Hang Up and Listen - Remembering Diego Maradona
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🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the Broncos playing without a quarterback and other NFL COVID chaos. They also discuss the life and death of soccer legend Diego Maradona. Finally, they assess the debut of kicker Sarah Fuller, the first woman to play in a Power 5 football game.
NFL (02:03): Should the Broncos have been forced to play? Will the NFL make it to the playoffs?
Maradona (22:14): Could there ever be another player like him?
Sarah Fuller (40:51): What should we make of her historic achievement and her performance on the field?
Afterball (57:28): Stefan on the “Greek Maradona,” Vasilis Hatzipanagis.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains naughty language. |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor. |
| 0:12.4 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 30th, 2020. |
| 0:16.5 | On this week's show, we'll talk about the NFL in COVID times. |
| 0:19.9 | The Broncos playing without a quarterback. the 49ers playing without a home stadium, |
| 0:24.9 | and the Ravens likely pressing on in the midst of a team-wide outbreak. |
| 0:29.4 | We'll also discuss the life and death of soccer legend Diego Maradona |
| 0:32.6 | and whether there will ever be another player or person like him. |
| 0:36.7 | And we'll assess the football debut of kicker Sarah Fuller, |
| 0:40.2 | who became the first woman to play in a Power 5 game. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, |
| 0:47.0 | the host of Slow Burn Season 4. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis, |
| 0:51.0 | the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. I've got some soothing |
| 0:55.8 | rain sounds going on in my background, Stefan, in case people are picking that up. |
| 1:01.4 | What's the weather report from your part of town? Yeah, rain beating down gently on the skylights. |
| 1:08.4 | A gentle beating. My poetic weather report. |
| 1:11.6 | And with us from Palo Alto, Slate Staff writer, Joel Anderson. |
| 1:14.8 | He's the host of Slow Burn season three and upcoming season six on the LA riots. |
| 1:19.7 | Do you care to bore us with some California weather, Joel? |
| 1:22.9 | Well, I mean, it's gorgeous outside. |
| 1:25.1 | Sunny, crisp, probably in the 40s this morning. |
| 1:28.4 | I've got on a sweatshirt, sweatshirt weather. |
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