Hang Up and Listen - Remembering Henry Aaron
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🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the Packers’ mystifying field goal attempt and the Chiefs’ run for a second straight title. They also discuss the life and legacy of baseball legend Henry Aaron, who died last week at the age of 86.
NFL (01:35): What was Packers coach Matt LaFleur thinking? What’s the secret to the Chiefs’ success?
Henry Aaron (21:55): Remembering Aaron’s upbringing, his career, his chase of baseball’s home run record, and everything he needed to overcome to be great.
Afterball (01:02:24):Â Stefan on the sad and courageous story of Black baseball players Leander and Jim Turgeson.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor. This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 25th, 2021. On this week's show, |
| 0:23.3 | we're going to talk about a mystifying field goal attempt by the Packers, a 10th Super Bowl |
| 0:28.5 | appearance for Tom Brady, and the Kansas City Chiefs run for a second straight NFL championship. |
| 0:35.1 | We'll also go long on the life and the legacy of baseball legend |
| 0:39.3 | Henry Aaron, who died last week at the age of 86. I'm in Washington, D.C. I am the author of |
| 0:46.6 | the Queen, the host of Slow Burn, Season 4 on David Duke. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsas. He is the author |
| 0:53.2 | of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. |
| 0:56.6 | Hello, Stefan. Hi, Josh. Bad week for field goals. Oh, those were great games, man. All those |
| 1:01.9 | field goals were awesome. Warmed my heart. With us from Palo Alto, Slate Staff writer, Enemy of Field |
| 1:08.6 | Goals, host of Slow Burn, Season 3 and 6. Joel. Joel. Punch it in. Have a good running back. Just punch it in. That's right. That's what you need. A good running back. LSU running backs, Clyde Edwards Elair, Darrell Williams, Leonard Fournett, all scored touchdowns, NFLSU, baby. Wow. Yeah, I mean, and one national |
| 1:29.1 | championship out of all of that. That's... How many are you expecting them to win? All right. |
| 1:35.7 | It's going to be a Buck's Chief Super Bowl in Tampa on Sunday, February 7th. The first time a team |
| 1:42.7 | has ever played a true home game in the Super Bowl. |
| 1:46.6 | LSU didn't make it. I don't know what happened. The 43-year-old Tom Brady will be going for |
| 1:52.5 | his seventh title, his first outside New England. Twenty-five-year-old Patrick Mahomes will be |
| 1:57.8 | going for his second in a row. The Chiefs are hoping to be the first team to win back-to-back titles since the Patriots |
| 2:04.7 | and Tom Brady in 2004 and 05. |
| 2:08.3 | Before we get to that, we've got to say a few words about the Green Bay Packers. |
| 2:11.9 | The NFC number one seed was playing at home on Sunday. |
| 2:15.4 | They're at Lambeau Field. |
| 2:16.8 | They're led by the NFL's likely MVP, quarterback Aaron Rogers. |
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