Hang Up and Listen - Serena’s Coach Tells All
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis speak with Rennae Stubbs of ESPN and Racquet about coaching Serena Williams at the U.S. Open. Alex Kirshner of Slate and Split Zone Duo joins to discuss the start of college football season and the new 12-team playoff. Finally, the New York Times’ Juliet Macur talks about her story on how the Afghan women’s soccer team escaped the Taliban.
Rennae Stubbs (3:24): What she told Serena before and during her grand send-off in New York.
College football (24:22): How the game is changing, and how it’s staying the same.
Afghan women’s soccer team (49:23): The harrowing story of their escape from Kabul.
Afterball (1:11:42): Stefan on American soccer players on rival Scottish teams having the gall to eat dinner together.
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| 0:29.6 | The following podcast contains explicit language. Hide your children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slates National Editor, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of September 6, 2022. |
| 0:55.6 | On this week show, Renee Stubbs of E-PN and Racquet magazine will join us to explain what |
| 1:00.9 | it was like to coach Serena Williams during her grand send-off at the U.S. Open. |
| 1:05.9 | Alex Kirsner of Slate and Split Zone Duo will also be here to assess the opening weekend |
| 1:11.2 | of the college football season and the decision to move from a four team to a 12 team playoff. |
| 1:16.7 | And finally, Juliet McCur of the New York Times will come on to discuss her story, The Keeper, |
| 1:22.1 | the harrowing personal story, |
| 1:24.0 | that how the Afghan women soccer team fled the country to escape the Taliban. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C. and I'm the author of The Queen |
| 1:31.0 | and the host of the podcast One Year. |
| 1:33.0 | New episode this week from the one and only Joel Anderson. |
| 1:37.2 | Subscribe because you don't want to miss that on Thursday. |
| 1:40.6 | Also in DC is Stephen Fatsis. He is the author of the book's Word Freak, |
| 1:44.8 | a few seconds of panic, and wild and outside. Hello, Stephen. |
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