The I’m Kevin Durant Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss NBA playoff beefs with Slate’s Nick Greene. ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski joins to talk about the NHL playoffs. Finally, Sports Illustrated’s Jack Dickey assesses Jeopardy! genius James Holzhauer. NBA beefs (4:07): Durant vs. Beverley.Dudley vs. Simmons. Westbrook vs. Lillard. What’s the best NBA beef, and which postseason beef needs more seasoning? NHL playoffs (24:12): How did the Tampa Bay Lightning get bounced after putting together one of the best regular seasons ever? James Holzhauer (40:52): The secrets of the quiz-show savant who’s destroying the Jeopardy! record books. Afterballs (57:09): Stefan on Kate Smith and the Flyers and Josh on the first player to palm a basketball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast
0:02.0	podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's
0:10.0	Sports Podcast hang-up and Listen for the week of April
0:16.1	22nd, 2019. On this week's show, Slates Nick Green will join us to talk about NBA playoff beef. We've got Ben Simmons versus
0:25.1	Jared Dudley, Kevin Durant versus Patrick Beverly, and everyone's favorite Russell Westbrook versus Earth.
0:31.8	E-SPans Greg Wasinski will also be here to discuss the bloodbath in the NFL playoffs,
0:37.8	both the metaphorical one and the one that you get when Alex Ovechkin punches a guy.
0:43.5	Finally, Sports Illustrated writer and two-time Jeopardy champ Jack Dickie
0:48.5	will help us assess the man, the machine, the moneymaker, James Holtzauer, who's smashing game show records at a furious pace.
0:57.0	Here with me in our Washington DC studio is my co-host Stephen Fatsus,
1:01.0	author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of Panic.
1:04.6	Hello, Stephen.
1:05.6	Hey Josh, you've never tried to go in jeopardy, right?
1:08.9	Have not.
1:09.9	Oh no, I think maybe I did try to get on the high school tournament the teen
1:15.1	tournament and a girl from my high school got on yeah not me I tried to get on who
1:22.3	wants to be a millionaire I never got past the telephone
1:24.6	dial-in phase. Could they tell that you were just annoying on on television?
1:29.5	What is that what they screened for? That is what they screen for.
1:33.0	Yeah.
1:34.0	Or trivia knowledge, one or the other.
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