Hang Up and Listen - The Chess King Wins Again
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🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Slate’s Alex Kirshner talk about the controversial ending to the Formula 1 season. Next, they examine the opening months of college sports’ name, image, and likeness era. Finally, Stefan and Josh are joined by author and chess champion Jennifer Shahade to assess Magnus Carlsen’s latest world title.
Formula 1 (2:46): Who should’ve won the duel between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen?
NIL (22:55): How college athletes are capitalizing, and how it’s changing the game.
Chess (44:28): How Carlsen won, and what’s next for him and for the game.
Afterball (1:04:10): Josh on basketball on the Marshall Islands.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language, including the words, well, you'll just have to wait and see. |
| 0:19.3 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 13th, 2021. |
| 0:26.7 | On this week's show, we'll discuss the nutty, controversial ending to the Formula One season, |
| 0:31.7 | and whether it was nutty and controversial enough to make us Formula One fans. |
| 0:36.5 | We'll also examine the opening months of college |
| 0:39.1 | sports's name, image, and likeness era, and how they've changed the game for schools and for |
| 0:44.3 | athletes. And finally, chess champion and author Jennifer Shahad will be here to assess Norwegian |
| 0:49.8 | icon Magnus Carlson's latest world chess championship title. Our co-host, Joel Anderson, is off |
| 0:57.4 | this week. I assure you, he is busy finishing up the blockbuster season six of Slow Burn on the L.A. |
| 1:03.3 | Riots. Three more episodes to go out every Wednesday. Check it out. Here by my side, virtually |
| 1:10.1 | Stefan Fatsas. He loves in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:13.1 | He's the author of the books Wild and Outside, Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. Hey, Stefan. |
| 1:18.7 | Changing up the order of the books. |
| 1:22.1 | Going Cron. I like it. Yeah. |
| 1:25.3 | How's one year? Give us a little one-year plug. |
| 1:28.2 | You're being modest. |
| 1:29.7 | It's a great podcast. |
| 1:36.7 | How could I say other, I would love to tell you that it was just average, but it's amazing. |
| 1:37.6 | Everybody should check it out. What can we expect this week, Josh? |
| 1:41.4 | This week is our OJ episode. |
| 1:45.0 | That's not really about OJ, but the OJ trial was the big thing in 1995. |
| 1:48.0 | So this week is about a DNA dragnet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and DNA and criminal justice in 1995. |
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