Hang Up and Listen - Soccer in a Time of War
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin assess the back-and-forth NBA Finals between the Warriors and Celtics. The New York Times’ Andrew Das also joins to talk about Ukraine’s loss to Wales in a World Cup playoff match. Finally, they discuss the Oklahoma softball juggernaut.
NBA Finals (3:09): How the Celtics took Game 1, and how the Warriors struck back.
Ukraine-Wales (25:00): An epic sporting event with global consequences.
Oklahoma softball (47:30): A deep dive on a remarkable dynasty.
Afterball (1:08:57): Josh on Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek, Rafael Nadal, and tennis inevitability.
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| 0:29.6 | The following podcast contains explicit language, |
| 0:33.2 | Hide Your Children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of June 6, 2022. |
| 0:55.2 | On this week show, we'll chat about the first two games of the NBA finals, which were won by |
| 0:59.0 | different teams. Keep listening to find out who. |
| 1:02.0 | We'll also be joined by Andrew Doss of the New York Times to talk about the |
| 1:05.4 | Ukraine men's national team's quest to make the World Cup, which ran aground against Wales on Sunday. |
| 1:12.0 | And finally, we'll discuss the most dominant team in all of sports, |
| 1:16.5 | the Oklahoma University softballing sooner. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm in Washington, D.C. and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the |
| 1:23.8 | podcast in one year. Also in D.C. is Stephan Fatsus. He was played by Emil Hersch in |
| 1:29.1 | into the wild and outside, by Jody Foster in a few seconds of panic room, |
| 1:34.1 | and naturally by Haley Mills and Haley Mills and Word Frecky Friday. |
| 1:38.4 | Spind a lot of time on that didn't here? |
| 1:43.0 | Not more than 45 seconds. |
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