Introducing Good Sport

The TED Interview

TED

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This week on The TED Interview we’re excited to introduce TED’s newest podcast, Good Sport, hosted by veteran sports producer Jody Avirgan. What can sports teach us about life – and each other? Good Sport brings you invigorating stories from on and off the field to argue that sports are as powerful and compelling a lens as any to understand the world – from what happens when you age out of a sport, to how we do or don't nurture talent, to analyzing how sports arguments have become the mode for all arguments. Good Sport launched on February 8th and you can find it anywhere you’re listening to this. TED Audio Collective+ subscribers on Apple Podcasts can hear the whole season early and ad-free.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.0	Hey there, my name is Jody Afrigan and I'm the host of a new podcast from Ted called Good
0:11.9	Sport.
0:12.9	I've learned a ton of life lessons from playing sports, from watching sports, and from
0:17.0	covering sports in my career as a journalist.
0:19.4	I've also pulled my hamstring like 300 times but that's another story.
0:23.4	In every episode of Good Sport, I'm digging into a big question from the world of sports
0:27.9	that feels like it has something larger to teach us.
0:31.2	Like what's the secret of a talent hotbed?
0:34.0	Those places that seem to produce star athlete after star athlete.
0:38.8	Or what I'll do with my time now that I'm aging out of my sport.
0:41.8	I'm not taking up golfing, I'll tell you that, but I am trying to find the next day.
0:46.2	Ultimately, this show is my argument to you that we can use sports as a lens to understand
0:51.8	something bigger about the world around us and ourselves.
0:56.6	Like around after this episode for a taste of the new season or listen right now, you
1:00.7	can find Good Sport wherever you get your podcasts.
1:06.9	Every big life lesson I've learned.
1:09.6	How to channel my competitive fire.
1:12.1	How to be a supportive teammate or partner.
1:15.4	How to focus on what I can control and try to let go of what I can't.
1:20.6	All of that I've learned through sports.
1:25.2	My name is Jody Avergan and I'm the host of a new show called Good Sport.
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