Hang Up and Listen - Coco Wins the Big One
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🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about Coco Gauff’s big breakthrough at the U.S. Open. They also discuss Texas’ win over Alabama, and whether the Longhorns are back, baby. Finally, the Washington Post’s Ben Golliver joins to assess Team USA’s non-medal-winning performance at the FIBA Basketball World Cup.
Coco Gauff (2:48): Why her first grand slam victory felt so monumental.
Texas-Alabama (26:50): Are the Longhorns rising up or is the Crimson Tide on the way down?
FIBA World Cup (44:49): Why did Team USA flop again? Does it matter?
Afterballs (01:13:15): Joel on Willie Jeffries and Stefan on how Billie Jean King and a deodorant manufacturer secured equal pay for women at the U.S. Open in 1973.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains explicit language. If you want to know how explicit, keep listening. |
| 0:19.9 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of September 11, |
| 0:23.4 | 2023. On this week's show, we'll talk about 19-year-old Coco Goff's big breakthrough at the |
| 0:28.9 | US Open. We'll also discuss Texas's win over Alabama, whether the Long Horns are back, baby. |
| 0:36.0 | And finally, the Washington Post's Ben Golliver will join us to assess team USA's non-metal |
| 0:41.2 | winning performance at the FIBA basketball world cup and what it means for the Olympics and the |
| 0:46.4 | international game. I'm in Washington, DC and I'm the author of The Queen and Host the |
| 0:50.7 | podcast one year. Our new season, one year, 1955, is out now. New episodes coming out each Thursday. |
| 0:57.9 | Please subscribe. Also in DC, Stefan Fatz says he's the author of the book's word freak, |
| 1:03.2 | a few seconds of panic and wild and outside. Hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh. And with us from |
| 1:09.4 | California, it's Joel Anderson. He is the host of Slow Burn, becoming Justice Thomas. And we're all |
| 1:14.8 | looking forward to your thoughts on your favorite college football program. |
| 1:19.5 | Right now, my favorite college program is Colorado. I'm a Dianne Sanders fan. I've been converted. |
| 1:25.9 | I'm a believer as we established last week. Last week, you hedged on whether you were a believer. |
| 1:31.2 | Now you're confirming that you are a believer? I mean, do you not remember my tweets from November |
| 1:37.6 | 2021 when I lobbied TCU? Actually, you know what? I want to go ahead and say this. Somebody |
| 1:43.3 | reached out to me over the weekend. And they like, Hey, I remember how hard you was stumping for |
| 1:47.7 | Dianne. And I'll never forget it. And they say they never forget it. Yeah, right. Well, |
| 1:54.2 | they could say they know somebody who knows somebody. And they said that, well, I don't even know |
| 1:58.2 | if I should say this, but they're basically TCU is afraid of having prime because they didn't want |
| 2:03.0 | him to outshine the school's brand, which is just, I mean, if that's true, that's the stupidest |
| 2:07.8 | thing I've ever heard. We get what we deserve casting our lot with sunny dicks. But I'm not bitter. |
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