Hang Up and Listen - What Sports Can Teach Us About Elections
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🗓️ 10 November 2020
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the differences between election TV and sports TV, and whether election forecasters should be criticized. They also compare how a great sports victory compares to a political one. And they discuss Notre Dame’s win over Clemson and the field-storming that followed.
Election TV (4:12): Can cable news learn something from how sports are covered?
Sports victories vs. political victories (24:23): Do we prefer landslides/blowouts or the thrill of a last-second win?
Notre Dame-Clemson (43:16): A great college football game feels different in 2020.
Afterball (58:36): Stefan on the heroism of Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor. |
| 0:11.7 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 9th, 2020. |
| 0:15.7 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the similarities and differences between election TV and sports TV and whether |
| 0:21.7 | election forecasters should be criticized or celebrated for their performance in 2020. We'll also compare |
| 0:28.4 | how a great sports victory compares to a political one, and by the way, the Saints beat Tom Brady |
| 0:34.3 | in the bucks 38 to 3 on Sunday night. We'll also discuss the biggest college football game of the year thus far, Notre Dame's |
| 0:41.2 | overtime win over number one, Clemson, who is missing its COVID-positive quarterback, Trevor |
| 0:46.9 | Lawrence. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm in Washington, D.C., and the author of The Queen, and the host of Slow Burn, season four. |
| 0:53.5 | Also in D.C. is Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. |
| 0:58.3 | I missed you at the White House, Stefan. |
| 1:01.2 | I think we were there at separate times. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. Do you regret having gone down there and waded into the crowd? |
| 1:09.7 | Maybe we should save that discussion for our Clemson, Notre Dame field dressing segment. |
| 1:15.7 | Or for our how politics are like sports segment. |
| 1:20.2 | A lot of different places and opportunities to fit that in. |
| 1:24.7 | With us from Palo Alto, it is the host of Slow Burn season three and the upcoming |
| 1:29.2 | season six. Slate staff writer, Joel Anderson, victim of New York Times theft. Joel Anderson. |
| 1:35.7 | How are you, Joel? Oh, hey, I am. What happened? What did the New York Times do? |
| 1:40.0 | Your New York Times was stolen. |
| 1:42.2 | Oh, yes, right. Oh, yes. Somebody stole it right out of my yard. The New York Times did not steal from you. The New York Times was stolen from you. I was thinking in terms of Ruth Shalit Barrett type theft. I didn't know. Okay. Yeah, no, man. I went downstairs, looked for it, and it wasn't there, but they left my San Jose Mercury news at the very least, |
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