Hang Up and Listen - Peter King’s Exit Interview
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by NFL reporting legend Peter King to talk about the Chicago Bears’ quarterback dilemma, what he’s seen in his four decades covering pro football, and why Bill Belichick refuses to speak to him.
Justin Fields and Caleb Williams (4:02): What are the Bears going to do?
Peter King looks back (29:48): What stories did he screw up? Which ones does he wish he got to cover?
Afterball (50:38): Stefan on D.C. public school basketball powerhouse Jackson-Reed.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.1 | Hide your children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and listen for the week of March 4th, |
| 0:22.8 | 2024. On this week's show, the NFL journalism legend Peter King will join us |
| 0:28.1 | to talk about Justin Fields, Caleb Williams, and the Chicago Bears QB |
| 0:32.0 | dilemma, plus what we learned from the NFL combine, if anyone ever |
| 0:36.4 | learns anything from the NFL combine. |
| 0:38.8 | And then after we put Peter through the paces, we will interrogate him about why he is retiring, what he's proudest of in |
| 0:46.1 | his long career, and what he maybe got wrong. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of the book The Queen |
| 0:51.6 | and the host of an upcoming |
| 0:53.0 | Sloburn season on the rise of Fox News and how the left tried to fight back. |
| 0:57.0 | Also in D.C. is Stephen Fatsis. He's the author of the book's Word Freak |
| 1:01.4 | a few seconds of panic and Wild and Outside. |
| 1:03.9 | Stephan, at an airport gift shop, I saw a coaster with the word wine spelled out in |
| 1:09.7 | Scrabble tiles. |
| 1:10.8 | Don't worry, I ordered you a hundred of this. |
| 1:12.6 | I thought you'd like it. |
| 1:13.6 | Thanks, yeah, I don't have any Scrabble Coasters, |
| 1:16.4 | so that would be great. |
| 1:17.8 | Yeah, thanks. |
| 1:18.8 | Where was that airport gift shop, Josh? |
| 1:21.8 | I went to Detroit. I'll say more about that when the time comes, but had a nice time in Detroit. Detroit tourism board. |
| 1:30.0 | Sponsor, hang up and listen. |
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