This week, we’re joined by Ryan Landry for a discussion on entertainment and sports culture.
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Notes:
1:37 – Winterchan
4:06 – Introducing Ryan Landry
8:48 – The emerging Entertainment Culture
14:02 – Arguments against “Sportsball” fandom
19:22 – Sports and community
31:59 – The false geek/jock dichotomy
42:15 – The symbiosis of Sport and Media
59:07 – Prog Race Narratives vs. Reality
1:10:37 – Negative portrayals of White athletes
1:20:30 – Shoehorning Women into Sports Media
1:28:00 – Out of Left Field – Sports League Collapse?
1:41:28 – Ethnic origins of basketball
Related Show Links:
Music:
Opening Music: “Qosqo” by DavidKBD (excerpt)
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1145432/qosqo
Closing Music: “Deadly akoustik” by Schizophrenic
https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/870449/deadly-acoustik
Ryan Landry’s blog
http://28sherman.blogspot.com/
Watching your team lose drops your T levels
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9811365
The absence of white cornerbacks
http://www.complex.com/sports/2011/09/ghost-what-happened-to-the-white-running-backs-and-cornerbacks
Classic John Rocker quotes
http://www.searchquotes.com/quotes/author/John_Rocker/
Women gets “mind raped” in a locker room, files suit
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20113326,00.html
The Malice at the Palace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPaZ4zRb5G0
Daywalt Horror – “Bedfellows”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6flB0XvmTo
Sanctuary Cities and You
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/07/30/sanctuary-cities-defy-immigration-law/bXmxdlTSbYUWVGDT8MaLLO/story.html
Don’t Do Drugs, Kids
https://www.erowid.org/entheogens/
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