Hang Up and Listen - The Coco Gauff Hype Train
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin, Stefan Fatsis, and Vinson Cunningham are joined by Ben Mathis-Lilley to discuss his new book on college football, The Hot Seat. They also discuss the hype around American tennis star Coco Gauff and review the soccer documentary Welcome to Wrexham.
The Hot Seat (2:14): Why does college football make so many of us insane?
Coco Gauff (24:54): Is the publicity warranted, or is too much for an 18-year-old to handle?
Welcome to Wrexham (47:60): Does the story of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying a soccer team make for good TV?
Afterball (1:06:51): Josh on drinking beer through a hot dog straw.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
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| 0:25.0 | Enter free draws to win event tickets from designated list |
| 0:28.0 | To win per week, restrictions and TNC's apply. |
| 0:30.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, |
| 0:33.0 | not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q. |
| 0:38.0 | Music |
| 0:52.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine. |
| 0:54.0 | It's late's national editor and this is hang up and listen for the week of August 29th, 2022. |
| 0:59.0 | On this week's show, it's late's Ben Mathis. |
| 1:02.0 | Lily will join us to talk about his new book, The Hot Seat. |
| 1:05.0 | On why college football makes some of us completely insane and sometimes happy too. |
| 1:11.0 | We'll also discuss how Coco Gough is being positioned as America's next tennis superstar |
| 1:16.0 | and we'll review Welcome to Rexham, a new documentary about a couple of Hollywood actors |
| 1:22.0 | buying a 5th tier Welsh soccer club. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm in Washington DC and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast one year. |
| 1:29.0 | Subscribe now. Also in DC, Stefan Fatsis, he's the author of the book's word freak, |
| 1:34.0 | a few seconds of panic, wild and outside. |
| 1:37.0 | Hey Stefan, hello. |
| 1:39.0 | Not in DC. |
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