John Brown Spiers

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John Brown Spiers is a former academic and lifelong overthinker. He’s written many short things and abandoned many long ones. He grew up in the Midwest, currently lives in the South, and would get lost in a different forest every day if he could. He is trying very hard.
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Ted Lasso’s Latest Press Conference is Beautifully Troubling

One of the things Ted Lasso – the show, not the character – does really well is needle-scratch press conferences. They established this precedent splendidly with Ted’s seltzer water spit-take in the first few minutes of the very first episode. (Come to think of it, spit takes are another thing Ted Lasso does really well. It’s a long list!) In…