It’s Mentors, Sources of Stress, and the Divine Feminine with the Ted Lasso Season 2 Finale on today’s episode of the Torg Stories Podcast. Anne, the episode opens with the Soccer Special show where the big news is that Rebecca’s ex husband has bought the West Hamm Club and Ted Lasso left the pitch during a match because of a panic attack. What do you make of the news?
Notes, prompts and discussion questions for Season 2 Finale Episode 12 titled “Inverting the Pyramid of Success.”
- Eff the haters.
- What do you eat for breakfast Anne?
- “Just do the work, Pal and you’re be all right.”
- “It is our choices, gentleman, that show who we are far more than our abilities.” Nip it in the butt. Making mistakes. Horticulture baby! Edwin has his helicopter on the pitch.
- Macot Idol. From the shelter. Tina Feyhound. Messed up my dog’s name. The dog breeder has a thing for Keeley. She tells Higgins. “A good mentor hopes you will move on. A great one knows you will.”
- Anne, who would you say your mentors are? Me? Dad, Joe Bentz, Bob Knight, Sam Watson, Dan Bauer, and Allen Gee.
- Sam is trying to decide. His father tells him to look for a sign from a universe. What do you think of that?
- Nate looks at pyramid of success. On my wall. Dad ordered like three of them. Roy asks for advice. Diamond dogs. Diamond Dogs mount up. You live you learn. Thank you Alanis. She looks so great on her own without me. We appreciate you barking at it. Nate wants to confess too. This is about men sharing their feelings. Beard and Ted love Roy.
- Ted press conference. Makes me think of Kevin Love. Mental health in athletics.
- Ted in Rebecca’s office. “there is no greater education than travel.” Sam comes in. He has decided to stay. I wish I could say it was because of my feelings for you. I need to stop worrying what others think of me. I am staying because it is best for me and my personal journey.”
- Five days later: Roy got Keeley the vacation tickets / reservations. Six week break plan. She loves him. What do we make of this?
- Three weeks later: Sam buys a building to open a Nigerian restaurant.
- Two Months Later: West Ham. Nate is managing them. (that’s the pic
- From Egner’s Believe book: Sudeikis has talked plenty about how Ted Lasso embraces the divine feminine, or those more open, cooperative qualities of the human spirit like vulnerability, emotional sensitivity, and sublimation of of self-interest in the name of the greater good.
- More on the Divine Feminine: “I would argue that general popular references to ‘The Divine Feminine’ today exist within a context of working to redress perceptions of a gendered spiritual imbalance,” says Amy Hale, an anthropologist and folklorist. Click here for source.
- Nick, who plays Nate, had some flecks of gray in his hair for season one and they got rid of them so he’d look more youthful. For season 2, they kept adding gray until he was in a full grey wig. “In a way bitterness, guilt, shame, and stress can often change someone’s appearance, they thought it would be fun to track Nate’s spiral that way.”
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