Hang Up and Listen - The Most Alarming Feet I’ve Ever Seen Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Courtney Nguyen to talk about Naomi Osaka’s Australian Open win. The Wall Street Journal’s Louise Radnofsky also joins to assess the U.S. figure skating championships, and the Washington Post’s Candace Buckner discusses NBA players’ feet.
Naomi Osaka (6:22): The 21-year-old backed up her U.S. Open victory with a second grand slam title. Has Osaka matured in the last five months, and how should we reconcile her shyness and on-court toughness?
Figure skating (22:50): What you need to know about U.S. champions Alysa Liu (she’s 13!) and Nathan Chen. Plus, Gracie Gold opened up about her battle with depression.
NBA feet (44:01): Everything you maybe don’t want to know about basketball players’ disgusting toes.
Afterballs(58:55): Stefan on the Dane who invented modern team handball and Josh on the biggest feet in NBA history.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 28th, 2018. |
| 0:18.0 | On this week's show, Courtney Nguyen of the WTA Insider and No Challenges remaining |
| 0:24.1 | podcast will be here to talk to us about Naomi Osaka, who backed up her bizarro win over |
| 0:30.3 | Serena Williams at last year's U.S. Open with a triumph at the Australian Open. |
| 0:35.2 | Louise Radnowski of the Wall Street Journal will also chat with us about the new |
| 0:39.5 | U.S. figure skating champions, 13-year-old Alyssa Liu, and 19-year-old Nathan Chen, as well as |
| 0:46.5 | former champion Gracie Gold and her battle with depression. |
| 0:50.6 | Finally, Candice Buckner of The Washington Post will join the pod to share the deep and dark and smelly secrets of NBA players' feet. |
| 0:59.8 | Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio was Stefan Fatsis, author of The Books, Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:08.3 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:09.2 | Hey, Josh. |
| 1:10.8 | Who had the best feet in the Broncos locker room? Oof. seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hey, Josh. |
| 1:13.4 | Who had the best feet in the Broncos locker room? |
| 1:15.7 | Oof, you know what players would do? |
| 1:17.9 | I can't remember whose feet exactly were the most disgusting. |
| 1:28.6 | But what players would do is they would cut a little slit in the front of their cleats to allow more movement for the toes so they don't get jammed up quite as much as they would otherwise. Good, good tip. Everybody cut slits in your shoes right now. But the downside was |
| 1:36.0 | when someone stepped on your foot and went right through the slit. Don't cut slits in your shoes. |
| 1:41.3 | I was told. I want to do a little bit of chitchat about the Anthony Davis news that just came out on Monday |
| 1:49.5 | morning. |
| 1:50.1 | He has requested a trade. |
| 1:52.3 | And this is not one of those sources say. |
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