As we were preparing for , I kept saying that we shouldn't overlook the fact that, often, to be an underdog in the first place, you have to be relatively bad at the thing you鈥檙e an underdog about.
The more we talked about it, the more I found myself making the case that losers and losing are fascinating.
And they are. There's . We in movies and TV and songs and stories.
And think just about the phrase "lovable losers." In a culture where we focus seemingly entirely on the positive half of the zero sum, where we endlessly exalt , it's kind of interesting that we love the losers too, isn't it?
This hour, a long look at losers and losing.
GUESTS:
- Jason Cherkis - Political reporter for The Huffington Post and the co-host of
- Josh Keefe - An investigative reporter at the Bangor Daily News; in a piece for Slate's Sports Nut, he claimed that
- Jonathan McNicol - Producer at 黑料吃瓜网 Radio
- Irene Papoulis - Teaches writing at Trinity College
- Brian Slattery - Arts editor for the New Haven Independent and a producer at WNHH radio
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Colin McEnroe and Betsy Kaplan contributed to this show, which originally aired August 1, 2016.
