Hang Up and Listen - The Not-So-Menacing Red Menace Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2015
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca are joined by Sports Illustrated‘s Alexander Wolff to talk about Dean Smith, by Nathaniel Vinton to discuss U.S. ski racers, and by Jonathan Hock for a chat about his Soviet hockey documentary Of Miracles and Men.Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup.
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| 0:00.0 | Slate's Hang Up and Listen is sponsored by The Jinks, the life and deaths of Robert Durst, the new |
| 0:05.1 | documentary series from HBO. Four decades, three murders, and one very rich man who refused to speak |
| 0:11.1 | until now. The Jinks airs Sundays at 8 only on HBO. The following podcast contains explicit |
| 0:17.7 | language. |
| 0:28.7 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of February 9th, 2015. |
| 0:37.0 | On this week's show, we'll be joined by Sports Illustrated's Alexander Wolfe to talk about the death of legendary North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith. |
| 0:42.7 | Nathaniel Vinton, author of the book The Fall Line, How American Ski Racers Conquered a Sport on the Edge. |
| 0:43.8 | We'll be here to talk about whether American ski racers are conquering the Alpine |
| 0:48.1 | skiing world championships in Colorado. |
| 0:51.0 | To finish off our guest, Apaloozaza, filmmaker John Hawk will join us for a conversation |
| 0:55.5 | about his new documentary Free SPN of Miracles and Men, which examines the U.S. hockey team's |
| 1:01.4 | triumph in 1980 from the perspective of their Soviet opponents. |
| 1:05.9 | In our bonus segment for Slate Plus members will assess Diana Tarasi's decision to skip the WNBA season after her |
| 1:12.9 | Russian team paid her more than her WNBA salary to sit out and rest. I'm all alone today in |
| 1:19.9 | Washington, D.C., but palming around with Mike Pasquette in New York is Stefan Fatsis, author |
| 1:24.9 | of The book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. The Friday sports correspondent friend Piers, all things considered. Hey, buddy. Oh, sorry, I didn't hear you. Paskin and I were too busy paling around. We were just saying something. We were having so much fun. It's devastating. You know what? We were all palsy-wowsy. Well, I've spread all my shit all over the table here. All over the hang-up table. So I feel great about myself. The table's going to tweet about that. Has the table tweeted in a while? It hasn't. It's just been loaded down with Stefan's bags. Right. It's just can't tweet. Hey, Mike. How you doing there, Joshy? |
| 2:01.6 | I'm good. |
| 2:02.3 | You're the host of Slate's Daily Podcast, The Gist, with Mike Peska. |
| 2:06.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:07.0 | Got anything great planned on the show this week? |
| 2:09.6 | We got to do more cross-promoting. |
| 2:11.9 | We're going to be analyzing world news events from a perspective of an interested observer. |
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