Hang Up and Listen - Is Winning Time a Winner?
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Vinson Cunningham, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the decline of the Brooklyn Nets and the rise of the New Orleans Pelicans. They also discuss Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes, and they review the HBO series Winning Time, on the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers.
NBA playoffs (3:55): What’s gone wrong for Brooklyn? What’s going right for New Orleans?
Wimbledon (25:34): Is there any logic to banning individual Russian athletes?
Winning Time (49:08): What the show gets right and what it gets wrong.
Afterball (1:09:52): Josh on hiding in sports.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language, including the words, well, you'll just have to wait and see. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 25th, 2022. |
| 0:26.6 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the latest developments in the NBA playoffs, |
| 0:31.0 | where the Brooklyn Nets are on the verge of elimination, and the New Orleans Pelicans are putting up a fight against the top-seated Phoenix Suns. |
| 0:39.4 | We'll also discuss Wimbledon's decision to ban Russian and Bella Russian players from this year's |
| 0:44.7 | tennis tournament and we'll review the HBO series winning time on the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers. |
| 0:51.7 | 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. is Stefan Fatsis. He is the author of Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic and Wild and Outside. Hello, Stefan. When are we going to see the TV series on the Independent Northern League of the, was that early 90s? |
| 1:11.3 | Mid-90s, yeah. |
| 1:13.3 | The rights are available. |
| 1:14.7 | Anyone out there would like to reach out. |
| 1:17.5 | I have a team of agents standing by waiting to take your calls. |
| 1:21.8 | I'm thinking six seasons in a movie. |
| 1:23.7 | That's sort of my vision for a while. |
| 1:25.5 | That seems fair. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.2 | Again, sitting in for Joel Anderson. |
| 1:28.3 | It's New Yorker staff writer and theater critic, Vincent, |
| 1:31.3 | Vincent, what television series are we going to see based off of your work? |
| 1:36.3 | Oh, it's already been made. It was called a critic. It was a cartoon. |
| 1:40.3 | Remember that one? |
| 1:41.3 | I do remember that one. |
| 1:42.3 | It stinks. |
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