Hang Up and Listen - The Lord Stanley's Coffee Urn Edition
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🗓️ 13 April 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about Jordan Spieth’s runaway Masters win. They also interview Sonny Vaccaro about the new documentary Sole Man. Finally, they ogle the Stanley Cup and speak to the trophy’s keeper Philip Pritchard.More at slate.com/hangupLove Slate podcasts? Listen longer with Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, ad-free versions, exclusive podcasts and more. Start your 2-week free trial at slate.com/hangupplus
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.6 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 13th, 2015. |
| 0:15.7 | On this week's show, we'll discuss Jordan Spieth, just 21 years of age, and is remarkable coming of age amid the |
| 0:22.0 | azaleas and dogwoods in full bloom at the historic Augusta National Golf Club at the Masters. |
| 0:27.7 | Then we will welcome a couple of very distinguished guests. First, we'll talk with the man |
| 0:31.7 | who's pretty much responsible for creating the multi-billion dollar basketball sneaker industry, |
| 0:36.4 | and he will admit its resultant ills. |
| 0:39.5 | Sonny Vicaro, he's the subject of a compelling new ESPN 30-for-30 documentary Soul Man. |
| 0:45.5 | Finally, with the National Hockey League playoffs upon us, we are very excited to welcome to Slate's New York Studios, |
| 0:51.1 | none other than the Stanley Cup itself. |
| 0:53.8 | Speaking on behalf of the Cup will be the keeper of the Cup, Philip Pritchard, none other than the Stanley Cup itself. Speaking on behalf of the cup will be |
| 0:55.2 | the keeper of the cup, Philip Pritchard, the curator of the Hockey Hall of Fame. In our bonus segment |
| 1:01.0 | for Slate Plus members, we'll bat around that seven-hour 19-inning, 628 pitch. They shoot horses, |
| 1:07.8 | don't they, baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. It was, of course, a metaphor for life. Sign up for Slate Plus at slate.com slash hangup plus and get access to this and other podcast bonus segments. You can get a free two-week trial at slate.com slash hangup plus. It's a three-city panelist lineup this week. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm in Washington. |
| 1:29.8 | I'm the author of the book Word Freak, which I mentioned so that I can plug the fact that after many years, Word Freak is finally an audiobook. It's available at audible.com. I have some free copies to distribute, so we'll need to figure out a way to do that in the coming weeks. Our host, Slate's executive editor, Josh Levine, is in Chicago where he's doing what's known |
| 1:46.8 | in the business as reporting. |
| 1:49.0 | Hi, Josh. |
| 1:50.1 | Hi, are you sitting in my chair? |
| 1:52.0 | I'm sitting in your chair. |
| 1:53.1 | Where are you sitting? |
| 1:54.5 | I'm under the covers because it sounds better, according to a producer who's probably |
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