Episode 640: We’re Talking about Practice

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather team up to overthink Ted Lasso, a new comedy on Apple TV+ starring Jason Sudeikis about an American football coach who starts coaching Premier League soccer in London. They discuss the show’s structure, its real-life inspiration, the way it sidesteps politics (or doesn’t), and what it has to say about masculinity in a time where discourses of gender are undergoing critical re-evaluation.

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Further Reading

• “We’re talking about practice.” (context)
• John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success
• The Beautiful and Damned (Amazon)
• A Wrinkle in Time (Amazon)
• Bird by Bird (Amazon)