The Unfair Coach
Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Back when coaching didn’t do very much, it didn’t matter who got it and who didn’t. But coaching is clearly getting better and better, and spreading into more areas of life, which means it matters a great deal who gets it and who does not. And the people who don’t get it are often the ones who need it most.
- A professor attempts to teach the art of landing a joke to America’s next generation of business leaders, but will she tip the scales of privilege even more along the way?
- We see the other darker side of data coaching in sports, when the weaponization of information enables a cheating scandal that puts an end to a promising pitching career.
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| 0:00.0 | Here at Planet Money, we bring complex economic ideas down to Earth. |
| 0:14.7 | We find weird, fun, interesting stories that explain the way money shapes our lives. |
| 0:19.7 | Inflation, recessions, the price of gas we've got you. |
| 0:23.0 | Listen now to the Planet Money Podcast from NPR. |
| 0:30.9 | Chariots of Fire. |
| 0:34.4 | So what does the power come from? |
| 0:36.4 | To see the race to its end. |
| 0:38.0 | From what end? |
| 0:43.0 | If you're into watching White Guy's Run, the movie never gets old. |
| 0:47.0 | Even if you're not into that, it has one of the best coaching scenes ever filmed. |
| 0:51.6 | Harold Abraham's, a British sprinter, is about to run the 100 meter final in the 1924 Olympics. |
| 0:58.8 | His coach gazes out of his hotel room window at the stadium next door. |
| 1:03.2 | The pistol sounds. |
| 1:05.2 | The coach watches the sky over the stadium. |
| 1:09.2 | Then he spies the British flag rising. |
| 1:12.2 | That's how the coach learns that his runner has won the gold. |
| 1:22.8 | There's a reason the coach isn't inside the stadium watching the race. |
| 1:26.8 | He's been banned. |
| 1:28.8 | But Cuzzy's a coach. |
| 1:30.8 | In 1924, professional coaches are taboo. |
| 1:34.4 | They're considered a form of cheating. |
| 1:36.6 | The steroids of the age. |
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