Hang Up and Listen - The Cry for Argentina Edition
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🗓️ 27 June 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Stefan Fatsis and Mike Pesca are joined by Sam Borden to discuss Messi’s retirement announcement and the Euros. They talk to NBA agent Doug Neustadt about the international players. Finally, Josh Levin and Stefan interview Olympic boxer Claressa Shields.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.6 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis and Mrs. Slate's sports podcast. Hang up and listen for the week of June 27th, 2016. |
| 0:16.2 | We have a multi-guest show for you this week. First, we'll discuss Leonel Messi's alleged retirement from Argentina's national soccer |
| 0:23.5 | team after its shock loss to Chile in the Copa America Centenario Final plus Euro-16 |
| 0:29.8 | and sports brexit. |
| 0:31.2 | We'll do that with New York Times sports writer Sam Borden. |
| 0:34.3 | Then we'll be joined by an NBA player agent, Doug Neustadt, to talk about the record number of international players taken in last week's draft, including his client, the fourth pick Dragan Bender of Croatia. |
| 0:45.9 | And finally, we're very excited to welcome to the show, boxer Cloressa Shields. The 21-year-old from Flint, Michigan, will be going for back-to-back Olympic gold medals in Rio, and she's the subject of a new documentary titled T-Rex. That's her nickname. Slade executive editor Josh Levine is out. I'm in Washington. Mike Pesca, aka the Ajuga Seratops, is in Brooklyn. He's the host of Slade's Daily podcast, The Gist, with Mike Pesca. |
| 1:12.1 | Hi, Mike. Is that a good dinosaur nickname for you? Would that be your choice? I used to be a bronthosaurus. Then I was told that didn't exist, so I became an apodosaurus. Then I was retroactively told I did exist. And so then I went with that one, you said. Aguja serotops. What is Aguja? What does that mean? |
| 1:27.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm looking it up. |
| 1:29.3 | Well, it's a jug. |
| 1:30.5 | Hold on. |
| 1:30.9 | A jug. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah. Aguja seratops. What is a goja? What does that mean? |
| 1:28.0 | I don't know. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm looking it up. |
| 1:42.4 | Well, it's a juga. Hold on. A juga. Yes, it's a triceratops with a yarmaca. It's a jugus seratops. No, it's an aguja seratops. It's a, a goja. Okay. A guja. Yeah. You're very Gucci. |
| 1:44.6 | All right, on our bonus segment for Slate Plus members, |
| 1:45.9 | we'll discuss the National Hockey League's decision to award Las Vegas, its first professional sports franchise, and what other sports franchises should be in Las Vegas. |
| 1:55.0 | To hear this bonus segment and others like it on Hangup and Listen and various other Slate shows, |
| 1:59.5 | sign up for Slate Plus at slate.com slash |
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