Sweeping to Gold

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🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Today our hosts are joined by Phill Drobnick, head coach of the Olympic curling team, for some hot takes about the sport that inspired Sarah’s new campaign newsletter The Sweep. Listeners who are unfamiliar with this sport, which gets even passing national coverage only during Winter Olympics years, might be wondering about curling’s origins. “It started in Scotland, like every goofy sport that involves beer,” explains Drobnick on today’s episode. The sport then took off in Canada and then around the world. When people watch curling during the Olympics, they become armchair referees who don’t realize how much strategy is at play behind the scenes. How similar is curling to golf and hockey? Do sweepers make or break the game? Is there a culture of collegiality or trash talk in the professional curling universe? Coach Drobnick has got answers. Tune in to today’s show to hear Sarah and David also discuss the partisan skew in absentee voting, the increasing likelihood of another Bush v. Gore-style debacle over mail-in voting, and the RNC’s nonexistent platform moving into this week’s convention. Show Notes: -Sarah’s campaign piece about curling and The Sweep. -“The Grand Old Meltdown” by Tim Alberta in Politico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready? I was born ready.
0:20.0	Welcome to a very special advisory opinions.
0:24.0	This is David French with Sarah Izger
0:26.0	and we've got a fantastic guest later in the podcast
0:30.0	an Olympian, a coach of a gold medal team,
0:34.0	an athlete in a sport that,
0:38.0	I guess, you know, a curler,
0:42.0	along with me,
0:44.0	a fellow curler,
0:46.0	is on the podcast, Sarah.
0:48.0	And so you're going to have to hang in there for,
0:50.0	hang in here for a few minutes of political commentary.
0:54.0	And then we're going to get to some really elite level
0:58.0	curling and it's a real treat, isn't it?
1:00.0	The nerdiest of the Olympics winter sports.
1:04.0	Oh, and it's just so fun.
1:06.0	If you've not curled run, don't walk or should I say
1:10.0	skate, don't walk to your local ice rink and try it.
1:14.0	It's fantastic. But before we get to that,
1:18.0	Sarah, I think we need to undertake a public service.
1:22.0	And you know that the dispatch is against alarmism
1:26.0	is sort of like a brand.
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