Hang Up and Listen - The I’m Kevin Durant Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss NBA playoff beefs with Slate’s Nick Greene. ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski joins to talk about the NHL playoffs. Finally, Sports Illustrated’s Jack Dickey assesses Jeopardy! genius James Holzhauer.
NBA beefs (4:07): Durant vs. Beverley.Dudley vs. Simmons. Westbrook vs. Lillard. What’s the best NBA beef, and which postseason beef needs more seasoning?
NHL playoffs (24:12): How did the Tampa Bay Lightning get bounced after putting together one of the best regular seasons ever?
James Holzhauer (40:52): The secrets of the quiz-show savant who’s destroying the Jeopardy! record books.
Afterballs (57:09): Stefan on Kate Smith and the Flyers and Josh on the first player to palm a basketball.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 22nd, 2019. |
| 0:18.4 | On this week's show, Slate's Nick Green will join us to talk about NBA playoff beef. |
| 0:23.7 | We've got Ben Simmons versus Jared Dudley, Kevin Durant versus Patrick Beverly, and everyone's |
| 0:28.9 | favorite, Russell Westbrook versus Earth. ESPN's Greg Woshensky will also be here to discuss |
| 0:34.5 | the bloodbath and the NHHL playoffs, both the metaphorical one and |
| 0:39.8 | the one that you get when Alex Ovechkin punches a guy. Finally, Sports Illustrated writer and two-time |
| 0:46.5 | Jeopardy champ Jack Dickie will help us assess the man, the machine, the moneymaker James |
| 0:52.1 | Holtsauer, who's smashing game show records at a furious pace. |
| 0:57.6 | Here with me in our Washington, D.C. studio is my co-host, Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:04.6 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:05.3 | Hey, Josh. |
| 1:06.4 | You've never tried to go in Jeopardy, right? |
| 1:08.6 | I have not. |
| 1:09.9 | Oh, no, I think maybe I did try to get on the high school tournament, the teen tournament, |
| 1:15.8 | and a girl from my high school got on. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.8 | Not me. |
| 1:21.0 | I tried to get on who wants to be a millionaire. |
| 1:23.3 | I never got past the telephone dial-on phase. |
| 1:26.7 | Could they tell that you were just annoying on television? Is that what they screen for? That is what they screen for. Yeah. Or trivia knowledge, one or the other? One or the other. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Josh, you have a book coming out. Yes, still, a month away. It's called The Queen. Thank you. Interestingly, let's talk about... We still haven't overcome the awkwardness of my introducing the show and then you having to talk about my book. We'll figure it out. We've got a few more shows to go. I could just do the introduction, and that way it would seamlessly go into me plugging the book. I like that. I like that. Maybe next week. |
| 2:01.3 | We'll try it. |
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