Hang Up and Listen - The NFL’s Final Game Tankapalooza
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🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about Washington’s win over Philadelphia on Sunday Night Football. They also discuss Alabama and Ohio State’s victories in the College Football Playoff and ESPN’s Mechelle Voepel joins for a conversation about the Duke women’s basketball team opting out of the season.
NFL (01:28): Did the Eagles commit fraud in their loss to Washington or was it all just a big laugh?
College Football Playoff (19:27): On Justin Fields, Ryan Day, Dabo Swinney, Nick Saban, DeVonta Smith, Najee Harris, Brian Kelly and the other heroes and villains of the CFP.
Duke women’s basketball (37:14): Why did the players opt out? What happens next?
Afterball (55:58): Stefan remembers Penn Quaker Kevin Warren.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.2 | Hide your children. |
| 0:10.7 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor. |
| 0:13.3 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 4th, 2021. |
| 0:17.4 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the hilarious terribleness slash terrible hilarity |
| 0:23.6 | of the Washington football team's triumph over Philadelphia in the final game of the NFL |
| 0:28.4 | regular season. We'll also discuss Alabama and Ohio State's victories in the college football |
| 0:33.2 | playoff semis and their matchup in next week's final. In ESPN's Michelle Vopal will join us to assess the Duke women's basketball team's |
| 0:40.9 | decision to opt out of the season. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of Slow Burn season four |
| 0:47.6 | on David Duke. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and a few |
| 0:53.2 | seconds of panic. |
| 0:54.5 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 0:55.5 | Hey, Josh. |
| 0:56.4 | Neither hilariously terrible nor terribly hilarious. |
| 0:59.9 | Put that on your CV. |
| 1:01.3 | With us from Palo Alto, Slate Staff Rider, host of Slow Burns Season 3 and 6. |
| 1:07.6 | Joel Anderson, what would you not put on your CV, Joel? |
| 1:10.3 | Well, I haven't even put Slate on my latest CV. |
| 1:14.9 | I've got a long way to go. |
| 1:17.5 | Well, while you work on that, maybe I will read the introduction for our first segment. |
| 1:24.0 | How's that said? |
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