The Plugged In Show, Episode 91: Ted Lasso and The Kissing Booth

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Ted Lasso, the title character in Apple TV+โ€™s buzzy comedy, is a flyover-country American football coach hired to lead an English football (that is, soccer) team. Heโ€™s hired to fail. But because of his aw-shucks charm and relentless positivity, he begins winning people overโ€”even if heโ€™s 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 youโ€™re 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. Ainโ€™t no one in this room alone.

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