Hang Up and Listen - The Our Hero Rapinoe Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin, Stefan Fatsis, and Caitlin Murray discuss the U.S. women’s big win over France at the World Cup. Josh, Ben Mathis-Lilley, and Vinson Cunningham break down the big moves in NBA free agency. Finally, Josh and Ben are joined by the Guardian’s Nick Miller to assess baseball in London.
Women’s World Cup (01:43): Breaking down the USA-France match and previewing the semifinal between the U.S. and England. NBA free agency (29:14):
Baseball in London (51:32): A Brit on what it was like to watch the Boston Red Sox play the New York Yankees in England.
Afterballs (67:35): Ben on the Knicks and Josh on a plane crash in Carroll, Iowa.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:17.2 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 1st, 2019. |
| 0:24.2 | On this week's show, writer Caitlin Murray will join us to discuss the U.S. women's national team's big World Cup win over France and how Megan Rapino has become a hero and a lightning rod. |
| 0:36.4 | The New Yorkers Vincent Cunning, will also be here to talk |
| 0:39.2 | about the first day of NBA free agency in which Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving moved to Brooklyn, |
| 0:44.8 | and players agreed to more than $3 billion in contracts. Way to go players. Finally, the Guardian's |
| 0:51.8 | Nick Miller will be here to provide a British perspective on the two-game series in London between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, American baseball teams. |
| 1:02.5 | Joining me now from Leon France, where he's conducting reconnaissance on England before Tuesday's World Cup semifinal between the lionesses and the United States of America. |
| 1:12.8 | It's Stefan Fatsas, author of The Book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:17.1 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:17.9 | Hello, Josh. |
| 1:19.1 | Maybe we'll get to the dumb controversy about Americans allegedly spying on Brits in their hotels. |
| 1:25.5 | Should we save that for the segment, Stefan? Oh, yeah. It's supremely |
| 1:30.0 | dumb and very silly season, dead time before a big game. So yes, let's save that and discuss it. |
| 1:37.6 | Okay. Agreed. Done. Let's move on. On Friday in Paris, the U.S. women's national team beat France, its main rival for the 2019 World Cup title. |
| 1:51.4 | Megan Rapino scored both goals for the U.S. and its two-to-one quarterfinal win. |
| 1:56.3 | Joining us now from Leone to talk about the game and the team is Caitlin Murray, who's been writing about |
| 2:01.4 | the World Cup for the Guardian, who's the author also of the book The National Team, |
| 2:06.4 | The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer. Welcome, Caitlin. |
| 2:10.3 | Sure, thanks for having me. So you were at the game on Friday, as was Stefan. Let's start |
| 2:16.8 | with the atmosphere, Caitlin. What was it like in the stadium? |
| 2:22.2 | And kind of how can you contextualize it for folks who were not at the game and we're just watching |
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