Hang Up and Listen - The Lions Are Winners
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs. They also talk about the departures of coaching legends Nick Saban, Bill Belichick, and Pete Carroll. Finally, Ben Rothenberg joins to discuss his new biography of tennis star Naomi Osaka.
NFL playoffs (3:17): How did the Detroit Lions franchise turn itself around?
Saban, Belichick, and Carroll (26:03): What do these coaching greats have in common and how do they differ from each other?
Osaka (48:09): A deep dive into a modern sports icon.
Afterball (1:14:22): Remembering Chris Laskowski.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:02.8 | If you want to know how explicit, keep listening. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 16th |
| 0:23.8 | 2024. On this week show we'll dig into the opening weekend of the NFL |
| 0:28.5 | playoffs where the Lions won their first post-season game in more than 30 years and the Cowboys and Eagles bombed out. |
| 0:36.8 | We'll also talk about Nick Sabin's retirement and Bill Bellicheck saying goodbye to New England |
| 0:41.5 | and possibly hello to Atlanta. |
| 0:44.3 | Finally Ben Rothenburg will join us to discuss his new biography of Naomi Osaka |
| 0:49.2 | who just rejoin the tour as a new mother after a year away from professional tennis. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C. and I'm the author of the Queen and the tallest person on this show. |
| 0:59.0 | Also in D.C. is Stephen Fatsis. |
| 1:01.0 | He is the author of the book's Word Freak, a few seconds of panic and wild |
| 1:04.6 | and outside. Hello, Stephen. |
| 1:06.0 | And the shortest person on the show. I was waiting for it. Come on. |
| 1:10.3 | I wasn't. No, I wasn't thinking about that at all and with us from California the host of three |
| 1:15.6 | seasons of Slo Baron it's the average height of Joel Anderson I think 511 is |
| 1:21.2 | two inches taller than the medium. |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah, that's exactly above average in terms of height. |
| 1:27.4 | I think of you as uniformly excellent, not slightly above average. |
| 1:32.1 | Don't sell yourself short. |
| 1:33.4 | Well, thanks. |
| 1:34.2 | Well, I mean, you're the one that assigned me, |
| 1:36.6 | sort of average heighted, so I wanted to just make sure |
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