LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 91
Ted Lasso, the title character in Apple TV+โs buzzy comedy, is a flyover-country American football coach hired to lead an English football (that is, soccer) team. Heโs hired to fail. But because of his aw-shucks charm and relentless positivity, he begins winning people overโeven if heโs not winning games. His post-game speech after a devastating loss gives us a taste of who the character is:
Lift your heads up and look around this locker room. Look at everybody else in here. And I want you to be grateful youโre going through this sad moment with all these other folks because, I promise you, there is something worse out there than being sad. And that is being alone and being sad. Ainโt no one in this room alone.
On the other...