FULL EPISODE: Don't Tell Me What To Do - January 28, 2026
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Why do coaches get blamed for poor team performance?
and welcome to The Last Show, a program that's probably educational. Whatever you learn tonight, you might be stupider for it. Here are some of the topics we'll cover on the evening's program. Health advice is supposed to help us. So why does being told what to do by the authorities sometimes make us do the opposite? Well, in 10 minutes time, we'll cover some new research that says if public health authorities are bossy with their messaging, that'll backfire and people won't listen at all. Then after that, halfway through the hour, it's everything you wanted to know about rage bait. It can make you furious. You know, videos on your phone that just make you upset.
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Not only are they upsetting, they kind of hijack your brain, but there are ways to not fall for it. And we'll teach you those. All right, that's some of the topics we'll hit on the evening show. There will be more. You will learn more. Lots to cover. So for now, we'd better jump in.
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When your favorite sports team starts losing consistently, the playbook seems simple. Fire the coach. That'll fix everything, right? But is that good team leadership firing the coach, or is it just a ritual sacrifice? Let's talk about why coaches take the fall when things go wrong, and why, despite how it might feel to you, may not help the players at all. I am here with someone who's researched this. His name is Brian Sebing, and he's an associate professor of kinesiology, sport, and recreation at the University of Alberta. Brian, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.
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Why do sports need a fall guy? Why, when a team is performing badly, is there someone we need to just throw under the bus as if that'll somehow make the problem go away?
Well, I think part of the reason is, is that from a sports standpoint, sport becomes a part of our everyday conversation, right? Whether it's a medium like radio, like this, television, internet, things like that. Sports is all part of everybody's conversation. And with that, a lot of times when they're not performing well, at the end of the day, people start looking at the coach or they may start looking at the general manager. And at the end of the day, Fans may think somebody has to pay the price with their job for the lack of performance.
So a scapegoat is what the coach would be. What pressures is a team trying to relieve when they fire a coach? Like, who are they protecting?
Well, part of it is, is it's not necessarily just protection, but you may have excessive media pressure. Like I said, with the description from above the conversation, especially in that local community. may become excessive enough that the team is going to have to relieve that media pressure. Because if the coach is not the fall guy, then people start looking at maybe the front office, maybe the owner, things like that. And so what we were finding is that the coach is the easier one to, let's say, let go to sort of relieve that pressure. But there's going to be other things that are going to be involved there too in terms of there could be Politics within the club, there could be just a lack of an overall strategic plan, expectations that don't match performance, those sorts of things as well.
So the study that we're talking about here, it focused on Brazilian soccer.
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And of course, it could apply to hockey or football or baseball or all these other things. But Brazilian soccer, famous for rapid fire coach changing. Rapid fire firings, I suppose, is one way to put it. What makes this sport in this country such a good case study for how the blame game plays out?
Well, I think you just mentioned it. Even in comparison to other sports leagues around the world, it's not just North America, but if we think about Europe, Asia, and Australia, we see a lot of turnover within the coaching profession.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:24
2
Why do coaches get blamed for poor team performance?
0:24–1:03
3
How does forceful language affect health advice compliance?
1:03–1:29
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What is the new university course on resisting rage bait?
1:29–2:03
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How should adults deal with workplace bullying?
2:03–3:58
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What are best practices for first psychedelic experiences?
3:58–5:10
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Why is the 2016 throwback photo trend considered annoying?
5:10–5:31
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How to navigate attraction to a coworker while in a relationship?
5:31–1:20:10
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