Hang Up and Listen - Aaron Rodgers’ Achilles
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🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay to talk about quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ (possibly) season-ending injury. Gay also discusses American cyclist Sepp Kuss’ historic grand tour win at the Vuelta a Espana and the controversy that preceded it. And finally, the Athletic’s Sabreena Merchant assesses the big storylines in the WNBA playoffs.
Rodgers (2:22): Is it too soon to laugh about him doing his own research?
Kuss (19:30): Should the cyclist’s team and his teammates have challenged him or allowed him to win?
WNBA (38:20): Can anyone take down the New York Liberty and the Las Vegas Aces?
Afterball (59:23): Josh on the MLS story of the year: an Argentinian who is not Lionel Messi.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine and this is Hang Up and Listen for the Week of September 18th, 2023. |
| 0:18.2 | On this week's show, The Wall Street Journal's Jason Gay will join us to talk about Aaron |
| 0:22.2 | Rogers' Achilles' tear and when the quarterback's own research suggests he might be back. |
| 0:27.8 | Jason will also chat with us about American cyclist SEPCUSES' historic Grand Tour win at the |
| 0:33.9 | Vuelta Espanya. And finally, the Athletics Sabrina Merchant will be here to chat about |
| 0:39.0 | the super teams dominating the WNBA and who might have a chance to take down the New York |
| 0:44.4 | Liberty and the Las Vegas Aces in this year's playoffs. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One |
| 0:52.4 | Year. Our new season, one year, 1955, is out now with new episodes every Thursday. |
| 0:59.1 | Listen, subscribe, rate, review. We appreciate it. |
| 1:03.3 | Joel Anderson is off this week, recovering emotionally from the turmoil caused by watching |
| 1:08.7 | his TCU horned frogs, pummel, his Houston Cougars, 36-13. But with me and D.C., Stefan Fatzis, |
| 1:17.6 | he is the author of the book's word freak, a few seconds of panic and wild and outside. |
| 1:21.8 | How is your horned frog treating your Cougar this week, Stefan? |
| 1:24.8 | It was kind of a win-win-lose-lose situation for Joel, wasn't it? TCU against Houston? |
| 1:30.8 | It was. |
| 1:31.8 | How is your Cougar treating your horned frog, should I say? I don't know which belongs |
| 1:37.5 | first. Do you put the larger animal first? |
| 1:41.0 | The Cougar is going to eat the horned frog, so probably not a good weekend for the horned |
| 1:46.5 | frog ever when it faces a Cougar. |
| 1:49.2 | Except when Dana Holgerson is involved. |
| 1:52.2 | In our bonus segment, first slate plus members this week, Jason Gay will stick around to |
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