Hang Up and Listen - Alabama Is (One of) the Greatest Teams Ever
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🗓️ 12 January 2021
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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about Alabama’s win over Ohio State in the college football title game. They also assess how athletes and leagues reacted to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Finally, they discuss the NFL’s Super Wild Card Weekend.
College football (01:39): What will we remember about this season, and what should we make of the Alabama dynasty?
Insurrection (21:29): Why did the NBA and NFL powers that be stay silent?
NFL (38:02): The Cleveland Browns won and Nickelodeon made its playoff broadcasting debut.
Afterball (52:38): Stefan on Marine AFC.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q. |
| 0:15.1 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 12, 2021. On this week's |
| 0:23.3 | show, we're going to talk about Alabama's win over Ohio State in college football's national |
| 0:28.3 | championship game. We'll also discuss how athletes and leagues responded to last week's |
| 0:33.4 | insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. And finally, we'll assess the NFL's super wildcard weekend |
| 0:39.3 | and how pro football looked on Nickelodeon. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, |
| 0:45.9 | the host of Slow Burn, Season 4 on David Duke. Also in D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's |
| 0:52.8 | Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. And Stefan, |
| 0:56.4 | I heard that you declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom this week. Good choice, I think, |
| 1:02.3 | in keeping with the spirit that Bill Belichick has inspired us all to follow. |
| 1:06.9 | Yeah. You know, I'm hoping that in a different administration, they'll also see that I merit the presidential medal of freedom. But I thought it was the right thing to do for the country to turn it down. |
| 1:16.4 | Be prepared for some wild tonal shifts on the show. Joel Anderson from Palo Alto, Slate Staff Writer, host of Slow Burns, season three and six. Are you prepared to talk about mass rioting and attempted coups and Nickelodeon, Joel? |
| 1:30.6 | We'll see if I'm up to the challenge. I'm more excited about talking about Naji Harris, but I'll just go wherever the show takes us today. |
| 1:37.1 | As always. So we recorded the second and third segments on Monday. We're recording the National Title |
| 1:47.0 | Game segment on Tuesday. So if it feels like we are disjointed, then blame it on the calendar. |
| 1:56.4 | Blame it on the sports calendar, Joel. But what can you tell us about what happened on Monday night? |
| 2:01.5 | The most indefensible and unprecedented of college football seasons ended in the most |
| 2:07.1 | predictable fashion Monday night. Alabama is the national champion again. The Crimson |
| 2:12.1 | tide broke a 14 to 14 time in the second quarter en route to a 28 point win that gave Nick Sabin a record |
| 2:18.0 | seventh national title moving and past Paul Bear Bryant into first place all time. |
| 2:23.9 | Heisman winner Devante Smith was offensive MVP and only a half's work, catching a college |
| 2:28.8 | football playoff record 12 passes for 215 yards and three touchdowns before suffering a hand injury in the third quarter. |
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