Hang Up and Listen - Anthony Edwards Is Here
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Josh Levin, and Slate’s Alex Kirshner discuss the quarterback frenzy at the top of the NFL draft and Anthony Edwards’ star-making performances in the NBA playoffs. Then, Josh and Stefan Fatsis are joined by cross-country skiing broadcaster Chad Salmela to talk about the remarkable Jessie Diggins.
QBs in the NFL draft (4:23): Was the Falcons’ Michael Penix pick a big mistake?
Edwards (18:44): The Timberwolves guard looks ready for the spotlight.
Diggins (34:06): Why everyone should root for the American skiing sensation.
Afterballs (56:38 ): Joel on "Machine Gun" Molly Bolin and WNBA.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | Hide your children. Hi I'm Josh Levine and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 29th, 2024. |
| 0:24.2 | On this week's show, we'll discuss the record-setting run |
| 0:26.6 | of quarterbacks at the top of the NFL draft, |
| 0:29.0 | and whether we, the football viewing public, |
| 0:31.3 | should have any confidence that these teams know what they're doing. |
| 0:35.0 | We'll also talk about whether Anthony Edwards can bust through the NBA's gerontocracy. |
| 0:40.3 | And finally, cross-country skiing broadcaster Chad Salmello will be here to school |
| 0:44.8 | us on the remarkable record-setting season of American Jesse Diggins. I'm in |
| 0:49.9 | Washington DC. I'm the author of the book The Queen and the host of an upcoming |
| 0:53.3 | slow burn season on the rise of Fox News and various and sundry other matters. |
| 0:58.0 | Stephen Fatsus is out in Greece. We prepared you for this. Do not be shocked. But you're going to hear |
| 1:04.7 | him a bit later in our cross-country skiing segment and you should check out |
| 1:08.0 | his piece published in Slate on Monday that's adapted from his afterball about |
| 1:12.2 | the Ivy League and NIL and it has some new original reporting from Stephen about what seems like the first Ivy program to actually raise money to pay a basketball player to stay in school. |
| 1:24.0 | So you should check that out. |
| 1:25.1 | We'll link to it on our show page. |
| 1:27.4 | With me, as always from Palo Alto, |
| 1:29.8 | it's three-time slow-burn host, |
| 1:31.7 | Slate's Emotional Investment Columnist, great column about the |
| 1:34.8 | W-NBA last week. |
| 1:36.3 | Joel Anderson, hey there, Joel. |
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