Good Sport Week: Limbaugh and Sports Talk (2003)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Jody has a new podcast series! It’s called “Good Sport” and all this week we’re featuring episodes. Be sure to find it wherever you get your podcasts.

Today, we discuss the moment in 2003 when Rush Limbaugh was featured on ESPN’s football coverage. The first episode of Good Sport gets into the connections between sports talk and politics talk. It’s out now.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:11.0	And welcome to Good Sport Week, three episodes hooked to a big new project hosted by me.
0:18.0	Look, we've said it on the show before, but if you write a book, you get a week.
0:21.6	We did a week of episodes with stories we did a week of
0:24.2	episodes of stories from micky's book and when Kelly's next book comes out we will do a
0:27.7	week on that I don't write books because writing a book seems like a terrible idea
0:32.0	everyone I know who's written a book seems like a terrible idea. Everyone knows who's written a book.
0:34.0	Not wrong.
0:35.0	Really, really hard.
0:36.6	So I wouldn't want to do that.
0:38.5	But I do make podcasts, and I do have a new one.
0:40.6	It is called Good Sport.
0:42.2	And I will tell you a little bit more about it in a second, but here as always are
0:45.7	Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello there and welcome to Good Sport Week.
0:51.5	Hello and congratulations.
0:54.0	Thank you.
0:55.0	Yeah, hey there, I'm ready to go.
0:57.0	Let's go.
0:58.0	So look, Good Sport is this new series that I'm hosting.
1:01.3	It's an eight-part series series it's a narrative show so there's you know
1:05.2	reporting and lots of writing for me and I kind of I've actually really enjoyed
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