Hang Up and Listen - Vin Scully in His Own Words
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin, the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham, and Slate’s Henry Grabar take an audio tour of Vin Scully’s broadcasting career. They also discuss the documentary NYC Point Gods. Finally, Josh interviews tennis players Maxime Cressy and Daria Saville.
Vin Scully (2:36): Eight moments from 66 years in the booth.
NYC Point Gods (33:11): Is the new basketball documentary worth watching?
Tennis (48:33): Conversations with two of the most fascinating players on tour.
Afterball (1:16:42): Josh on the Shammgodd—or is it the Pooh Allen?
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| 0:29.6 | The following podcast contains explicit language including the the words, well, you'll just have to wait and see. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 8, |
| 0:54.8 | 2022. |
| 0:56.5 | On this week's show, on the occasion of Ben Scully's death at the age of 94, we'll take an audio |
| 1:01.7 | tour of the broadcaster's life and career. We'll also review the Showtime documentary |
| 1:06.7 | NYC Point Gods on the great New York City Guards of the 80s and 90s, from Kenny Smith to God Sham God. And finally I've got a couple of |
| 1:15.1 | interviews with tennis players the French American servant Valier Maxime Cressy |
| 1:19.3 | and Daria Savile who was born in Russia |
| 1:22.8 | and now represents Australia. |
| 1:25.3 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:26.5 | and I'm the author of The Queen |
| 1:28.1 | and the host of the podcast, One Year. |
| 1:30.4 | Joining me this week, Vincent Cunningham. He's a staff writer and theater critic for the New Yorker. |
| 1:35.2 | And he promised us he was going to watch the movie Hustle. I think it was seven times by the end of June. |
| 1:40.7 | And so it's past time that we checked in on that |
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