahead and get into the episode.

1:42.4

All right, everyone, welcoming in a return guest, actually, to the program.

1:47.4

Mr. Jonathan Wilson, you probably know him best as the author of Inverting the Pyramid.

1:53.7

I've given that book out as a Christmas birthday gift, quite a bunch to all my soccer

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