Hang Up and Listen - The Perverse Ingenuity Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2016
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin and Mike Pesca are joined by Slate’s Tommy Craggs to discuss Laremy Tunsil. Rob Tanner of the Leicester Mercury also joins to talk about Leicester City, and Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller discuss their book The Only Rule Is It Has to Work.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of Hang Up and Listen is supported by Goldman Sachs. |
| 0:03.5 | To learn about developments currently shaping markets, industries, and the global economy, |
| 0:07.6 | subscribe to the firm's podcast, exchanges at Goldman Sachs, available on iTunes. |
| 0:12.6 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:20.8 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 2, 2016. |
| 0:26.8 | On today's show, Tommy Craggs of Slate.com will join us to talk about the strangest NFL draft night ever in which Laramie Tunsel stock tumbled after someone leaked a video of him smoking weed via a gas mask. |
| 0:40.1 | We'll also be joined by Rob Tanner of the Lester Mercury to discuss the English soccer club, Lester City's near-clinching of the Premier League title, |
| 0:48.7 | The Biggest Underdog Story, and the history of sports 5,001 odds. |
| 0:53.2 | And finally, Ben Lindberg and Sam Miller will be here to discuss their new book. |
| 0:57.5 | The only rule is it has to work about how a couple of smart Internet sports writers named Ben Lindberg and Sam Miller took over an indie league baseball team and implemented a bunch of statistical mumbo jumbo. |
| 1:10.9 | Stefan Fatsis is out this week, but with me from New York is Mike Pesca, a man who has another |
| 1:15.9 | podcast. |
| 1:16.4 | It's called The Gist. |
| 1:17.3 | He's one of leading, what am I trying to say? |
| 1:22.0 | Something about mumbo-jumbo. |
| 1:23.6 | It sounds like you were almost saying the word genital. |
| 1:26.4 | Did you see A-Rod rubbing the bat against his genitals last night? |
| 1:31.3 | He can't help it, given the surface area of his genitals. |
| 1:34.6 | You know, on the gist today, we have Buzz Aldrin. |
| 1:37.3 | Guess what sport he excelled at in high school? |
| 1:40.1 | Not golf. |
| 1:41.0 | And at West Point. |
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