Hang Up and Listen - The Why Luck Left Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Jake Plummer and Nate Jackson to talk about Andrew Luck’s retirement; Billy Cundiff discusses the Chicago Bears’ bizarre kicker tryouts; and Slate’s Christina Cauterucci helps assess the state of the National Women’s Soccer League. Andrew Luck (01:53): What Luck’s sudden departure from the sport says about him and about football. Kicker tryouts (24:57): The right and wrong to audition kickers at an NFL training camp. NWSL (42:00): WhatSaturday’s huge crowd in Washington, D.C. says about the path forward for women’s pro soccer. Afterballs (59:56): Stefan on female placekickers and Josh on a pitcher who got struck by lightning.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen, and this is Slate's |
| 0:13.5 | Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 26, 2019. On this week's show, former NFL players Jake Plummer and Nate Jackson will |
| 0:23.2 | join us to talk about Colts quarterback Andrew Luck's shocking retirement and what that |
| 0:28.0 | retirement says about luck and about the NFL. Longtime NFL place kicker, Billy Kundiff, |
| 0:33.4 | will also be here to discuss the Chicago Bears' long-running bizarre and questionably successful |
| 0:39.0 | spate of tryouts to bring in a new kicker. |
| 0:42.4 | And Slate's Christina Cotterucci will join us to assess the state of the National Women's |
| 0:46.2 | Soccer League and our hometown Washington spirit, which just got a record crowd on Saturday. |
| 0:52.1 | Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio is the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. It is Stefan Fatsis. Hey, Josh. A little pause there. Made me worry, but you're here. I was waiting for you to say hi first. Hi. Hi. This is like my ideal. This is like the Stefan Fatsis show. We've got two of my former Broncos buddies. Stars of a few seconds of panic. Stars of a few seconds of panic. A kicker and women's soccer. I'm glad to help make that happen for you. This is like a craft brewed podcast for me. I don't know if we should tell the listeners that we already recorded the show. and we're just doing this after. We never |
| 1:27.7 | reveal things like that. We never show our cards in that way, but I think we can say that we're happy with how this week's show came out. Yes, it was a good show. You can leave now. Please don't. You know what? Another good show is going to be Mike Peska at the Bell House in Brooklyn Monday, September 16th. |
| 1:42.9 | Just Comedy Special. |
| 1:44.8 | Hari Konda Bowler will be there. |
| 1:46.5 | 20 bucks. |
| 1:47.4 | Slate.com slash... Pesca at the Bell House in Brooklyn, Monday, September 16th. Gist Comedy Special. |
| 1:46.3 | Hari Kondobola will be there. |
| 1:47.1 | 20 bucks. |
| 1:48.6 | Slate.com slash live. |
| 1:49.8 | Support Pesca. |
| 1:50.8 | Comedy. |
| 1:51.6 | It'll be good. |
| 1:57.8 | On Saturday night in Indianapolis, Colts quarterback Andrew Luck surprised everyone inside and outside the league when he announced he's retiring from the NFL at the age of 29. |
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