Hang Up and Listen - The Mystery of Kyrie Irving
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🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Josh Levin, and special guest Damon Young talk about the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. They also discuss the Brooklyn Nets’ trade for James Harden and Kyrie Irving’s absence. Finally, they review the HBO documentary Tiger.
NFL (01:49): Drew Brees, the concussion protocol, and the Chiefs’ gutsy fourth-down call.
Nets (21:51): Is Kyrie Irving just misunderstood?
Tiger (41:15): What the two-part doc reveals about Tiger Woods’ life and career.
Afterball (59:29): Joel on the time Hakeem Olajuwon wanted out of Houston.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.4 | Hide your children. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine's late national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 19th, 2021. |
| 0:18.8 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about Tom Brady, Aaron Rogers, Josh Allen, |
| 0:23.2 | Chad Hennie, and the other winners from the NFL's divisional round, we might spare a word for |
| 0:28.5 | the losers, too. We'll also discuss the Brooklyn Nets James Hardin and Kevin Durant and their |
| 0:34.4 | absent teammate, Kyrie Irving. And finally, we'll review HBO's unauthorized two-part |
| 0:40.0 | documentary Tiger on the rise and fall and rebirth of the golf legend. Apologies for the cliche. |
| 0:47.9 | Stefan Fatsis is off this week. I'm still in Washington, D.C. I'm still the author of the Queen, |
| 0:52.5 | the host of Slow Burn, Season 4. With me, as always, from Palo Alto, Slate Staff writer, the host of Slowburn |
| 0:59.4 | Season 3 and Season 6 coming up. Joel Anderson. Joel, I'm sorry that my internet is not |
| 1:05.2 | cooperating, and you cannot see me this week. Yeah, this is a real change. I usually get to see |
| 1:10.2 | Josh's face every week, and it's not |
| 1:11.9 | happening now. So I guess I have to blame the National Guard. Actually, let me blame Antifa like |
| 1:16.6 | everybody else. I guess Antifa's to blame for me not seeing Josh. Also joining us this week, |
| 1:22.2 | we're happy to say, it's Damon Young. Damon is the founder and editor-in-chief of very smart |
| 1:27.2 | brothers, senior editor at the root, |
| 1:29.5 | the author of The Excellent Memoir, What Doesn't Kill You, Makes You Blacker. |
| 1:33.9 | Damon, great to have you. |
| 1:35.2 | And if Antifa is the reason that you can't see me, but also is the reason that you're on our show this week, |
| 1:42.1 | then I think we've got to give our hats off to Antifa. |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
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