Hang Up and Listen - Where Is Peng Shuai?
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham to talk about Peng Shuai and the future of sports in China. Next, they discuss the resurgent Golden State Warriors. Finally, they review the movie King Richard.
Peng Shuai (2:03): Will the Peng case lead the WTA to pull out of China?
Warriors (24:35): How Steph Curry’s squad got its mojo back.
King Richard (42:42): Is the new movie about the Williams sisters’ upbringing any good?
Afterball (1:02:00): Josh on watching (or not watching) the 1980 Summer Olympics on American TV.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | Hide your children. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 22nd, 2021. |
| 0:24.7 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the ripple effects in both sports and politics of the sexual assault allegation leveled by Chinese tennis player, Pung Shui. |
| 0:33.9 | We'll also discuss the resurgence of the Golden State Warriors. |
| 0:37.4 | Remember them? |
| 0:38.3 | Nice little NBA team. |
| 0:39.3 | Won a couple titles. |
| 0:40.3 | Maurice Spates used to play there. |
| 0:42.3 | And finally, we'll review King Richard, the new movie starring Will Smith as Venus and |
| 0:48.3 | Serena Williams' dad. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm the author of the Queen and the host of the podcast One Year. Season 2 on 1995, out now. Please subscribe. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic and Wild and Outside. Hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh. What do you got on your shirt today? Ken Griffey Jr., swinging. |
| 1:09.9 | Oh, nice. |
| 1:11.5 | That's sweet. |
| 1:14.8 | Because he had a sweet swing, worthy of a T-shirt. |
| 1:16.9 | I can't argue there. |
| 1:21.5 | Joel Anderson is off this week, but that in no way reduces, |
| 1:26.4 | perhaps even increases the imperative to listen to Slow Burn season six on the L.A. Riots, which is excellent and will remain excellent all the way through. So get on that. |
| 1:30.3 | Filling in this week, tang up legend, staff writer, co-theater critic for The New Yorker, still shaking off the effects of Alex Caruso's tight defense on Sunday night. It's Vincent Cunningham. Great to have you here, my friend. |
| 1:43.3 | Great to be here. |
| 1:45.0 | I resent the Caruso talk immensely, but otherwise happy to see it. Early this month, |
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