Hang Up: The Blind Side’s Blind Spots

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis are joined by Yahoo Sports’ Henry Bushnell to talk about Spain’s Women’s World Cup victory and the turmoil that preceded it. The New York Times’ Kurt Streeter joins to discuss the controversy over The Blind Side. Finally, ESPN’s Luis Miguel Echegaray assesses Lionel Messi’s brilliant opening month with Inter Miami. Spain (3:27): The story behind La Roja’s World Cup win and everything that came before. The Blind Side (28:12): Revisiting the book and the movie in light of Michael Oher’s allegations. Messi (52:56): Could anyone have imagined that his transition to America would go this well this quickly? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see.
0:21.7	Hi, I'm Josh Levine and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 21st at 2023.
0:26.8	On this week's show Yahoo Sports's Henry Bushnell will join us to talk about Spain's win
0:31.1	in the Women's World Cup and the bitter conflict between Spanish players and their own federation
0:36.1	that preceded it. The New York Times's Kurt Streeter will also come on to talk about the
0:40.4	controversy over the blind side and Michael Orr's claim that the white family who took him in
0:45.5	also took advantage of him financially. And finally, ESPN's Luis Miguel Ishecaray will tell us
0:51.2	about interviewing Lionel Messi, who I think just scored another goal. I'm in Washington, DC,
0:57.9	and I am the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One Year. Also in DC is Stefan Fatsis.
1:04.0	He's the author of the book's word freak. He sings a panic and wild and outside. Hella, Stefan.
1:09.0	Hey, yeah, you're right. I think I think Messi's in my backyard. He scored, he scored another goal.
1:13.3	Yeah. I think that by the time this comes out, Stefan, the trailer for One Year, the new season
1:20.0	is going to be out. It shows coming out next week. It's, it's not been an instant publicly the time
1:24.3	I'm recording this. So hopefully, when this is published this evening, it will be out. But if it's not
1:31.1	enjoy this first public announcement of One Year, 1955 coming everywhere, you can listen to podcasts.
1:38.9	August 31st. And the first story we're doing is a sports story. So you'll probably be hearing about
1:45.4	more from me and maybe from Stefan in the days to come. Get pumped, Stefan. I'm sorry,
1:51.9	congratulations. Can't wait. I wanted to say a quick hello to our listeners on Stitcher. As you
1:57.2	may have heard, the Stitcher app is going away forever on August 29th. But if you're not, you'll still
2:03.7	be able to find us. Listen and subscribe to hang up and listen on Apple podcasts on Spotify,
2:09.3	on Amazon Music, or anywhere else you find podcasts. And thanks so much for being a loyal listener.
2:14.9	In our bonus segment, first slate plus members this week, Stefan and I are going to continue the
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