Hang Up and Listen - NFL Hiring Under Fire
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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by the New York Times’ John Branch to discuss Chinese-American skier Eileen Gu. They also talk about Brian Flores’ lawsuit against the NFL and ponder the 76ers’ Ben Simmons problem and the Nets’ various conundrums.
Eileen Gu (6:02): What to make of her decision to represent China at the Beijing Games.
Flores (23:40): Can anything change the NFL’s hiring practices?
NBA (43:15): Should we sympathize with Ben Simmons? Can the Nets turn it around?
Afterball (1:04:42): Joel on Jim Brown, Syracuse basketball player.
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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. |
| 0:19.3 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 7, 2022. |
| 0:26.5 | On this week's show, The New York Times' John Branch will join us to talk about the controversy over Eileen Gou, the U.S.-born Skier, who's representing China at the Winter Olympics. |
| 0:36.7 | We'll also assess Brian Flores' lawsuit against |
| 0:39.4 | the NFL and whether black coaches will ever get a fair shot in the league. And we'll look at the |
| 0:45.0 | latest developments in the 76ers Ben Simmons saga, whether the Sixers in the Nets might be able |
| 0:51.1 | to help each other out. I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of |
| 0:54.8 | the Queen and the host of the podcast one year. Also in D.C. is Stefan Fatsis. He is the author |
| 1:00.8 | of the book's word freak, a few seconds of panic, and Wilde, and Outside. Hey, Stefan, did you think |
| 1:08.1 | about making separate books? Wilds is part one and outside as part two? |
| 1:12.2 | Oh, I wrote Wild. |
| 1:13.4 | You didn't know that? |
| 1:14.5 | I did not know that. |
| 1:15.4 | It would pad your total. |
| 1:16.5 | We could get you up to four. |
| 1:18.2 | I hope to get up to four someday. |
| 1:21.2 | We believe in you. |
| 1:22.6 | And back with us, making us whole again is Joel Anderson. |
| 1:26.3 | He is a slate staff writer, the host of Slowburn |
| 1:29.5 | season six on the LA riots, just one of many Slow Burn seasons that he's hosted. Too many to list at this point. |
| 1:35.5 | Hello, Joel. Welcome. Hey, happy to be back. You had Joel miss me? Not really. You don't have |
| 1:42.3 | to answer that. Let's not answer it. We missed you. We missed you so |
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