Good Sport Week: What Stadiums Can Teach Us
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 19 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 how the deals for new sports stadiums tend to reflect larger political and economic systems.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from |
| 0:06.4 | radio topia my name is Jody Avergan. This is the second episode in Good |
| 0:12.4 | Sport Week where we are doing some episodes linked to the fact that I have a big new podcast series |
| 0:17.4 | It is called Good Sport. I hope people are listening |
| 0:20.3 | It is out there now and each episode kind of looks at an interesting question from the world of sports that maybe |
| 0:25.8 | unlocks something bigger and then over the course of the series I think hopefully adds up to |
| 0:30.6 | this argument I guess that sports is a good way to understand the world and ourselves and it's as good of a lens as any as I say in the show to understanding some bigger forces in our lives. |
| 0:41.6 | So here to help celebrate good sport week as |
| 0:45.2 | always Nicole Hammer Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. |
| 0:48.8 | Hello there. Hello Jody. Hey there I feel like I should have pum poms, especially since we're in a stadium. |
| 0:55.0 | It's very hard to resist the sports metaphor and the sports |
| 0:59.0 | appreciate. |
| 1:00.0 | Go team go. |
| 1:02.0 | But you know, it's also a shared language, right? |
| 1:05.0 | Someone was telling me. |
| 1:06.0 | It is. |
| 1:07.0 | It is. |
| 1:08.0 | Sports and weather, the only two things left basically that you can like walk into any bar in any place and just start talking to someone |
| 1:13.7 | about and chances are you will, you know, you'll find some common ground or at least just like have a |
| 1:18.5 | civil conversation. Though as we talked about last episode, sometimes it can get uncivil pretty quick. |
| 1:25.4 | But look, so this episode I thought I'd tell you a little bit about stadiums and how |
| 1:30.0 | stadium deals come together and we do an episode in good support about stadium deals and we do an episode in good sport about stadium deals and this |
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