Hang Up and Listen - The XFL is Back
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the opening weekend of the new XFL. They also discuss the Houston Rockets’ small-ball experiment and review ESPN’s new Michael Vick documentary.
XFL (01:57): Is the latest iteration of Vince McMahon’s NFL competitor built to last?
Rockets (22:48): Is playing super-duper small a smart idea, a desperate ploy, or a smart idea that’s also a desperate ploy?
Vick (37:11): Assessing the quarterback’s contrition 13 years after he pleaded guilty to a dogfighting charge.
Afterball (58:02): Stefan on one of Bobby Knight’s most memorable meltdowns.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:12.5 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 10th, 2020. |
| 0:16.4 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the debut weekend for the new XFL. |
| 0:21.8 | Winners were the Houston Roughnecks, D.C. Defenders, New York Guardians, and your St. Louis Battlehawks |
| 0:27.8 | with the age capitalized. We'll also discuss the Houston Rockets' latest effort to revolutionize |
| 0:33.9 | the NBA, a move to extreme small ball. Finally, we'll review the latest entry in ESPN's |
| 0:40.8 | 30 for 30 series, a two-part documentary on Michael Vick. Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio, |
| 0:47.4 | the author of The Books, Word Freak, and A Few Seconds of Panic and the bard of the original XFL. |
| 0:55.4 | Stefan Fatsas, hey, Stefan. |
| 0:56.8 | I like that new title, Josh. |
| 0:58.5 | We'll get into that momentarily, your XFL writing career. |
| 1:02.6 | With us from Los Angeles today, it's Slate staff writer and the host of Slow Burn season |
| 1:09.0 | three. |
| 1:10.2 | Joel Anderson. |
| 1:12.8 | Hey, Joel. Good morning or afternoon. |
| 1:16.8 | Well, I guess it's still morning where you all are. So good morning. Thank you. And you've got more Slow Burn tour dates this week, L.A. on Tuesday, the 11th in San Francisco on Thursday. The 13th, |
| 1:25.2 | Stefan and I were both at the DC show, which was amazing. |
| 1:29.1 | It was a really, really good show and a good time. So if there are folks on the West Coast who are |
| 1:34.2 | considering going in L.A. on Tuesday or San Francisco on Thursday, I would highly encourage you to |
| 1:40.5 | attend. We did not pay Josh to say that. He said it's all of his own free will. |
| 1:45.2 | And it's somebody who is notoriously self-deprecating. I will say that the show's went really well. |
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