Hang Up and Listen - The Coco Gauff Hype Train
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 72 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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| 0:30.3 | The following podcast includes explicit language not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 29, 2022. |
| 0:59.7 | On this week's Ben Mathis Lily will join us to talk about his new book, The Hot Seat on why college |
| 1:06.0 | football makes some of us completely insane and sometimes happy to. |
| 1:11.3 | We'll also discuss how Coco Gough is being positioned as America's next tennis |
| 1:15.4 | superstar and we'll review Welcome to Wrexham, a new documentary but a couple of |
| 1:20.7 | Hollywood actors buying a fifth tier Welsh soccer club. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C. and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the |
| 1:28.1 | podcast one year. |
| 1:29.7 | Subscribe now. Also in D.C. Stephen Fatsis, he is the author of the book's Word Freak, A Few |
| 1:34.8 | Seconds of Panic, Wild and Outside. Hey, Stephen, hello. Not in DC. You're not in DC. |
| 1:41.1 | I'm in Belmont, Massachusetts. |
| 1:43.0 | We're just going to leave that in. We've come too far. |
| 1:45.0 | How are you, Stephan? |
| 1:46.0 | Good. |
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