Hang Up and Listen - Our New Tennis Overlord
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🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham discuss the opening weekend of the NFL season and the rise of tennis phenoms Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek. They’re also joined by Josh Levin (same name, different guy) to discuss how he made the final stage of American Ninja Warrior.
NFL (3:10): The cognitive dissonance of a new season.
Tennis (23:27): Why 19-year-old Carlos Alcaraz looks like a legend in the making.
Josh the Ninja (47:20): How he conquered his Ninja Warrior demons.
Afterball (1:11:07): Josh on notable moments in Knicks message board history.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ready for a Monzo Business Bank account? Mike from Bluewater Plumbing was. |
| 0:05.0 | I need to get paid quickly, especially when I have five or six plumbing jobs in a day. |
| 0:08.0 | When I first used the payment link feature in my Monzo Business account, |
| 0:11.0 | I was impressed to how quick and easy it was. At the end of each job, |
| 0:14.0 | I'll just create a payment link, send it to the customer, and get paid then and there. |
| 0:17.0 | I can also track all of my payments in my get paid tab. |
| 0:20.0 | If you're ready for a Monzo Business account, apply today. |
| 0:23.0 | Just search Monzo Business, tease and seize apply. |
| 0:26.0 | Only sole traders or limited company directors in the UK can apply. |
| 0:30.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q. |
| 0:53.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slates National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the Week of September 12th, |
| 0:58.0 | 2022. On this week's show, we're going to talk about the NFL's opening weekend, |
| 1:03.0 | which was eventful for kickers, bad for Dak Prescott, and great for the owner's bank accounts. |
| 1:10.0 | We'll also discuss Carlos Alcaraz, E. Gashviantek, and a pretty fantastic US Open. |
| 1:16.0 | And finally, my name-sake, Josh Levine, will make his triumphant return to this podcast |
| 1:22.0 | to discuss his amazing run on American Ninja Warrior. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast one year. |
| 1:31.0 | I hope you all listened to Joel's great episode last week, and there are three more coming this season on 1986. |
| 1:38.0 | Also in D.C. as Stefan Fatsis, he is the author of the book's word freak a few seconds of panic and wild and outside. |
| 1:45.0 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:46.0 | Hey, Josh. I did listen to Joel's episode, and I can attest that it was terrific. |
| 1:50.0 | Thank you for the confirmation. |
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