Hang Up and Listen - The Coco Gauff Hype Train
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🗓️ 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 | The monopoly game is back at McDonald's, and guess what? It's still twice as nice, because |
| 0:04.6 | with double peel, you can peel on pack. Then peel a game on the McDonald's app, to when |
| 0:08.8 | prizes like, brand new mini-electrics, lovely McDonald's food, HBO and gaming laptops, |
| 0:14.5 | to be holiday vouchers, a thousand pounds in cash, plus tons of other incredible prizes. |
| 0:19.3 | 18 plus UK only selected items, subjects of serving times and availability, and 17th |
| 0:26.0 | October. Game play and prize claims may require McDonald's app, seemingly rules.co.uk. |
| 0:30.2 | The following podcast includes explicit language, not restricted to words, beginning with |
| 0:35.2 | F, S, B and Q. |
| 0:44.8 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine. It's blades national editor and this is |
| 0:55.6 | hang up and listen for the week of August 29th, 2022. On this week's show, Slate's Ben |
| 1:01.3 | Mathis Lilly will join us to talk about his new book, The Hot Seat, on why college football |
| 1:06.4 | makes some of us completely insane and sometimes happy too. We'll also discuss how Coco Gough |
| 1:13.2 | is being positioned as America's next tennis superstar, and we'll review Welcome to |
| 1:17.9 | Rexham, a new documentary about a couple of Hollywood actors, buying a 5th tier Welsh soccer |
| 1:24.7 | club. I'm in Washington DC and I'm the author of The Queen and the Host of the Podcast |
| 1:28.8 | One Year. Subscribe now. Also in DC, Stefan Fatsis, he's the author of the book's word freak, |
| 1:34.5 | few seconds of panic, wild and outside. Hey Stefan, hello. Not in DC. You're not in DC. |
| 1:41.1 | I'm in Belmont, Massachusetts. We're just going to leave that in. We've come too far. How are you, |
| 1:46.2 | Stefan? Good. Good. All right. Great. And with us from New York, is Vincent coming out? |
| 1:52.1 | Do you want to more specific answers or ask a more specific question? He's a staff writer and |
| 1:56.2 | theater critic for the New Yorker. Vincent, how is how's Stefan? You know, he seems to be having |
| 2:02.2 | a great time. His hair is looking good today. It's the magic of gel. In our Slate Plus segment, |
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