Hang Up and Listen - The Extremely Cold Feet Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin talk with ESPN’s Sam Borden about Christian Pulisic’s Chelsea debut. The Gist’s Mike Pesca also joins to discuss Antonio Brown’s feet and helmet issues, and Rebecca Schuman explains Simone Biles’ latest feats of gymnastics virtuosity.
Christian Pulisic (01:30): What lessons, if any, can we take from Pulisic’s first Premier League match? Antonio Brown (18:04): What’s behind the Raiders receiver’s odd behavior? Simone Biles (35:57): Whythe greatest gymnast ever is the greatest gymnast ever. Afterballs (52:44): Mike on the joys of good baseball, Stefan on youth sports in 1980, and Josh on running through a brick wall.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello, I am Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen, and this is Slate's |
| 0:13.2 | Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen. It is the week of August 12, 2019. On this week's |
| 0:18.2 | show, ESPN's Sam Borden will be here to talk about Christian Policic's debut in the Premier League, in which has club Chelsea lost by a lot of goals. |
| 0:27.7 | The dearly departed but still alive, Mike Pesco will come on the show to help us assess the frost-bitten helmet-diliking Raiders receiver Antonio Brown. |
| 0:37.2 | And Rebecca Schumann will join for a |
| 0:38.6 | conversation about the latest feats of brilliance from the greatest gymnast of all time, Simone Biles. |
| 0:45.0 | Joining me in Slate's Washington, DC Studio, is the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds |
| 0:49.4 | of panic, the one and only. Stefan Fatsis, hello, Stefan. Hey, Josh. How are your feet? Feet are good. Better than Antonio Brown's. Man, that is some nasty stuff. I think it was Deadspin who noted that there was a chunk of the bottom of his foot missing in the shape of a tortilla chip. If you want to confirm that, go online, search for Antonio Brown's feet and do your worst. I mean, it's not that complicated to describe. |
| 1:12.2 | I mean, tortilla chip is excellent. |
| 1:13.5 | It's basically if you've ever had skin peel off |
| 1:15.9 | and gotten hard before you rip it off, |
| 1:17.6 | but then extend it to the entire bottom of your foot. |
| 1:21.3 | That's what Antonio Brown's feet look like. |
| 1:23.6 | Tune in for that segment later on Hang Up and Listen. |
| 1:27.2 | But first, soccer. |
| 1:29.8 | In a lengthy profile of Christian Policic earlier this month, ESPN's Sam Borden wrote that the 20-year-old American soccer star ceiling isn't Landon Donovan anymore. |
| 1:41.3 | It's Leonel Messi. |
| 1:42.9 | No such comparisons were made after Policic made his |
| 1:45.6 | Premier League debut on Sunday at Powerhouse Chelsea, which paid $73 million to bring him over |
| 1:52.0 | from the German Bundesliga. Polisic played the final 35 minutes of a 4-0-0 route at the |
| 1:58.2 | hands of fellow English Titans Manchester United. Sam Borden is with us now. Welcome back to the show, Sam. Thanks very much, guys. I appreciate you having me. I didn't think this was an awful debut. Policic gave the ball away a few times, once leading to a United counterattack and goal. But he also showed off his lightning speed. He threaded a few nice passes. He created a |
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