{"id":4313,"date":"2021-03-19T15:54:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:54:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:54:17","slug":"podcast-episode-101-author-larry-olmsted-on-the-benefits-of-sports-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/19\/podcast-episode-101-author-larry-olmsted-on-the-benefits-of-sports-fandom\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 101: Author Larry Olmsted on the Benefits of Sports Fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week&#8217;s guest is Larry Olmsted, author of the fascinating new book <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3cIwoCI\">Fans: How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Understanding<\/a>. Larry is on Twitter as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TravelFoodGuy\">@TravelFoodGuy<\/a>, and you can find out more about the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsfansbook.com\/\">at his site<\/a>. While there&#8217;s not much tennis in the book, the topic should be of interest to all sports fans. Plus, Roger Federer turns up in Larry&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/03\/18\/march-madness-from-cash-to-blood-to-livers-generosity-sports-fans-column\/4707463001\/\">USA Today op-ed<\/a> published yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We talk about how sports are like religion\u2026 and also like the Grateful Dead, whether individual sports offer the same health and happiness benefits as team sports, how the in-person fan experience has changed, what we can learn from American Ninja Warrior, and why the world is so full of sports bars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4313-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode101.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode101.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode101.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Note: this week&#8217;s episode is about 46 minutes long; in some browsers the audio player may display a different length. Sorry about that!<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode101.mp3\">Click to listen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/id1223937610\">subscribe on iTunes<\/a>, or use <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/feed.xml\">our feed<\/a> to get updates on your favorite podcast software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: <a href=\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/files\/texasradiofish\/61504\">Everyone Has Gone Home<\/a> by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2020. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: spinningmerkaba<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/159.203.141.169\/tennisabstract\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tap_script_square-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is tap_script_square-1-150x150.png\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s guest is Larry Olmsted, author of the fascinating new book Fans: How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Understanding. Larry is on Twitter as @TravelFoodGuy, and you can find out more about the book at his site. While there&#8217;s not much tennis in the book, the topic should be of interest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/19\/podcast-episode-101-author-larry-olmsted-on-the-benefits-of-sports-fandom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 101: Author Larry Olmsted on the Benefits of Sports Fandom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}