Hang Up and Listen - The Trickless Hungarian Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin is joined by Slate’s Justin Peters and the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Cohen to talk about Elizabeth Swaney, Ester Ledecka, Nathan Chen, and more from the Olympics. PhillyVoice’s Kyle Neubeck also joins to discuss what’s wrong with Markelle Fultz.
Winter Olympics (:59): Josh, Ben Cohen, and Justin Peters talk about the United States’ relatively tiny medal count in Pyeongchang and Norway’s enormous haul. They also discuss Nathan Chen’s “quad-ification” of figure skating and the rights and wrongs of Olympic tourism. Markelle Fultz
Afterballs (55:32)
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:17.5 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 20th, 2018. |
| 0:25.0 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about a whole bunch of Olympic stuff. |
| 0:28.7 | The United States is lousy metal count, the return of the shirtless Tongan, American hero Michaela Schifrin, and the rise of the quad jump in figure skating. |
| 0:39.3 | Will we get to all of that? |
| 0:40.8 | I would listen to the show, if I were you, to find out. |
| 0:43.6 | For the final segment of the show, I will also be joined by Kyle Newbeck of Philly Voice, |
| 0:49.0 | who will discuss the Enigma of Markell Fultz, the Philadelphia 76ers rookie, |
| 0:53.8 | who went number one in the NBA draft |
| 0:55.7 | and has since disappeared from view. |
| 0:59.1 | The Shibutani to my Shibitani, Stefan Fatsis, is out this week, but I'm thrilled to be joined |
| 1:04.6 | again by the Guilla Cizzerone to my Gabriella Papadacus. |
| 1:09.4 | Justin Peters, he's blogging the Olympics for Slate. Hello, Justin. |
| 1:13.7 | Hey, Josh. How's it going? It's going very well. And with us from Pyong Chang, South Korea, |
| 1:19.7 | is the Wall Street Journal's Ben Cohen, a man who combines the fierceness of Tessa Virtue and the |
| 1:25.6 | lustrous brown hair of Scott Moyer. Hello, Ben. Hello. I'm glad I'm both |
| 1:31.2 | because I was going to ask which one I was and I was going to prefer to be both. So I'm glad that's how I'm |
| 1:35.9 | introduced. Here's my first question for you as we begin the show. What is it like to watch |
| 1:41.8 | ice dancing in person? I know you were there yesterday or today, |
| 1:46.4 | whatever the whole day it is. Yeah, I don't know what day it is either. It's not the same as figure |
| 1:52.6 | skating, and especially not the same as men's figure skating, because you kind of get used to |
| 1:58.5 | watching the guys do all of these incredible jumps, and the entire |
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