Hang Up and Listen - The Phenomenal Young Gentleman Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Slate’s Nick Greene to discuss the NFL’s wild card weekend. Jonathan Tjarks of the Ringer also joins to talk about James Harden and Roger Bennett of Men in Blazers assesses Chelsea’s acquisition of Christian Pulisic.
NFL playoffs (1:56): Lamar Jackson was bad, Cody Parkey doinked another field goal, and more happening from the opening weekend of the pro football postseason.
James Harden (21:30): The Houston Rockets guard is shooting 3-pointers at a record-setting rate. Can he possible sustain this pace?
Christian Pulisic (36:38): How much did marketing factor into Chelsea’s decision to sign the young American? And is the English mega-club the right place for the 20-year-old to develop his game?
Afterballs(47:25): Stefan on ties (they’re OK!) and Josh on college football’s targeting rule (it’s bad!)
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of January 7th, 2019. |
| 0:16.7 | On this week's show, our colleague Nick Green, will join us to discuss the NFL's wild card weekend, |
| 0:21.9 | wherein Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was pretty pretty bad. And Bears kicker, Cody Parky, |
| 0:28.2 | doanked a football off and upright again. Jonathan Charks of the Ringer will also be here to talk |
| 0:33.7 | about the offensive wizardry of the Houston Rockets James Hardin. And man in blazer, Roger Bennett, will tell us what we need to talk about the offensive wizardry of the Houston Rockets James Hardin, and Man in Blazer |
| 0:38.9 | Roger Bennett will tell us what we need to know about the $73 million deal to bring American |
| 0:44.5 | soccer star Christian Polisic to Chelsea of the Premier League. |
| 0:49.3 | Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio with Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic, heroically fighting through throat soreness, the first show of the New Year. Hello, Stefan. You are too, Josh. Oh, yeah. You're just not saying it. You're just not mentioning it. You're just going out there and doing your job. I sound a little better than you, I must say. Yeah. So I feel good about that. |
| 1:11.8 | That's great. |
| 1:12.8 | Congratulations are in order, Josh. |
| 1:14.9 | Your book, your new book, the queen is available for pre-order. |
| 1:19.7 | It is. |
| 1:20.2 | Tell us a little more about how you can pre-order your new book, the queen, which is out in May. |
| 1:26.5 | Just go on the internet and Google it. |
| 1:29.1 | Then click, click the thing. It's the Queen. Has nothing to do with sports. Pre-order it now. So I wouldn't dare talk about it on this show, but do pre-order it. I should also say we're not going to talk about the college football title game between Alabama and Clemson. as a wise man one said when you have a podcast that comes out on mondays you have a podcast that comes out on mondays |
| 1:47.3 | so we between Alabama and Clemson. As a wise man once said, when you have a podcast that comes out on |
| 1:45.2 | Mondays, you have a podcast that comes out on Mondays. So we were unable to talk about that contest. |
| 1:51.7 | But enjoy watching it. I wish you well in your TV experience. |
| 1:58.0 | The Colts, Cowboys, Chargers, and Eagles were the winners on the NFL's Wild Card Weekend, |
| 2:04.2 | with the latter to emerging victorious and ways that suit themselves better to conversation in the podcast chat show format. |
| 2:13.0 | We'll get to Ravens Chargers in a bit, but first, the Philadelphia Eagles, who you might remember |
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