Hang Up and Listen - Remember Elgin Baylor
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🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about Gonzaga’s greatness and the Sweet 16 match-up between Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark. Stefan and Josh then try to convince Joel to become a fan of the U.S. men’s national soccer team. Finally, Defector’s Dave McKenna joins for a conversation about basketball legend Elgin Baylor, who died last week at 86.
NCAA tournaments (2:18): What’s the secret to Gonzaga’s success? What stood out in UConn’s win over Iowa?
U.S. soccer (22:57): What’s not to love about this generation of American men’s soccer talent?
Elgin Baylor (45:03): What you need to know about the Washington D.C., College Idaho, Seattle University, and Los Angeles Lakers icon.
Afterball (65:27)
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.2 | Hide your children. |
| 0:08.6 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 29th, 2021. |
| 0:15.8 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the sweets 16 of the men's and women's NCAA tournaments, wherein |
| 0:22.3 | Gonzaga still looks dominant, and Paige Becker's ousted her fellow freshman sensation, Caitlin |
| 0:27.9 | Clark. We'll also check in on the good news, bad news week for U.S. men's soccer. Senior |
| 0:33.6 | national team looked quite nice, under 23 squad, failed to qualify for the Olympics yet again. |
| 0:40.5 | And defectors, Dave McKenna, will join us for a conversation about D.C., College of Idaho, Seattle, and Lakers legend, Elgin Baylor, who died last week at age 86. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, the host of Slow Burn Season 4 on David Duke. |
| 0:58.5 | Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak, and A Few Seconds of Panic and wearing his U.S. soccer. |
| 1:06.0 | What is that? T-shirt? You got the crest on? |
| 1:08.8 | It's the women's. It's a women's shirt. |
| 1:11.4 | Three stars, not four, purchased before the 2019 World Cup. |
| 1:16.5 | Is that your kind of mild expression of disappointment in the men for their failure to qualify for the Olympics? |
| 1:21.6 | And my support for America as a nation. |
| 1:24.2 | Great. |
| 1:25.5 | With us from the West Coast, Slate Staff writer, host of Slow Burn season three and the upcoming |
| 1:31.0 | season six, wearing no U.S. soccer memorabilia whatsoever. |
| 1:35.0 | Joel Anderson. |
| 1:35.7 | Hello, Joel. |
| 1:36.1 | Hey, what's going on? |
| 1:36.7 | I'm just wearing a gray shirt that my father-in-law got for me. |
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