Hang Up and Listen - All Hail the Rams
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🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the Rams’ Super Bowl win over the Bengals. They’re also joined by David Epstein to discuss the decision to allow Kamila Valieva to skate in the Olympics. Finally, they assess the mega-trade between the Nets and 76ers.
Super Bowl (3:36): How Aaron Donald and Cooper Kupp led the Rams to victory.
Valieva (23:13): Why is the 15-year-old competing after testing positive for a banned substance?
NBA (45:20): Who won the James Harden for Ben Simmons swap?
Afterball (1:04:27): Joel on Sherman Lewis, who never got the chance to be an NFL head coach.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains naughty language. |
| 0:17.3 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 14th, 2022. Happy Valentine's Day. On this week's show, we'll be talking about the Rams win over the Bengals and Super Bowl 56. Dave Epstein will also join us to discuss the decision to allow 15-year-old Russian skater Camila Valleva to compete in the Olympics |
| 0:38.8 | despite a positive drug test. |
| 0:41.2 | And will assess the mega trade between the Nets and the Sixers, which has the potential to |
| 0:45.7 | change basketball history and or allow James Hardin and Ben Simmons to be hated by entirely |
| 0:52.1 | new fan bases. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One Year. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, and Wild and Outside. What did you eat last night, Stefan? Dinner, leftovers? We did not do anything special. I'm not like jol i didn't eat like a what i didn't |
| 1:13.0 | eat like a pint of dip |
| 1:14.7 | okay you act like eating a pint of dip during the super bowl is a bad thing like okay |
| 1:21.4 | well we're the left and what were the chili i don't know yeah i don't know what you're making a |
| 1:26.0 | reference to i didn't realize i didn't look i didn't intend to eat dip. I thought it was chili. What were you the leftovers? Leftovers were delicious chicken schwarma. It was good. I'm a really low, shout out to my wife. You all just make chicken swarmer at home? |
| 1:44.4 | It's just a mire lemon cheesecake that she made too. |
| 1:47.4 | Okay. |
| 1:47.8 | Wow. Didn't eat anything fresh. Some people just make chicken shwarm at home. Joel Anderson is a slate staff writer, host of Slow Burns, season three and six. Joel, what did you eat? Well, I'm impressed |
| 1:58.4 | that you all make chicken swarmer at home, |
| 2:00.1 | but we had |
| 2:01.0 | Bogogi fries |
| 2:02.5 | from a place |
| 2:04.3 | like a little you eat? Well, I'm impressed that you all make chicken swarmer at home, but we had a booggi fries |
| 2:02.5 | from a place, like a Korean street food restaurant around the corner here. So, this is the first time |
| 2:09.1 | I ever had it. Took a little chance on Super Bowl Sunday, and it paid off. That gamble, it really |
| 2:14.6 | worked. It was really good. It was better than I expected. I told Joel what I |
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