Hang Up and Listen - The So Many Interceptions Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Ringer’s Kevin Clark to talk about NFL quarterback play and the Root’s Damon Young discusses Donald Trump’s feud with Lavar Ball. Plus: Slate’s June Thomas joins for an interview with swimmer Diana Nyad.
Quarterbacks (2:00): Kevin Clark comes on for a conversation about Nathan Peterman’s extraordinarily bad debut as an NFL starter, plus the second-year surge of Carson Wentz, and the prognosis for Dak Prescott and Jared Goff.
Lavar Ball vs. Donald Trump (21:22): Damon Young helps assess the feud between the basketball dad and the president of the United States. Plus, who’s right and who’s wrong in the war of words between Draymond Green and Mark Cuban about what we should call NBA “owners”?
Diana Nyad (43:18): The record-setting marathon swimmer discusses her recent New York Times piece, “My Life After Sexual Assault.”
Afterballs (52:02):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:15.2 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 20th, 2017. |
| 0:22.5 | On this week's show, Kevin Clark of the Ringer will join us to talk about the power |
| 0:26.0 | and the glory of Nathan Peterman's five first half interceptions for the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. |
| 0:32.2 | We'll also talk about the outlook for second year quarterbacks, Carson Wince, |
| 0:36.6 | Dak Prescott, and Jared Gough. |
| 0:38.7 | We'll also be joined by Damon Young. He's a senior editor at The Root. We'll talk about a couple of |
| 0:43.6 | nominally basketball-related feuds, the first between Donald Trump and Lovar Ball, |
| 0:48.5 | about whether you should leave someone in a Chinese prison, if that person's father isn't nice |
| 0:53.1 | to you. The second between Mark Cuban |
| 0:55.3 | and Draymond Green over whether you should call the boss of a sports team and owner. |
| 1:00.4 | Finally, our slate colleague June Thomas will be here for a conversation with record-breaking |
| 1:05.4 | marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who recently wrote a powerful op-ed for the New York Times titled My Life After Sexual Assault. |
| 1:13.6 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:21.0 | I would watch a family feud episode with the Trumps and the balls. |
| 1:26.9 | That would be good television. Yeah. President would like that. You know what we're not going to talk about today, Josh? We're not going to talk about the fact that there were two scorerami in the NFL yesterday, which was very exciting. That's upsetting for you. They were not going to talk about that. Well, we're talking about it now. My condolences. And the Scrabble scandal from last week that broke after the taping of our podcast. |
| 1:48.1 | Right. Big scandal. Every five years, sort of there's a scandal. |
| 1:53.5 | Cheating. Bad. Don't do it. Is that your lesson for young Scrabbleers? Don't do it. |
| 1:59.9 | On Sunday in Los Angeles, the Buffalo Bills rookie quarterback Nathan Peterman, making his debut as an NFL starter, threw an interception for a touchdown on his first drive of the game. |
| 2:11.1 | Peterman then immediately ran back out on the field and threw another interception. Unbowed. On the next bill's drive, LaShawn McCoy, |
| 2:19.4 | who is good, ran twice for 64 yards in a touchdown. But then on the drive after that, |
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