Sports In The Time Of Coronavirus (with Jason Benetti)

The Cracked Podcast

Literally Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt calls up Chicago White Sox play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti, to explore what it’s like simulating a sports season that may never happen outside of his PlayStation 4. They’ll also examine the weird way virtual sports can turn meaningful, discover how Taiwan resumed real baseball a week ago, and dig into sports’ role as a canary in the coal mine of modern American society.

Footnotes: https://www.cracked.com/podcast/sports-in-time-coronavirus-with-jason-benetti

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey there folks, it's your pal Alex Schmitch,
0:02.4	Mitty the Clam with an exciting announcement.
0:05.6	The announcement is I made a one-off podcast mini-series.
0:09.7	It's my own low thing, it's my own low passion project,
0:12.3	and it's called One Way to Make an emoji.
0:15.3	You know, something you may not know about me
0:17.2	is that I created an emoji that's gonna be on your phone
0:20.6	later this year, 2020, it is the Bison emoji.
0:23.9	You know, like the American Buffalo American Bison,
0:26.7	that's gonna be on your phone,
0:28.4	and I proposed that, a world-governing body,
0:31.1	decided it's gonna be part of the keyboard,
0:33.2	and the podcast is about that, and so much more stuff.
0:37.5	So I can't wait for you to hear it.
0:39.0	What you want to do is search for One Way to Make an Emoji,
0:42.0	that's the number one in that title there.
0:44.0	One way to make an emoji in your podcast app,
0:47.2	or you can follow the links to Apple and to Spotify
0:50.4	in the food notes of this podcast episode.
0:53.2	It's a short mini-series, it's a fun mini-series,
0:55.6	and it's all gonna release all at once,
0:57.6	so if you subscribe now, you will get the entire show,
	...

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