Hang Up and Listen - The Three-Body Problem Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by The Athletic’s Ethan Strauss to discuss the Warriors and Zion Williamson. NFL retiree and mathematician John Urschel also joins to talk about his book Mind and Matter. Finally, Louisa Thomas assesses tennis player Nick Kyrgios.
NBA (4:21): Are the Warriors better without Kevin Durant? Should Zion Williamson spurn the Pelicans?
John Urschel (29:14): Why he decided to leave pro football to focus on his math career.
Nick Kyrgios (52:10): The tennis star is enigmatic and temperamental. Should he quit the sport?
Afterballs (1:10:04): Josh on old people who make lots of free throws and Stefan on the dean of old-man-softball players.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.5 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of May 20th, 2019. |
| 0:21.0 | On this week's show, we'll talk about Zion and the New Orleans Pelicans and also Janus and the Milwaukee Box, though not very much, and Steph and the Golden State Warriors. |
| 0:29.9 | Former Baltimore Ravens linemen and MIT Mathematics PhD candidate John Urchall will be here to discuss his new book, Mind and Matter. |
| 0:38.8 | Finally, Louisa Thomas of the New Yorker will help us understand the mind of Nick Curios, |
| 0:44.8 | who threw a chair and said some controversial things last week and why that matters for men's tennis. |
| 0:51.8 | Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. Bureau is none other than Josh Levine, the magazine's |
| 0:56.9 | national editor. |
| 0:58.0 | He is raising his fist in solidarity with the podcast. |
| 1:01.8 | More important than his title, though. |
| 1:04.0 | He is the author of the Queen, The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, now out in hardcover. |
| 1:13.9 | I guess tomorrow, really. Pub date is Tuesday, May 21st. Yeah. Do you want to update us? I can, I've got a little banter here, unless you want to go |
| 1:19.4 | right into the hard. I have a couple things. I have a couple things I could say. Okay, go ahead. |
| 1:24.3 | So if you subscribe to the Hang Up and Listen Feed, you will have heard the first |
| 1:29.3 | episode of The Queen podcast. Those are coming out every Monday for four weeks. But I just wanted to, |
| 1:36.5 | you know, I haven't heard from anyone that they're annoyed by book promotion on the podcast. So I'm |
| 1:43.1 | just going to like go for it full bore. |
| 1:46.0 | I've been doing this show, |
| 1:47.9 | Stefan, we've been doing this show for like 10 years now. |
| 1:50.2 | And I've been working on this book for six. |
| 1:54.0 | I've been working, I started working on the article to turn into the book in 2012. |
| 1:57.6 | So for the majority of the time I've been doing the podcast, I've had this kind of second |
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