Mixed Bag: #Fedal, TV, and Side-Stepping Race
1:30 First things first: Justin Bieber is making good songs. What is going on? 5:00 Toronto is winning pop culture right now 7:00 Masculinity and fandom: how men perform gender through watching sports; excluding women from sports fandom 15:00 TV time! Why Jane the Virgin works (especially for James) 19:00 Nashville, Jonathan's non-guilty pleasure 23:30 James Blake on Jon Wertheim's podcast; avoiding the topic of race 31:30 A sort-of tangential discussion of desegregation and racism in Normandy, Missouri (see This American Life's "The Problem We All Live With") 39:00 Talking Singapore 41:00 Does winning the WTA Finals predict a Grand Slam win? 43:00 Radwanska a victim of bad press for winning fair and square 47:00 Fedal is back!!! 54:00 Our hopes for the rest of the season 56:30 Venus: #thankful #blessed #bringiton
