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Hang Up and Listen

What Sports Can Teach Us About Elections

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.0

Hi, I'm Josh Levine,

0:10.0

Slate's National Editor.

0:12.0

This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of

0:13.1

November 9th, 2020. On this week show we're going to talk about the

0:17.2

similarities and differences between election TV and sports TV and

0:21.1

whether election forecasters should be criticized or celebrated for their

0:25.5

performance in 2020.

0:27.5

We'll also compare how a great sports victory compares to a political one and by the way the Saints beat Tom Brady and the Bucks 38

0:35.1

to three on Sunday night. We'll also discuss the biggest college football game of

0:39.4

the year thus far Notre Dame's overtime win over Number One Clemson, who is missing its COVID positive

0:45.8

quarterback Trevor Lawrence.

0:48.1

I'm in Washington, D.C. the author of the Queen and the host of Sloburn season four also in DC is

0:54.2

Stephan Fatsis other of the books Word Freak and a few seconds of panic I

0:58.3

missed you at the White House Stephen I think we were there at separate times.

1:03.0

Yeah, do you regret having gone down there and waited into the crowd?

1:08.0

Maybe we should save that discussion for our Clemson, Notre Dame field dressing segment.

1:15.5

Or for our, how politics are like sports segment.

1:20.1

A lot of different places and opportunities to fit that in.

1:24.8

With us from Palo Alto, it is the host of Sloburn season 3 and the upcoming season 6.

1:29.9

Slade Staff writer Joel Anderson, victim of New York Times theft Joel Anderson.

1:35.0

How are you Joel? Oh, hey I am what happened what did the New York Times do?

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