Chapter 1: What are the hosts thankful for this Thanksgiving?
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Chapter 2: How does Zaslo eat his Thanksgiving meal?
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Chapter 3: What was Mike Ryan's dad's insane restaurant order?
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Chapter 4: What are Jemele Hill's thoughts on Detroit sports?
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Chapter 5: How does the Detroit Lions' performance affect the city's image?
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Haven't had her perspective around here in too long. Do not like going months without speaking to her. You can watch new episodes of her podcast, Politics, live on her YouTube channel. Jamel Hill, she's also a contributing writer for The Atlantic. Any thoughts? Football Thanksgiving, Detroit Thanksgiving.
As a person who has her allegiances to Detroit and the end of the Dan Campbell era here, because I don't believe we're all looking at the same team.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of Shedeur Sanders' starting debut?
we were looking at last year. Welcome, Jamel, and what are your thoughts about Detroit playing on Thanksgiving and not totally being an afterthought and laughingstock, and really being host to the country before we get to the Super Bowl, before the games that have the real giant entertainment value?
Well, it is a welcome change, and certainly my husband is very happy being a die-hard Lions fan his whole life. But, you know, one thing about this team is, like, it's matching, and a lot of people probably aren't aware of the tremendous momentum that's happening in Detroit just as a city overall. I mean, Detroit just elected its first female mayor, its first Black female mayor, to be specific.
And just a lot of great things are happening in the city. They're getting a new five-star hotel. I mean... Everything that I'm seeing happening in the city and the neighborhoods, it's great that it's happening in conjunction with the team that has probably caused the most misery for everyone in the state is also doing well. And I've said this repeatedly for people who have
you know, just kind of a passing interest in Detroit is like, yeah, I know we're known for Hockey Town. Yes, we know the Pistons have won in championships. The Red Wings certainly had a very dominant run that everybody witnessed, but the Lions are the team of the state.
And if they were to ever go to a Super Bowl, it would by far be the biggest story in Detroit sports history, maybe the biggest story in Michigan history, period. So to have all these wonderful things happening at once,
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Chapter 7: How do racial dynamics influence perceptions of Shador Sanders?
and for the Lions to actually be treated with respect on Thanksgiving, what can I say? It's just like a mama-we-made-it moment for the entire city.
Can you tell me, because I have not been back to Detroit since they started what was a sports-inspired revitalization of downtown that began with the baseball team, right? It wasn't even like what you're talking about when you say Detroit feels like it's back. Detroit's been pushed around for a long time. Yeah.
Yeah, it has. Listen, Detroit was a laughing stock, especially when we were going through the recession in sort of the early 2000s. And people naturally made note of the fact that you could, at that point, buy a home in Detroit for $1,000. They were listing homes in Detroit on Craigslist. That's how bad it was. Detroit was in bankruptcy financially.
It just wasn't a whole lot of investment happening there. And it had been a longstanding sort of problem that Detroit only being recognized nationally about our crime rate and about things that were not very positive, you know?
Chapter 8: What pop culture references are discussed in relation to sports?
And so, like, people see the movie RoboCop, the original RoboCop. I think they may have remade it or whatever, but they see RoboCop and they think that's Detroit. I mean, I don't even think RoboCop was actually filmed in Detroit, but it's based in Detroit. The story is, but that's how people came to think of Detroit as just this barren, crime-ridden hellscape that didn't deserve anything.
And so... It is with a lot of pride that I see Detroit being embraced now and people understanding that what's happening there is not a fluke. We have been through some stops and starts before. Listen, Detroit has a Gucci store downtown. I never thought I would see that.
all right when i was growing up there were no major department department stores in downtown detroit and now there's a gucci store and an apple store and a 50s store and so um while some of this also signals a gentrification that can be create and cause some uncomfortable questions
I think I'm generally more positive about saying it because I do see that growth spreading out to other parts of the city because that's where you want to see it. You want to see the neighborhoods come up if there's a revitalization downtown. But downtown is cracking. Detroit is the place. But did it start with sports? No, not really.
I mean, I think there was a lot of investment things that were that were happening downtown. But to your point, it's like the Tigers being good, like when your baseball team is good, that is a different type of renaissance that the city will see because you have more opportunities to be in that area. You know, you're talking about 160, you know, two game schedule. You got 80 home games.
So that's 80 opportunities for people to be downtown, as opposed to, say, the Lions who are playing eight or nine home games and then that's it. or even the Pistons who are playing like 40 something games. And that renaissance, that turnaround only happened in the last two years. But I think really what started all of it was just people understanding the business opportunity.
Detroit has a beautiful riverfront that borders Canada. Like we can get to Canada in 10 minutes. And so that property has always been bought up. But it started with the investment from Dan Gilbert, from Mike Illich, from a lot of really big business leaders that are in the Detroit community. And it spun into what we see now.
And now that the sports teams are good, it's like it's all kind of clicking together finally at the same time. How does Detroit compare, care about the Pistons right now compared to the Lions? I mean, listen, people are obsessed with the Pistons, but I mean, the Lions are kind of the number one team in town.
I mean, because again, that's a town, that's a team the whole state loves, right, is the Lions. And I think because the futility has been so much longer with the Lions, that them being good is always going to be the number one story. The Pistons is an incredible story, especially seeing where the Pistons were just three years ago.
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