Hang Up and Listen - The 54 O’s Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss the World Cup with Slate’s Nick Greene and Slate’s Jim Newell joins to talk about golf’s U.S. Open. Plus, an interview with BuzzFeed’s Ken Bensinger about his book on corruption in soccer, Red Card.
World Cup (2:20): Stefan, Josh, and Nick Greene discuss the start of the men’s World Cup in Russia, including exuberant Spanish-language goal calls, the World Cup debut of replay review, and whether American fans should root for archrival Mexico.
U.S. Open (25:28): Stefan, Josh, and Jim Newell assess Brooks Koepka’s back-to-back wins at the U.S. Open, Phil Mickelson’s weird, possibly unethical putt, and everyone’s whining about the difficulty of the Shinnecock Hills course.
Red Card (43:00): Stefan and Josh interview Ken Bensinger about how the U.S. got involved in investigating FIFA and what it was like to hang out at Sepp Blatter’s house.
Afterballs (1:01:12):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.5 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of June 18th, 2018. |
| 0:20.5 | On this week's show, we'll be joined by Slate's Nick Green to talk about the opening |
| 0:24.5 | week of the World Cup, where in Argentina, Germany, and Brazil all came away without victories. |
| 0:30.7 | Fox Sports sent some people to Russia and left others behind to call games from a studio. |
| 0:35.9 | An instant replay, well, instant replay exists for better |
| 0:40.3 | or for worse. Our colleague Jim Newell will also be here to talk about Brooks Keppka's back-to-back |
| 0:45.7 | wins at Golf's U.S. Open and the awesome spectacle of the game's greatest players complaining |
| 0:50.8 | that the sport they play is too hard. And finally, we'll complete our delicious |
| 0:56.0 | soccer golf soccer sandwich by interviewing Ken Bensinger about his new book, Red Card, |
| 1:02.2 | how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal. Joining me in Slate's |
| 1:08.3 | Washington, D.C. studio this week is Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:14.0 | And why do you even need to be in the World Cup, Stefan, if you can blow the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal? |
| 1:19.8 | That's the greatest victory of all. |
| 1:22.2 | We win. |
| 1:23.9 | USA. |
| 1:24.7 | Raise the banner. |
| 1:25.9 | Wins the World Cup. |
| 1:27.7 | Before we get started, Stefan, I want to thank Tiddly Winks 239 for the five-star review on iTunes. |
| 1:35.1 | Review title, best podcast ever. |
| 1:37.1 | Review text. |
| 1:38.0 | Love you guys. |
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