The Let’s Talk About Serena Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin and guest host Vann Newkirk of the Atlantic are joined by the New Yorker’s Louisa Thomas to discuss Serena Williams and the 2018 U.S. Open final. They’re also joined by Slate’s Derreck Johnson to assess LeBron James’ HBO series The Shop. Serena Williams (1:02): What happened in the 2018 U.S. Open final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka, and how we should think about the confrontation between Williams and chair umpire Carlos Ramos. The Shop (44:50): LeBron’s new show debuted with an episode featuring Snoop Dogg, Draymond Green, and Jon Stewart. Is it any good? Afterballs(1:04:05): Vann on men’s doubles and Josh on eight-peats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:34.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's
0:42.0	Sports Podcast Hangup and Listen for the week of September 10th, 2018.
0:46.0	On this week show, the New Yorkers Louisa Thomas will join us to talk about what happened in the 2018 U.S. Open Final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka
0:55.0	and how we should think about the confrontation between Williams and Chair Umpire
0:58.8	Carlos Ramos. Our slate colleague Derek Johnson will also join the program to help us review
1:04.7	LeBron James's new HBO series The Shop. Stephen Fatis is out this week joining me in
1:11.6	our Washington DC studio, one of my favorite writers, Van Newkirk, the second of the Atlantic.
1:17.4	How's it going, Van.
1:18.4	I'm doing well, thanks for having me.
1:20.1	Very excited to have you.
1:22.3	I kind of want to just get right into this Serena Osaka conversation because I know we have a lot to say.
1:28.0	Oh yeah, it was a wild weekend.
1:32.0	On Saturday, Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams 6-64 to win the 2018 U.S. Open title, her first Grand Slam victory.
1:42.8	And also a whole lot of other stuff happened.
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