Hang Up and Listen - Who Is Jerry Jones?
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🗓️ 28 November 2022
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by journalist Meg Swanick to preview the U.S. men’s soccer team’s matchup against Iran. Ben Mathis-Lilley, the author of The Hot Seat, also joins to discuss Michigan’s win over Ohio State. Finally, they talk about the Washington Post’s feature on Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
USA-Iran (4:09): The on-field and off-field implications of the USMNT’s big game.
Michigan-Ohio State (25:53): How the Wolverines took down the Buckeyes again.
Jerry Jones (46:30): How much responsibility does he bear for the NFL’s diversity problems?
Afterball (1:07:46): Joel on the resignation of Stanford football coach David Shaw.
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| 0:00.0 | Hang up and listen fans. People who are listening for the first time might hear a bad word or two. |
| 0:19.2 | Hi I'm Josh Levine, Flates National Editor and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of November |
| 0:23.4 | 28th, 2022. On this week's show, journalist Meg Swanek will join us to talk about the U.S. |
| 0:29.0 | men's national teams, big match up against Iran and what it means on and off the field. Our |
| 0:34.9 | sleep colleague and author of the hot seat Ben Mathis Lilly will also be here to revel in Michigan's |
| 0:40.3 | second straight win over Ohio State and finally we'll discuss the Washington Post's big feature |
| 0:45.7 | on Cowboys owner Jerry Jones who has never hired a black head coach and who stood on the steps at |
| 0:51.1 | North Little Rock High as black students tried to integrate his school 65 years ago. I'm in Washington |
| 0:57.2 | DC and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast one year. All episodes of our |
| 1:02.4 | 1942 season are out now including Joel's season finale, The Black Japanese Access. Check it out. |
| 1:09.8 | It's a great episode. Hi Joel, great episode. Thanks, uh, grill team effort there. Glad it's over. |
| 1:18.6 | Move forward. Whatever the next, uh, the next project is but it was a lot of fun. A lot of fun |
| 1:25.6 | working with Josh in the one year team and yeah, I do think that story. Nobody gets to see the rough |
| 1:31.9 | draft or the raggedy draft as I call them but it took two short weeks and we, not that two short |
| 1:38.0 | weeks but it like we really hit hard the last two weeks to get that done and uh, yet I strongly |
| 1:43.5 | encourage you all to listen to it. It's really good. And with us from Washington DC, |
| 1:48.9 | Esteven Fatsis, author of the book's wild and outside word freak and a few seconds of panic and a |
| 1:53.4 | great piece that just went up and slate on Monday about the new Scrabble Dictionary. It's really a |
| 1:59.0 | great piece, Esteven, and it's about how the Scrabble Dictionary is basically |
| 2:03.9 | wholly responsible for like moving American lexicography forward at the stage of human history. |
| 2:10.9 | Yeah, a little bit. I mean, it's the piece like, I wanted to sort of get away from just like, |
| 2:15.7 | oh, look at all these nice new words that are in the dictionary, you know. |
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